Preparation and property evaluation of a temperature-resistant Zr-crosslinked fracturing fluid

Ming Zhou; Jinfeng Zhang; Zhonghua Zuo; Mao Liao; Peng’ao Peng

Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.96, 121-129, April, 2021

DOI10.1016/j.jiec.2021.01.001 Export Citation

Preparation and property evaluation of a temperature-resistant Zr-crosslinked fracturing fluid

Ming Zhou^{1, 2, †}, Jinfeng Zhang², Zhonghua Zuo², Mao Liao², and Peng’ao Peng²

¹State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, School of New Energy and Materials, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610500, People’s Republic of China
²School of Material Science and Engineering, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610500, People’s Republic of China

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Compared with the traditional water-based fracturing fluid thickener guanidine gum, the price of synthetic polymer is relatively low, and the temperature resistance, shear resistance and viscoelasticity of the formed fracturing fluid are better. Therefore, the fracturing fluid formed by the crosslinking of HPAM and organic metal crosslinker will become one of the hot spots in the research of water-based fracturing fluid. In this paper, zirconium oxychloride, acetic acid and triethanolamine were used as raw materials to prepare organic Zr-crosslinked agent. The polymer gel was formed by crosslinking the organic Zr-crosslinked agent with the acrylamide copolymer KY-5S solution, and the viscosity of the gel with different concentrations was investigated. The performance of the fracturing fluid was evaluated through laboratory experiments. The results showed that the viscosity of the fracturing fluid remained above 100 mPa s at the shear rate of 170 s-1 and after 2 h of shear at 140 °C. When the temperature was 20 °C, the shear stress was 0.1 Pa, and the frequency f varied from 0.1 to 10 Hz, the elastic modulus of fracturing fluid was at least 11.6 Pa, and the viscous modulus was at least 8.54 Pa. At the temperature of 90 °C, when the addition of glue breaker was 0.01 wt%, the longest breaking time was 3 h, and the maximum viscosity of breaking liquid was 4.05 mPa s. The damage rate of core permeability of glue breaker was about 13%. When the temperature was 25 °C and the shear rate was 0-170 s-1, the viscosity of fracturing fluid remained above 200 mPa s.

Keywords:Organic Zr-crosslinked agent;Preparation;Water-based fracturing;Performance evaluation

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