Materials with nanomaterials for well operations
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Abstract
Wellbore materials with nanomaterial therein, e.g., cements, polymers, composites, shape memory material, swellable material, and epoxies, and systems and methods using such materials, which, in certain aspects, are methods for cementing casing in a wellbore with such cement; the material being heatable material in some aspects, and being one or a combination of electrically resistively heatable material, microwave heatable material, and/or material heatable by the application thereto of a magnetic field. This abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure and is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims, 37 C.F.R. 1.72(b).
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129 Claims
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1-109. -109. (canceled)
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110. A method comprising
making a wellbore in the earth, placing a tubular string in the wellbore, introducing primary material into a space between an exterior of the tubular string and an interior of the wellbore, the primary material containing heatable material, allowing the primary material to solidify, facilitating solidifying of the primary material with heat, the heat generated by applying energy to the heatable material thereby heating the heatable material, wherein the heatable material is one of or a combination of electrically resistively heatable material, microwave heatable material, magnetically heatable material, inductively heatable material, nanotubes, nanographene, nanographene ribbons, transformed nanomaterials, carbon nanomaterials, electrically conductive nanotubes, carbon nanotubes, single-walled nanotubes, multi-walled nanotubes, double walled nanotubes, and surface-modified nanotubes.
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123. A method for applying heat to material useful in wellbore operations, the material in a wellbore or material that is to be introduced into or used within a wellbore, the material to be heated containing secondary material, the secondary material being one of or a combination of resistively heatable electrically conductive material, resistively heatable nanomaterial, inductively heatable material, inductively heatable nanomaterial, microwave heatable material, microwave heatable nanomaterial, and carbon nanomaterial;
- the method including
heating the material useful in wellbore operations by heating the secondary material, said heating of the secondary material done by using apparatus for applying to the secondary material energy to effect heating, the apparatus corresponding to the material, the apparatus being one of power source for applying electric current to the secondary material, magnetic apparatus for applying a magnetic field to the secondary material, and microwave apparatus for applying microwaves to the secondary material; and the heating of the secondary material facilitating one of hardening, setting, and curing of the material useful in wellbore operations. - View Dependent Claims (124, 125)
- the method including
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126. A material with nanomaterial therein, the material comprising one or a combination of shape memory material and swellable material, the material comprising
sufficient nanomaterial dispersed in the material to effect at least one of: - strengthening the material for use in a wellbore, increasing thermal conductivity of the material;
rendering the material signal-conductive; and
rendering the material electrically conductive;the nanomaterial present as 0.1 weight percent to 10 weight percent of the material. - View Dependent Claims (127, 128, 129)
- strengthening the material for use in a wellbore, increasing thermal conductivity of the material;
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