Enhancement of polymeric water-based drilling fluid properties using nanoparticles

Parizad, Amirhossein; Shahbazi, Khalil; Tanha, Abbas Ayatizadeh

doi:10.1016/j.petrol.2018.06.081

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“…Several researchers have studied the effect of improving the drilling fluid rheology utilizing different drilling fluid additives on enhancing hole cleaning [1][2][3][4]. The effect of adding nanoparticles (NPs) to drilling fluids to improve the rheological properties have been recently investigated [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. A summary of the used nanoparticles along with the improved parameters is shown in Table 1.…”

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Application of nano water-based drilling fluid in improving hole cleaning

Alsaba

Dushaishi

Abbas³

2020

SN Appl. Sci.

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This paper presents a laboratory evaluation to study the effect of adding different nanoparticles on the rheological properties of water-based drilling fluids. Four different nanoparticles including aluminum oxide (Al 2 O 3 ), magnesium oxide (MgO), titanium dioxide (TiO 2 ), and copper oxide (CuO) were added to a 7% bentonite water-based mud at two different concentrations; 0.5% and 1.5% by Vol. The rheological properties including plastic viscosity (PV), yield point (YP), and gel strength, were evaluated using a standard viscometer to quantify the effect of nanoparticle addition by comparing it to the reference drilling fluid containing 7% bentonite. In addition, a parametric study was conducted to better understand the effect of the different parameters including rheological properties, hole size, flow rate, on hole cleaning efficiency. The results show that nanoparticles, in general, have a high potential in improving rheological properties when compared to the reference point. A favorable reduction in the PV up to 50% along with an increase of 231% and 95% in the YP and gels strength, respectively, were observed. The addition of nanoparticles has improved hole cleaning efficiency, when compared to the base case, for up to a maximum of 30% using 0.5% by Vol. of MgO nanoparticles. Also, an improvement by 67% in the hole cleaning was observed with 0.5% MgO for the largest cutting sizes when compared to 7% bentonite. In general, MgO showed the highest improvement in hole cleaning, while TiO 2 resulted in the lowest improvement. The parametric study revealed that rheological properties along with the cutting size have the highest effect on hole cleaning, while the effect of varying the flow rate was minimal when the rheological properties were high. Moreover, the effect of nanoparticles addition on hole cleaning was more pronounced for larger hole sizes with larger cutting sizes when compared to the base case containing 7% bentonite only, which demonstrate the feasibility of using nanoparticles to enhance the hole cleaning.

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Application of nano water-based drilling fluid in improving hole cleaning

Alsaba

Dushaishi

Abbas³

2020

SN Appl. Sci.

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“…Nanoparticles are materials whose size varies from 1 to 100nm [Amanullah et al, 2011;EPA, 2010]. In the last decade, its their application has sought to mitigate problems caused in drilling with water-based fluids, for example, shale stability control [Al-Yasiri et al, 2019;Aftab et al, 2016;Parizad et al, 2018], filtrate control [Barry et al, 2015;Vryzas et al, 2015], improvement of rheological properties Mao et al, 2015], improvement in thermal and electrical conductivity [Ponmani et al, 2014]. Moreover, the use of nanoparticles is economically interesting for drilling fluids, as it requires small amounts of additives to improve the desired property, and the improvement of the fluid results in a lower incidence of problems during operation and consequently shorter operating time [Amanullah et al, 2011].…”

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“…Aftab et al (2016) added zinc nano-oxide in acrylamide to improve rheological parameters and filtrate control. Parizad et al (2018) adds titanium nano-oxide to a mixture of xanthan gum (XG), hydrolyzed polyacrylamide, carboxymethylcellulose, and bentonite to enhance thermal and electrical conductivity, filtrate, shale stability and rheological properties. Ismail et al (2016) added carbon nanotubes in a mixture of Development, v. 9, n. 7, e789974669, 2020 (CC BY 4.0) | ISSN 2525-3409 | DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.33448/rsd-v9i7.4669 polyanionic cellulose and hydrolyzed anionic polyacrylamide to improve rheological properties.…”

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“…In this context, XG, a biopolymer added to drilling fluids since 1970 [Caenn et al, 2014;Kelco, 2000] still has great potential in the nanofluids development. Generally adopted as a fluid additive based on clay [Cheraghian, 2017] or in mixtures with other biopolymers [Parizad et al, 2018], its improvement by nanoparticles for the nanofluids development has been little explored. Srivatsa and Ziaja (2012) added nanosilica to XG solutions for filtrate control.…”

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Rheological assessment of the interaction between hydrophobic nanoclay and xanthan gum in saline environment, for application in drilling nanofluid

