Using synthetic acid compositions as alternatives to conventional acids in the oil and gas industry

1. A method of reducing a need to re-acidize a hydrocarbon-containing formation, said method comprising:

providing a composition comprising a HCl and lysine mixture and water; wherein a molar ratio between the HCl and the lysine mixture ranges between 3:1 and 12.5:1, and said composition has an initial pH of less than 1;

injecting said composition downhole at a desired injection rate into said hydrocarbon-containing formation and injecting at a pressure below a fracking pressure of the hydrocarbon-containing formation;

allowing a sufficient period of time for the injected composition to contact said hydrocarbon-containing formation to become a spent acid composition and to subsequently create wormholes in said hydrocarbon-containing formation by dissolving calcium carbonate in said hydrocarbon-containing formation;

maintaining the dissolved calcium carbonate in suspension in the spent acid composition to prevent reprecipitation of the calcium carbonate into said wormholes;

removing the spent acid composition containing the dissolved calcium carbonate from said hydrocarbon-containing formation; and

wherein a pH of the spent acid composition ranges between 4 and 6.