Evaluación del uso de arcilla organofílica gastada como aditivo reológico para el diseño de un fluido de perforación sintético (SBM) para la sección de producción

Abstract

This work wants to rescue or discard the organophilic clay used in the refining of vegetable oils by reusing it as a material for synthetic drilling fluids preparation.

The research is purely experimental and is based on laboratory tests. Starting from the recovery of worn out organophilic clay and continuing with the elaboration of synthetic drilling mud samples, using biodiesel as the base of the fluid and brine at different concentrations of potassium chloride (KCl). The stability of the emulsion is evaluated to continue with the proposed tests: Density, Funnel Viscosity, Filtration, Solid Content, Rheology, Chlorides and pH. All tests were carried out following the corresponding API regulations. In addition, it includes the registry of bibliographic citations consulted in the development of the work.