UltraMARINE

Seawater-base fracturing fluid

APPLICATIONS
■■ Conventional and
unconventional reservoirs
■■ Offshore operations
■■ Bottomhole temperature range
of 175 to 325 degF [80 to 163 degC]
■■ Reservoirs with scaling waters
■■ Applications with brackish water

BENEFITS
■■ Enhanced thermal stability
■■ Simplified offshore operation
■■ Reduced risk of screenout
■■ Developed to avoid scale precipitation
from seawater

FEATURES
■■ Fully compatible with seawater
■■ Compatible with existing equipment
■■ Short-term inorganic scale inhibition
■■ Maximize proppant pack regain conductivity

UltraMARINE fluid simplifies offshore operations and is fully compatible with seawater.

UltraMARINE* seawater-base fracturing fluid is engineered to provide optimized viscosity at bottomhole

conditions to improve fluid performance during the fracturing operations in offshore operations.
It provides effective temporary scale inhibition for application in reservoirs with scaling tendency waters
and mitigates the risk of scale precipitating from the seawater by controlling the pH.

UltraMARINE fluid has a high tolerance to salt content and has been tested in waters with total dissolved
solids (TDS) in excess of 100,000 ppm. UltraMARINE fluid eliminates the dependency in freshwater for
offshore fracturing, and can be used with brackish water for onshore operation in areas where freshwater
availability is limited.
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UltraMARINE fluid 140 at 250 degF
600 300
Viscosity at 100 sec-1, cP and Shear Rate, sec-1

■ Temperature ■ Viscosity ■ Shear rate

500 250

Temperature, degF
400 200

300 150

200 100

100 50

0 0
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140
Time, min
Rheology behavior of UltraMARINE fluid at 250 degF formulated in seawater.

UltraMARINE fluid 145 at 300 degF

100%
90%
80%
Regain Permeability, %

70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0
Conventional borate fluid, UltraMARINE fluid,
freshwater seawater
Regained proppant pack conductivity of UltraMARINE fluid with 45 lbm/1,000 galUS formulated in seawater,
in comparison to conventional borate with 45 lbm/1,000 galUS formulated in freshwater.

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