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Oilfield apparatus comprising swellable elastomers having nanosensors therein and methods of using same in oilfield application

  • US 7,631,697 B2
  • Filed: 11/29/2006
  • Issued: 12/15/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2006
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An apparatus comprising an oilfield element made of a swellable elastomeric composition, wherein the swellable elastomeric composition comprises a man-made swellable elastomer and one or more nanosensors dispersed therein to sense one or more parameters useful in oilfield operations;

  • wherein the man-made elastomer comprises a reaction product of a linear or branched polymer having residual ethylenic unsaturation with an ethylenically unsaturated organic monomer having at least one reactive moiety selected from acid, acid anhydride, acid salt, and mixtures thereof.

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