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• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
  • E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
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Definitions

• Cementing is a common well operation.
• hydraulic cement compositions can be used in cementing operations in which a string of pipe, such as casing or liner, is cemented in a wellbore.
• the cemented string of pipe isolates different zones of the wellbore from each other and from the surface.
• Hydraulic cement compositions can be used in primary cementing of the casing or in completion operations. Hydraulic cement compositions can also be utilized in intervention operations, such as in plugging highly permeable zones or fractures in zones that may be producing too much water, plugging cracks or holes in pipe strings, and the like.
• Conventional cements may be less effective in harsh environments, particularly by using sea or brackish water, such as subterranean formations consisting of total losses. Additionally, the quality of the silicalite may also reduce the efficacy of the cement. Therefore, it is necessary to identify a cement slurry that is useful in lost circulation applications, can be mixed easily, and can handle harsh environments.
• a method of cementing a subterranean formation comprises providing a cement composition comprising cementitious material, aqueous base fluid, nanoparticles, synthetic clay, and a thixotropic modifier, wherein the solid materials are about 0 wt% to about 40 wt% of the total weight of the cement composition; introducing the cement composition into a subterranean formation; and allowing the cement composition to set in the subterranean formation.
• the resulting cement has a solid material content of about 10 wt% to about 20 wt% of the total weight of the cement.
• the rheological properties of the cement composition are shear- rate dependent.
• the viscosity of the non-Newtonian fluid decreases with an increase in shear rate.
• the nanoparticles comprise at least one of nano-silica, nanocarbonate, nanoalumina, and any combination thereof.
• the nanoparticles are present in the amount of about 0.1 to about 5.0 gal/sack.
• the nanoparticles have a diameter of about 2 to about 100 microns.
• the synthetic clay is present in an amount of about 0.1% to about 3% by weight of water. Further, in an embodiment, substantially no natural clay is added to the cement composition.
• the thixotropic modifier may be selected from high surface-area silica, fumed silica, sodium silicate, silicic acid and combinations thereof. In some embodiments, the thixotropic modifier is present in the about of about 1% to about 150% bwc. In numerous embodiments, the aqueous base fluid comprises at least one of fresh water; brackish water; saltwater; and combinations thereof, and may be present in the cement composition in an amount of from about 20% to about 80% by weight of cement composition.
• the cement composition may further comprise at least one of resins; latex; stabilizers; silica; pozzolans; microspheres; aqueous superabsorbers; viscosifying agents; suspending agents; dispersing agents; salts; accelerants; surfactants; retardants; defoamers; settling- prevention agents; weighting materials; fluid loss control agents; elastomers; vitrified shale; gas migration control additives; formation conditioning agents; and combinations thereof.
• particulate nano-silica may be utilized in combination with differently sized silica particles in accordance with present embodiments.
• a number of silica particles with particle sizes greater than 100 nm may be included in a cement composition in accordance with present embodiments.
• the particulate nano-silica utilized with present embodiments may have an impact on certain physical characteristics of resulting cements. For example, relative to inclusion of colloidal silica or larger silica particles in a cement slurry, inclusion of particulate nano-silica in the cement slurry may provide improved mechanical properties, such as compressive strength, tensile strength, Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio.
• the particulate nano-silica also may be included in the cement composition as a set accelerator to accelerate the set time of the resultant cement composition.
• nano-materials it may be desirable to utilize other types of nano-materials, in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
• nano-particles include nanoalumina, nanocarbonate, and combinations thereof.
• the nano-particles may be particulate in nature and not, for example, a colloidal nano-particle or a suspension of the nano-particle in solution.
• the present technique also encompasses the use of nano- particles in any of a variety of different subterranean treatments.
• an aqueous base fluid in the cement compositions of the invention is present in an amount sufficient to make a slurry which is pumpable for introduction down hole.
• the aqueous base fluid comprises at least one of fresh water; brackish water; saltwater; and combinations thereof.
• the water may be fresh water, brackish water, saltwater, or any combination thereof.
• the water may be present in the cement composition in an amount of from about 20% to about 95% by weight of cement composition , from about 28% to about 90% by wt. of cement composition, or from about 36% to about 80% by wt. of cement composition.
• Synthetic clays are present in the cement compositions of the invention.
• suitable synthetic clays include, without limitation, layered silicates such as LaponiteTM EP, available from Rockwood Additives Limited, Widnes, Cheshire, UK.
• the cements of the present invention do not include the addition of a natural clay.
• the synthetic clays are present in the amount of about 0.1 to about 3.0 %ww.
• Thixotropic modifiers are present in the cement compositions of the invention.
• suitable thixotropic modifiers include finely divided, high surface-area silica, fumed silica, sodium silicate, silicic acid, and combinations thereof.
