Converting Waste Vegetable Oil to Emulsifier for Invert-Emulsion Oil Based Mud

Ramasamy, Jothibasu; Amanullah, Md.

doi:10.2523/iptc-19493-ms

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“…(10) The newly developed eco-friendly emulsifier showed better performance than the traditional primary emulsifier used by the industry. (11) The waste vegetable oil ester containing eco-friendly spotting fluid will allow the recovery of a stuck pipe without causing any damage or degradation of the surrounding environments.…”

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“…Worldwide highlights on the benefits and advantages of ecofriendly fluid additives over the non-ecofriendly chemicals and additives have accelerated the research activities around the globe to safeguard the environments, ecosystems, habitats, sensitive marine and terrestrial environments, etc. This is reflected in the increasing research in academics, research organizations, service companies to develop ecofriendly base fluids, readily biodegradable chemicals and polymers, virtually non-toxic additives and fluid components to replace or reduce the use of less eco-friendly additives and chemicals [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. This is manifested by the progressive replacement of diesel by mineral oil, mineral oil by highly refined mineral oil and highly refined mineral oils by synthetic-based oils and the desire to replace the synthetic-based oils by plant or vegetable oils.…”

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Novel Eco-friendly Additives for Aqueous and Non-aqueous Fluid Design

Amanullah¹,

Ramasamy²

2019

JCCE

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The global oil and gas industry has a long standing initiative to develop and use the most environment friendly solutions in the exploration and exploitation of oil and gas resources to prevent any damage or degradation of other marine and terrestrial resources. This is reflected by increasing research in academics, research institutes and organizations around the globe to develop better and more environment friendly base fluids, viscosifiers, fluid loss additives, emulsifiers, lubricants, etc. to protect the local, regional and global environments, ecosystems , habitats and also the OHS of workers and professionals working in the oil and gas industry. This paper describes the development, testing and evaluation of several novel additives to demonstrate their suitability for oil and gas field applications to avoid any negative impact to the surrounding environment. Experimental results indicate that the newly developed additives provide desirable, similar or better performance with respect to conventional additives used by the industry and thus demonstrate their suitability for application in aqueous and non-aqueous fluid design. The plant-based organic additive identified to use as an ecofriendly viscosifier for aqueous mud system can also control the fluid loss behavior of clay free system and thus can act as a bi-functional additive. Several waste vegetable oil-based eco-friendly additives have been developed for their application as spotting fluids, base oil and emulsifiers for invert emulsion oil based mud. These additives have similar or better technical performance than the equivalents and the eco-friendly nature of the mud additives demonstrates their ability to perform the functional tasks with better protection of the surrounding environments.

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Novel Eco-friendly Additives for Aqueous and Non-aqueous Fluid Design

Amanullah¹,

Ramasamy²

2019

JCCE

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“…Ramasamy and Amanullah [31] conducted a comparative study has out by formulating invert emulsion OBM using commercially available emulsifier and the emulsifier derived from used (cooking)/vegetable oil.…”

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Invert Drilling Fluids with High Internal Phase Content

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One of the most important tasks when drilling a borehole is to select the appropriate type of drilling fluid and adjust its properties to the borehole’s conditions. This ensures the safe and effective exploitation of the borehole. Many types of drilling fluids are used to drill holes for crude oil and natural gas. Most often, mainly due to cost and environmental constraints, water-based muds are used. On the other hand, invert drilling fluids are used for drilling holes in difficult geological conditions. The ratio of the oil phase to the water phase in invert drilling fluids the most common ratio being from 70/30 to 90/10. One of the disadvantages of invert drilling fluids is their cost (due to the oil content) and environmental problems related to waste and the management of oily cuttings. This article presents tests of invert drilling fluids with Oil-Water Ratio (OWR) 50/50 to 20/80 which can be used for drilling HPHT wells. The invert drilling fluids properties were examined and their resistance to temperature and pressure was assessed. Their effect on the permeability of reservoir rocks was also determined. The developed invert drilling fluids are characterized by high electrical stability ES above 300 V, and stable rheological parameters and low filtration. Due to the reduced content of the oil, the developed drilling fluid system is more economical and has limited toxicity.

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“…Invert emulsion mud has many advantages such as minimizing corrosion of casing and tubing, efficient in drilling troublesome formations (unstable shale), protecting water-bearing formations, − and lower toxicity compared with the oil-base mud system. It can be stable under extreme conditions of temperature and pressure …”

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Improved Tracking of the Rheological Properties of Max-Bridge Oil-Based Mud Using Artificial Neural Networks

Alsabaa

Elkatatny

2021

ACS Omega

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Lab measurements for the rheological properties of mud are critical for monitoring the drilling fluid functions during the drilling operations. However, these measurements take a long time and might need more than one person to be completed. The main objectives of this research are to implement artificial intelligence for predicting the mud rheology from only Marsh funnel (μ f ) and measuring mud density (ρ m ) easily and quickly on the rig site. For the first time, an artificial neural network (ANN) was used to build different models for predicting the rheological properties of Maxbridge oil-based mud. The properties included the plastic viscosity (μ p ), yield point (γ), flow behavior index (η), and apparent viscosity (μ a ). Field measurements of 383 samples were used to build and optimize the ANN models. The obtained results showed that 32 neurons in the hidden layer and tan sigmoid function transfer function were the best parameters for all ANN models. The training and testing processes of models showed a strong prediction performance with a correlation coefficient (R) greater than 0.91 and an average absolute percentage error (AAPE) less than 5.31%. New empirical correlations were developed based on the optimized weights and biases of the ANN models. The developed empirical correlations were compared with the published correlations, and the comparison results confirmed that the ANN-developed correlations outperformed all previous work.

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Converting Waste Vegetable Oil to Emulsifier for Invert-Emulsion Oil Based Mud

Cited by 13 publications

References 5 publications

Novel Eco-friendly Additives for Aqueous and Non-aqueous Fluid Design

Novel Eco-friendly Additives for Aqueous and Non-aqueous Fluid Design

Invert Drilling Fluids with High Internal Phase Content

Improved Tracking of the Rheological Properties of Max-Bridge Oil-Based Mud Using Artificial Neural Networks

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