Research on High Water Absorbent Resin for Leak Prevention and Sealing in Water-based Drilling Fluid

doi:10.11885/j.issn.1674-5086.2024.07.03.02

Abstract

Abstract: To address the problem of wellbore leakage caused by clay particles and natural fractures in shale oil and gas reservoirs using water-based drilling fluids, which cannot be successfully plugged, acrylic acid and polyvinyl alcohol are used as monomers, N, N'-methylene bisacrylamide is used as a chemical crosslinking agent, and the response surface method is adopted with water absorption rate as the response target. The experimental factors are optimized, and a PAA/PVA interpenetrating network structure high water absorbent resin plugging agent is prepared through free radical solution polymerization. The successful synthesis and thermal stability of the plugging agent were verified by infrared, thermogravimetric, and scanning electron microscopy analysis. Evaluate the pressure sealing performance of the plugging agent through sealing and pressure bearing capacity experiments, sand bed experiments, and micro crack simulation experiments. The test results show that the plugging agent has good thermal stability. Under the conditions of a fracture width of 2 mm, a temperature of 180 ℃, a plugging agent dosage of 3%, and a confining pressure of 10 MPa, the maximum pressure bearing capacity is 6.08 MPa, and the high-temperature and high-pressure filtration loss is 9 mL. It can achieve the plugging effect of water-based drilling fluid in shale formations.

Key words: shale, plugging, high water absorbent resin, response surface methodology, water absorption rate

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TE254.6

LUO Pingya, DAI Feng, LIU Yingmin, HE Jianing, BAI Yang. Research on High Water Absorbent Resin for Leak Prevention and Sealing in Water-based Drilling Fluid[J]. Journal of Southwest Petroleum University(Science & Technology Edition), 2025, 47(4): 1-9.

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