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Using 1,2 dimethylimidazole to improve gel thermalstability for wellbore plugging in ultra-high temperature fractured reservoirs

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Pages 852-864 | Received 07 Jul 2021, Accepted 26 Aug 2021, Published online: 20 Sep 2021

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