Synthesis and Performance Evaluation of a High-Temperature Salt-Resistant Fluid Loss Additive
Yuhuan Ding, Xian Wu, Cheng Ma, Chao Yang, Jinghui Zhang · 2025
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Yuhuan Ding, Xian Wu, Cheng Ma, Chao Yang, and Jinghui Zhang published a study in 2025 on drilling fluids. Deep oil and gas wells are hot and salty, and the fluids used there must not leak into the rock. Standard polymer additives wilt under such harsh conditions.
The team built a new additive with a hard mineral core wrapped in a polymer shell. Tests confirmed the shell formed well and held up to heat. After baking at two hundred degrees and soaking in strong salt water, the additive still held fluid loss low. It cut fluid loss by more than ninety-five percent versus the plain fluid. A standard rival additive failed under the same abuse while the new one stayed well within limits. The shell plugs tiny pores in the filter cake, the authors show.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yuhuan Ding, Xian Wu, Cheng Ma, Chao Yang, Jinghui Zhang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 36 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |