FRICTION REDUCING AND GELLING AGENT FOR ORGANIC LIQUIDS

摘要

The pressure drop of a confined non-polar organic liquid in motion due to friction is markedly lessened by admixing with the liquid an effective amount of one or more aluminum salts of an aliphatic orthophosphate ester. By increasing the concentration of the aluminum salts of the aliphatic orthophosphate ester so that a gelling quantity is present, the organic liquid can be gelled to provide for example a fracturing fluid for oil and gas wells wherein hard particulate material may be suspended to serve as proppants in the resulting fractures.