摘要:
Base composition for water-based drilling muds allowing the number and the amount of the other constituents of the mud to be restricted. In addition to the base solvent, fresh water, sea water or salt water, the said base composition comprises scleroglucan as viscosity agent, the mycelium which produced it and bentonite or an equivalent in limited amount.
摘要:
The present inventors found that the addition of scleroglucan, in particular of unrefined scleroglucan, to the water employed as drilling fluid for drilling wells requiring a high flow rate made it possible to limit formation leaching and improved the removal of cuttings.The invention may be applied to drilling of large-diameter wells.
摘要:
The present invention is directed to a process for improving the dispersibility and the filterability of scleroglucan powders, in which a surfactant is incorporated in the coagulated polymer. The powder obtained according to the process has a dispersibility and a filterability after drying of the coagulum which are greatly superior to those of a powder treated after drying with the same quantity of surfactant or of a powder in solution treated with this same quantity of surfactant. The present invention is also directed to methods for preventing the sudden rush of well water into the strata of petroleum fields, to methods for modifying the injection profile, and to methods for improved hydrocarbon recovery from petroleum fields.
摘要:
Process for improving the dispersibility and the filterability of scleroglucan powders, in which a surfactant is incorporated in the coagulated polymer. The powder obtained according to the process has a dispersibility and a filterability after drying of the coagulum which are greatly superior to those of a powder treated after drying with the same quantity of surfactant or of a powder in solution treated with this same quantity of surfactant.
摘要:
A method for drilling deviated or horizontal wells is facilitated by the use of a scleroglucan-containing aqueous drilling mud. The use of such drilling muds is environmentally and economically advantageous over the use of oil-based drilling muds and is superior to the use of other aqueous-based drilling muds in terms of lubricating power and carrying capacity. Preferably the drilling mud contains unrefined scieroglucan.