The environment-friendly water-based drilling fluid system developed for the petroleum development industry cannot successfully withstand temperatures up to 180 °C, and most high temperature-resistant additives with sulfonic acid groups that have been successfully applied to water-based drilling fluid are not good for environmental protection. In order to solve the above technical problems, a non-sulfonated filtrate reducer and viscosity reducer with resistance to high temperature were prepared by using humic acid, lignin and a multifunctional monomer as raw materials. In laboratory experiments, the molecular weights of the FLO-H filtrate reducer and the VR-H viscosity reducer were 5.45 × 105 g/mol and 8.51 × 103 g/mol, respectively, and all of them showed good high-temperature resistance. The API filtration loss of the bentonite-base slurry with 3.0 wt% FLO-H was only 6.2 mL, which indicated that FLO-H had a prominent reduction in filtration loss after aging at high temperature. When the dosage of VR-H was 1.0 wt%, the plastic viscosity of the water-based drilling fluid after aging at 200 °C decreased from 71 mPa·s to 55 mPa·s, which provided excellent dispersion and dilution. The high-temperature and high-density water-based drilling fluid containing the FLO-H filtrate reducer and the VR-H viscosity reducer had good suspension stability and low filtration performance at the high temperature of 200 °C, which can meet the requirements of high-temperature deep well drilling.
Complex wells with high temperature and the presence of carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide acid gas require the use of high-temperature and high-density anti-corrosion cement slurry for cementing operations, and conventional cement slurry does not have the advantages of high density, high-temperature resistance, or corrosion resistance. In order to avoid the severe corrosion of cement slurry by carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide at high temperatures, solid phase particles with different particle sizes are combined with polymer materials to form a dense, high-density, high-temperature- and corrosion-resistant cement slurry. In this paper, we consider the use of manganese ore powder weighting agent, composite high-temperature stabilizer, inorganic preservative slag and organic preservative resin to improve the corrosion resistance of cement slurry, design a high-density cement slurry that is resistant to high temperature and carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide corrosion, and evaluate the performances of the cement slurry at 180 °C. The results show that the manganese ore powder weighting agent effectively improves the density of the cement slurry. Using composite silica fume with different particle sizes as a high-temperature stabilizer can ensure the rheology of the cement slurry and improve the ability of the cement sample to resist high-temperature damage. The use of slag and resin as preservatives can effectively reduce the corrosion degree in cement slurry. The high-temperature corrosion-resistant cement slurry systems with different densities designed using these materials exhibit good rheological properties, with water loss of less than 50 mL and a thickening time of more than four hours. The compressive strength decreased by less than 5.8% after 28 days at high temperatures. After being corroded by hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide (total pressure 30 MPa, 16.7% hydrogen sulfide and 6.7% carbon dioxide) under high temperature (180 °C) for 30 days, the corrosion depth of the cement sample was less than 2 mm, the reduction of compressive strength was low, and the corrosion resistance was strong. These research results can be used for cementing operations of high-temperature oil and gas wells containing hydrogen sulfide and dioxide.
Oil-well cement-based materials have inherent brittleness; therefore, they cannot be directly used to seal oil and gas wells for a long time. To improve the elasticity of oil-well cement-based composites, a flexible epoxy resin system was developed. The flexibility, TG, and SEM of the cured resin system were evaluated. At the same time, the resin was added to oil-well cement-based materials to improve its elasticity. The compressive strength and elastic modulus of resin cement stone were tested, and the microstructure was analyzed by XRD, TG, and SEM/EDS. The results showed that the structure of the cured resin is compact, the thermal decomposition temperature is 243.9 °C, and it can recover its original shape after compression. At the curing age of 28 days, the compressive strength of cement-based composites containing 30% resin decreased by 26.7%, while the elastic modulus significantly decreased by 63.2%, and the elasticity of cement-based composites was significantly improved. The formation of hydration products (e.g., calcium silicate hydrate, and calcium hydroxide) in the resin cement slurry is obviously lower than that of pure cement, which is the reason for the decrease in compressive strength. The flexible structure of polymer particles and polymer film formed by epoxy resin is distributed inside the cement stone, which significantly improves the elasticity of oil-well cement-based composites. The results of this paper are helpful for the design of elastic cement slurry systems.