• a commercial version is MicroblockTM, available from Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX.
• EconoliteTM is a cement additive, available from Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX, that may also impart thixotropy to a cement slurry.
• cements can be used in the present invention, including cements comprised of calcium, aluminum, silicon, oxygen, and/or sulfur which set and harden by reaction with water.
• hydraulic cements include Portland cements, gypsum cements, high alumina content cements, slag cements, high magnesia content cements, shale cements, acid/base cements, fly ash cements, zeolite cement systems, kiln dust cement systems, microfine cements, metakaolin, pumice and their combinations.
• the suitable API Portland cements are from Classes A, C, H, and G.
• the cement compositions have a slurry density which is pumpable for introduction down hole.
• the density of the cement composition in slurry form is from about 7 pounds per gallon (ppg) to about 20 ppg, from about 8 ppg to about 18 ppg, or from about 9 ppg to about 17 ppg.
• the cement compositions of the invention may contain additives.
• the additives comprise at least one of resins, latex, stabilizers, silica, pozzolans, microspheres, aqueous superabsorbers, viscosifying agents, suspending agents, dispersing agents, salts, accelerants, surfactants, retardants, defoamers, settling-prevention agents, weighting materials, fluid loss control agents, elastomers, vitrified shale, gas migration control additives, formation conditioning agents, and combinations thereof.
• a pump 120 (e.g. , a mud pump) circulates drilling fluid 122 through a feed pipe 124 and to the kelly 110, which conveys the drilling fluid 122 downhole through the interior of the drill string 108 and through one or more orifices in the drill bit 114.
• the drilling fluid 122 is then circulated back to the surface via an annulus 126 defined between the drill string 108 and the walls of the borehole 116.
• the recirculated or spent drilling fluid 122 exits the annulus 126 and may be conveyed to one or more fluid processing unit(s) 128 via an interconnecting flow line 130.
• a "cleaned" drilling fluid 122 is deposited into a nearby retention pit 132 (i.e., a mud pit) . While illustrated as being arranged at the outlet of the wellbore 116 via the annulus 126, those skilled in the art will readily appreciate that the fluid processing unit(s) 128 may be arranged at any other location in the drilling assembly 100 to facilitate its proper function, without departing from the scope of the scope of the disclosure.
• the disclosed cement compositions may directly or indirectly affect the components and equipment of the drilling assembly 100.
• the disclosed cement compositions may directly or indirectly affect the fluid processing unit(s) 128 which may include, but is not limited to, one or more of a shaker (e.g. , shale shaker), a centrifuge, a hydrocyclone, a separator (including magnetic and electrical separators), a desilter, a desander, a separator, a filter (e.g., diatomaceous earth filters), a heat exchanger, any fluid reclamation equipment.
• the fluid processing unit(s) 128 may further include one or more sensors, gauges, pumps, compressors, and the like used store, monitor, regulate, and/or recondition the exemplary cement compositions.
• the disclosed cement compositions may also directly or indirectly affect the various downhole equipment and tools that may come into contact with the cement compositions such as, but not limited to, the drill string 108, any floats, drill collars, mud motors, downhole motors and/or pumps associated with the drill string 108, and any MWD/LWD tools and related telemetry equipment, sensors or distributed sensors associated with the drill string 108.
• the disclosed cement compositions may also directly or indirectly affect any downhole heat exchangers, valves and corresponding actuation devices, tool seals, packers and other wellbore isolation devices or components, and the like associated with the wellbore 116.
• the disclosed cement compositions may also directly or indirectly affect the drill bit 114, which may include, but is not limited to, roller cone bits, PDC bits, natural diamond bits, any hole openers, reamers, coring bits, etc.
• the disclosed cement compositions may also directly or indirectly affect any transport or delivery equipment used to convey the cement compositions to the drilling assembly 100 such as, for example, any transport vessels, conduits, pipelines, trucks, tubulars, and/or pipes used to fluidically move the cement compositions from one location to another, any pumps, compressors, or motors used to drive the cement compositions into motion, any valves or related joints used to regulate the pressure or flow rate of the cement compositions, and any sensors ⁇ i.e. , pressure and temperature), gauges, and/or combinations thereof, and the like.
• any transport or delivery equipment used to convey the cement compositions to the drilling assembly 100
• any transport vessels, conduits, pipelines, trucks, tubulars, and/or pipes used to fluidically move the cement compositions from one location to another
• any pumps, compressors, or motors used to drive the cement compositions into motion
• any valves or related joints used to regulate the pressure or flow rate of the cement compositions
• any sensors ⁇ i.e. , pressure and temperature
• Laponite EP shows good gel strength reading in fresh water as wel l sea water.

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