Study on water-based epoxy resin cementing fluid system

Abstract

Cement-based cementing materials have some disadvantages, such as high brittleness and poor mechanical properties. In the long-term production process of oil and gas wells, it is easy to damage, resulting in annulus pressure and interlayer channeling. However, curable resin-based cementing materials have the advantages of good toughness, high strength, and low elastic modulus, and have the potential as cementing materials. A water-based epoxy resin cementing fluid system suitable for cementing was obtained in this article, which has good toughness and high strength, and can directly replace cement slurry for cementing. When the temperature was 50 °C and 70 °C, the fluidity of water-based epoxy resin cementing fluid system was greater than 18 cm, and the thickening time was 74 minute and 128 minute, respectively. The 28 day compressive strength of the resin cured at 70 °C increased by 276.3% and the tensile strength increased by 117.9% compared with the blank cement paste. Scanning electron microscope test indicated that the matrix of water-based epoxy resin is denser than that of blank cement paste. Fourier transform infrared spectrometer and X-ray diffraction analyses demonstrate that the cured epoxy resin products are not affected by curing age. According to the thermogravimetric results, epoxy resin can be used in high temperature deep well. On the whole, replacing cement with water-based epoxy resin cementing fluid can improve the cementing quality, which has broad application value.

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Keywords:

• Water-based epoxy resin
• cementing fluid
• oil well cement
• performance

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support by the CNPC Science and Technology Project (2021DJ4401). Authors also want to acknowledge the scientific assistance of The Center of Functional Materials for Working Fluids of Oil and Gas Field (SWPU, China) and the project of PetroChina Southwest Oil and Gas Field Company, project name: Study on Influencing Factors of Cementing Cement Sonic Bonding Logging (20210302-14).

Disclosure statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.