Magnesium aluminum silicate nanoparticles as a high-performance rheological modifier in water-based drilling fluids

Wang, Kai; Jiang, Guancheng; Liu, Fan; Yang, Lili; Ni, Xiaoxiao; Wang, Jinxi

doi:10.1016/j.clay.2018.05.012

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“…Natural polymers, as fluid loss agents, are always easy to degrade at high temperatures, which leads to their failure. 28 , 29 With the development of nanotechnology, nanomaterials are gradually being studied to reduce the fluid loss of drilling fluids. Nanoparticles have an excellent ability to improve the performance of drilling fluids.…”

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Experimental Study on the Polymer/Graphene Oxide Composite as a Fluid Loss Agent for Water-Based Drilling Fluids

Pang

Zhang

et al. 2021

ACS Omega

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The wellbore instability caused by the penetration of drilling fluids into the formation is a vital problem in the drilling process. In this study, we synthesized a polymer/graphene oxide composite (PAAN-G) as a fluid loss additive in water-based drilling fluids. The three monomers (acrylamide (AM), 2-acrylamide-2-methyl-1-propane sulfonic acid (AMPS), N -vinylpyrrolidone (NVP)) and graphene oxide (GO) were copolymerized using aqueous free radical polymerization. The composition, micromorphology, and thermal stability properties of PAAN-G were characterized by Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). According to the American Petroleum Institute (API) standards, the influence of PAAN-G on the rheological and filtration properties of bentonite-based mud was evaluated. Compared with PAAN, PAAN-0.2G has more stable rheological properties at high temperatures. The experimental results showed that even at a high temperature of 240 °C, PAAN-G can still maintain a stable fluid loss reduction ability. In addition, PAAN-G is also suitable for high-salt formations; it can still obtain satisfactory filtration volume when the concentration of sodium chloride (NaCl) and calcium chloride (CaCl 2 ) reached 25 wt %. Besides, we discussed the fluid loss control mechanism of PAAN-G through particle size distribution and scanning electron microscopy (SEM).

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Experimental Study on the Polymer/Graphene Oxide Composite as a Fluid Loss Agent for Water-Based Drilling Fluids

Pang

Zhang

et al. 2021

ACS Omega

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“…The thermal stability and the rheological properties of drilling fluids have been also enhanced using nanosized layered particles. The rheological tests for drilling fluids containing magnesium aluminum silicate NPs indicated that the shear‐thinning performance, carrying capacity, and gel strength have been significantly improved when compared with base drilling fluids 21 . In addition to the thermal stability, the thermal conductivity is also important property in cooling function of drilling fluids.…”

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Numerical study of cuttings transport of nanoparticle‐based drilling fluid

Al‐Yasiri

Al‐Gailani

Wen

2020

Engineering Reports

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Cuttings transportation from the drill bit, through the annulus, to the surface is one of the most important functions performed by drilling fluid. The prediction of drilling fluid's performance to transport cuttings in the annulus is very complex task due to the presence of numerous parameters. Nanoparticles (NPs) have been recently introduced into drilling fluid to engineer its properties and enhance its performance. Nevertheless, the lifting capacity has not been sufficiently investigated. The understanding of the influence and the mechanisms responsible for the improvement in cuttings transport process can further advance the application of NPs for drilling fluids. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is widely used as a numerical technique in handling complex multiphase flow problems in different operational conditions. The present work has taken the advantages of CFD to computationally analyze the influence of NPs and the effects of various parameters such as drilling fluids rheology, flow rate, pipe rotation, cuttings density, shape, concentration, and drilling fluids-cuttings particle coupling regimes on the cuttings transport in a vertical wellbore. The CFD simulation is carried out by using transient solver of ANSYS-FLUENT commercial code. The dense discrete phase model is used to overcome the main shortcomings of previous Eulerian based approaches. Good agreement has been achieved between the simulation and the published experimental results. It showed that the fluid viscosity and cuttings transport process can be significantly enhanced by adding nanomaterials to the fluid, and the process is highly influenced by cuttings characteristics such as in situ concentration, shape, and density. K E Y W O R D SCFD, cuttings transport, drilling fluids, multiphase flow, nanoparticles, rheology, wellbore Abbreviations: CFD, computational fluid dynamics; DDPM, dense discrete phase model; DEM, discrete element method; HTHP, high temperature and high pressure; LTLP, low temperature and low pressure

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“…The effect of silica (SiO 2 ) (Mahmoud et al 2016(Mahmoud et al , 2018Salih and Bilgesu 2017;Parizad et al 2018;Smith et al 2018;Salih et al 2016;Vryzas et al 2015;Yusof and Hanafi 2015), ferric oxide (Fe 2 O 3 ) (Mahmoud et al 2016(Mahmoud et al , 2017(Mahmoud et al , 2018Vryzas et al 2015;Jung et al 2011;Shakib et al 2016) (Vryzas et al 2016(Vryzas et al , 2018, and clay minerals (Shakib et al 2016;Needaa et al 2016) nanoparticles on filtration properties of water-based drilling fluid is investigated. The other types of nanoparticles as multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) (Ismail et al 2014(Ismail et al , 2016, iron oxide/clay hybrid (ICH) (Barry et al 2015), aluminosilicate/clay hybrid (ASCH) (Barry et al 2015), titanium oxide/polyacrylamide nanocomposite (Sadeghalvaad and Sabbaghi 2015), clay/silica nanocomposite (Cheraghian et al 2018), nano-sized layered magnesium aluminum silicate (MAS) (Wang et al 2018) are also utilized for this purpose. Also, the effects of nanoparticles along with the polymers, surfactants, and polymer-surfactant are dealt with in some other works (Fakoya and Shah 2018;Srivatsa and Ziaja 2011;Ahmad et al 2017).…”

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A comprehensive modeling in predicting the effect of various nanoparticles on filtration volume of water-based drilling fluids

Golsefatan

Shahbazi

2019

J Petrol Explor Prod Technol

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Filtration volume of drilling fluid is directly associated with the amount of formation damage in hydrocarbon reservoirs. Many different additives are added to the drilling fluid in order to minimize the filtration volume. Nanoparticles have been utilized recently to improve the filtration properties of drilling fluids. Up to now, no model has yet been presented to investigate the effect of nanoparticles on filtration properties of drilling fluids. The impact of various nanoparticles is investigated in this study. Artificial neural network is used as a powerful tool to develop a novel approach to predict the effect of various nanoparticles on filtration volume. Model evaluation is performed by calculating the statistical parameters. The obtained results by the model and the experimental results are in an excellent agreement with average absolute relative error of 2.6636%, correlation coefficient (R 2) of 0.9928, and mean square error of 0.4797 for overall data. The statistical results showed that the proposed model is able to predict the amount of filtration volume with high precision. Furthermore, the sensitivity analysis on the input parameters demonstrated that nanoparticle concentration has the highest effect on filtration volume and should be considered by researchers during process optimization.

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Magnesium aluminum silicate nanoparticles as a high-performance rheological modifier in water-based drilling fluids

Cited by 57 publications

References 37 publications

Experimental Study on the Polymer/Graphene Oxide Composite as a Fluid Loss Agent for Water-Based Drilling Fluids

Experimental Study on the Polymer/Graphene Oxide Composite as a Fluid Loss Agent for Water-Based Drilling Fluids

Numerical study of cuttings transport of nanoparticle‐based drilling fluid

A comprehensive modeling in predicting the effect of various nanoparticles on filtration volume of water-based drilling fluids

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