Patent ID: 8596360

Claim:
A method of gravel packing a hole in a subterranean formation having a filter cake coated on the surface thereof, comprising: injecting into the hole a gravel pack composition comprising gravel and a carrier fluid comprising a base fluid and at least one alkyl glycoside; wherein the alkyl glycoside has the formula RO—(R′O) x Z y where the letter O represents an oxygen atom; R represents a monovalent alkyl radical containing from 8 to 16 carbon atoms; R′ represents a divalent alkyl radical containing 2 to 4 carbon atoms; x represents the number of oxy-alkylene units in the alkyl glycoside varying from 0 to about 12; Z represents a saccharide moiety containing 5 or 6 carbon atoms, and y represents the number of saccharide units in the glycoside, and is in the range from 1.3 to 1.8.