Formulação e caracterização de misturas cimentícias secas para poços de petróleo onshore

Abstract

Dry mixtures for oil wells cementing have generated enough interest by the mere fact of collaborating with the cementing operations, once it is only added water in the mixture for obtain the cement slurry. With the intention of verify if the dry mixture properties attend in an effective way the needs which are required in the field, this work aims to formulate dry cementitious mixtures and evaluate the behavior of the mixture when subjected to different times of vibration, and this application focused on onshore oil wells. For this it was designed a column in a cylindrical shape with PVC pipes which the dry mixture was packed, subsequently being vibrated at times of 30, 60 and 120 minutes. Then the column was divided in three sections, and subjected to API test (American Petrolleum Institute) as rheology, loss of filtrate, thickening time, mud balance and compressive strength by ultrasonic method (UCA) to see if there was a difference in the properties of the cementitious slurry after vibration. Slurries were formulated to attend the depths of 400, 800 and 1200 meters for onshore wells. The results demonstrated that the dry mixture had a satisfactory reproducibility, once that didn’t have significant migration of additives to the sections of the column after vibration. This possible migration was measured by the API tests which proved similarities of properties between the optimized slurry and from the column. The results of the granulometric analysis also reinforce the exposed above, since all the components introduced into the dry mixture showed averages values of particle size between two and eleven times greater than the cement. This factor contributed to obtain a homogeneous mixture after vibration, because the larger particle size difficulted a possible migration of additives to lower sections of the column under vibration.