Open AccessImproving Drilling Fluid Properties at High Pressure Conditions Using Selected Nanomaterials
Author(s) -
Nada Sabah,
Asawer A. Alswasiti,
Massara Salam
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/579/1/012004
Subject(s) - drilling fluid , materials science , lubricity , composite material , rheology , lubricant , nanomaterials , viscosity , drill string , conformable matrix , drilling , petroleum engineering , nanotechnology , metallurgy , engineering
Drilling fluids with conventional lubricants (including solid and liquid lubricants) will produce lubricant film between drill string and wellbore/casing, but this film will not be strong enough to protect the bit bearing surfaces subjected to high load conditions during the drilling operations, resulting in shortening the life of drill bit. In this research, the possibility of using nanomaterials as extreme pressure lubricants was investigated by adding different concentrations (0.02, 0.05 and 0.1) wt. %of TiO 2 nanoparticles (NPs) and Cu NP into water- based mud. The lubricating film strength of water based mud samples under extreme pressure conditions were measured using Extreme Pressure (EP) and Lubricity Tester. With the purpose of getting the best performance from extreme pressure lubricants, the effect of nanomaterials on rheological (including plastic viscosity, yield point, apparent viscosity, and gel strength) and filtration (including filtrate loss volume and mud cake thickness) properties were measured. TiO 2 NPs and Cu NP showed a good enhancement in lubricating film strength under extreme pressure conditions. The maximum value of lubricating film strength increasing percentage (69.6%) was obtained using TiO 2 NPs with concentration of 0.1wt.%.