Synthesis and performance evaluation of terpolymer high temperature retarder for oil well cement

Abstract

With the increase of energy demand in the world, the exploration of deep and ultra-deep wells is increasing, which also puts forward higher requirements for cementing quality. Among them, retarder is a key material to ensure the safety of cementing operation. In view of the poor temperature resistance of conventional retarder, this paper introduces temperature-resistant and salt-resistant groups, optimizes the molecular structure design, and uses 2- acrylamido-2-methylpropanesulfonic acid (AMPS), maleic acid (MA) and polycyclic cycloolefin lactam (NX) as monomers to synthesize high temperature resistant retarder (AMN) by free radical aqueous solution polymerization and used as high temperature retarder in oil well cement. The results show that polymer retarder AMN has certain molecular weight and excellent temperature resistance. The performance evaluation results show that AMN has a good retarding effect at 140 °C and has no adverse effect on the development of mechanical strength of cement paste. AMN can solve the problem that conventional retarder is easy to fail at high temperature, and it has a good application prospect in deep and ultra-deep well cementing.

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Keywords:

• Oil well cement
• High temperature retarder
• Thickening time
• Settlement stability

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Funding

The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support by the CNPC Science and Technology Project(2020A-3913). Authors also want to acknowledge the CNPC Science and Technology Project(2021DJ4403) and the scientific assistance of The Center of Functional Materials for Working Fluids of Oil and Gas Field (SWPU, China).