Preparation and investigation of self-healing gel for mitigating circulation loss
Abstract
Lost circulation is a common and complex downhole accident in the process of oil and gas drilling. Traditional bridge plugging material has the limitation of poor adaptability to lost formations. Therefore, this study synthesized a new self-healing plugging material to improve the plugging success rate; specifically, the hydrophobic association polymer lauryl methlacrylate-acrylamide-acrylic acid containing Fe3+ was modified via curdlan to form a composite gel with high strength and self-healing properties. The self-healing time, mechanicalness and rheological properties of the self-healing gel were systematically evaluated. The results showed that the modification of curdlan could significantly improve the mechanical properties and rheological strength of self-healing gel, and the chelating structure formed by Fe3+ and carboxyl groups could further enhance the mechanical properties of the self-healing gel. Toughness and storage modulus of the LF0.15C2 selfhealing gel with the introduction of curdlan and Fe3+ could reach 30.2 kJ/m3 and 3,458 Pa, respectively. Compared with conventional gel materials, composite gels with self-healing properties exhibited better pressure-bearing capacity of 2.5 MPa, and could effectively avoid causing plugging at the entrance of the fractures by high-concentration inert material and improve the pressure-bearing capacity. In addition, the plugging mechanism of the self-healing gel modified via curdlan in formation fractures was analysed in detail. The self-healing gel modified via curdlan prepared in this work has application potential as a lost circulation material in the field of oil and gas drilling.
Document Type: Original article
Cited as: Wang, R., Wang, C., Long, Y., Sun, J., Liu, L., Wang, J. Preparation and investigation of self-healing gel for mitigating circulation loss. Advances in Geo-Energy Research, 2023, 8(2): 112-125. https://doi.org/10.46690/ager.2023.05.05
Keywords:
Self-healing, lost circulation materials, drilling fluid, curdlanReferences
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