Souza

Soares

Rigoli

et al. 2020

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In the last decade, exploration in high temperature and pressure wells has motivated the improvement of drilling fluids with the application of nanoparticles. In this context, nanoclay, the most available of nanoparticles, has been applied in the development of nanofluids, mainly associated with polymers. In parallel, among the polymers used, xanthan gum has been little explored for this purpose. In this work, the interaction between xanthan gum, hydrophobic nanoclay, sodium and calcium chloride and their influence on the rheological parameters of the mixture was evaluated in solution. The influence of temperature and hydration time on the rheological parameters of the mixture was also evaluated. For this purpose, nanoclay was first characterized with XRF, XRD and TGA. Then, a complete factorial design 24 was adopted, varying the concentrations of nanoclay, xanthan, sodium and calcium chlorides. Third, a Doehlert Matrix of the 7x5x3 type was adopted, varying the concentrations of nanoclay, xanthan and temperature, with the concentrations of the constant salts. In the fourth, select the effect of the hydration time on the color rheological parameters. Finally, Conductivity and Potential Zetas of sizes were verified, varying the concentration of the components and the hydration time of the mixtures. It was concluded that the interactions between the components of the mixture do not stabilize; the temperature, the salts have no significant influence on the rheology of the mixture; nanoclay in concentrations not exceeding 5% (m/v) interacts with the Minimum Shear Stress; the rheological parameters stabilize after 96h of hydration.

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“…Nanofluids, which can be simply defined as fluids containing suspended nano-meter sized particles with sizes ranging between 1 and 100 nm, have recently proven their effectiveness for different applications in the oil and gas industry. These applications include improving the rheological properties of drilling fluids (Barry et al 2015;Ponmani et al 2016;Al-Zubaidi et al 2017;Perween et al 2018;Parizad et al 2018;Minakov et al 2018, wellbore strengthening (Nwaoji et al 2013;Contreras et al 2014a, b;Kang et al 2016), cementing (Ahmed et al 2018;Alkhamis and Imqam 2018;Vipulanandan et al 2018), stimulation (Singh et al 2018;Fakoya and Shah 2018), shale stabilization (Sensoy et al 2009;Akhtarmanesh et al 2013;Hoxha et al 2017;Pourkhalil and Nakhaee 2019), and enhanced oil recovery (EOR) (Zargartalebi et al 2014;Abdullahi et al 2019;Ding et al 2018;Suresh et al 2018;Elshawaf 2018;Almohsin et al 2018).…”

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Laboratory evaluation to assess the effectiveness of inhibitive nano-water-based drilling fluids for Zubair shale formation

Alsaba

Marshad

Abbas³

et al. 2019

J Petrol Explor Prod Technol

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While drilling through shale formations, shale hydration, including shale swelling and dispersion, is frequently reported as the main wellbore instability problems, particularly when conventional drilling fluids (water-based) are used. These problems have many adverse effects on the drilling operations resulting in non-productive time. Nanoparticles have been recently introduced as a unique alternative to improve the performance of water-based drilling fluids for shale applications. This paper presents an experimental evaluation to investigate the effectiveness of an inhibitive nano-water-based drilling fluid in reducing the swelling of Zubair shale formation. Well-preserved core samples, which were retrieved from Zubair formation, were characterized using X-ray diffraction, and X-ray fluoresces to quantify the amount of the swelling minerals. Scanning electron microscopy was used to identify the existence of microfractures within the samples. Three different nano-based drilling fluids containing titanium dioxide (TiO 2), copper oxide (CuO), and magnesium oxide (MgO) at two different concentrations (0.5% and 1.5% by vol) were evaluated through a set of tests to assess the shale reactivity in the presence of these nano-based fluids. In addition, the effect of these nanoparticles on the rheological and filtration properties was studied. The results showed that the shale samples contain 41.26% silicon dioxide (SiO 2) and 22.73% aluminum oxide (Al 2 O 3), indicating the presence of smectite and illite. Based on the reactivity tests, fluids containing CuO at 1.5% by vol outperformed the other fluids in terms of reducing the reactivity, where the expansion rate was reduced by 82.7% compared to the reference sample submerged in fresh water. In addition, the addition of nanoparticles resulted in reducing the plastic viscosity, increasing both the yield point and gel strength, and reducing the fluid loss under low-pressure low-temperature conditions.

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Enhancement of polymeric water-based drilling fluid properties using nanoparticles

Cited by 71 publications

References 21 publications

Application of nano water-based drilling fluid in improving hole cleaning

Application of nano water-based drilling fluid in improving hole cleaning

Rheological assessment of the interaction between hydrophobic nanoclay and xanthan gum in saline environment, for application in drilling nanofluid

Laboratory evaluation to assess the effectiveness of inhibitive nano-water-based drilling fluids for Zubair shale formation

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