Patent 11286415 was granted and assigned to Halliburton on March, 2022 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Compositions and methods for removing scales within a subterranean environment are provided. The method includes placing a treatment fluid into the subterranean environment containing oil-laden scales and dissolving the oil-laden scales by contacting the treatment fluid to the oil-laden scales. The treatment fluid contains a solvent mixture containing a pyrrolidone and a terpene, an emulsifier, and a chelate mixture containing hydrochloric acid and a chelating agent that contains methylglycine diacetate.