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US 2004O244977A1 (19) United States (12) Patent Application Publication (10) Pub. No.: US 2004/0244977 A1 Luke et al. (43) Pub. Date: Dec. 9, 2004 (54) FLUID LOSSADDITIVES FOR CEMENT which is a continuation-in-part of application No. SLURRIES 10/727,370, filed on Dec. 4, 2003, which is a con tinuation-in-part of application No. 10/686,098, filed (76) Inventors: Karen Luke, Duncan, OK (US); on Oct. 15, 2003, which is a continuation-in-part of Russell M. Fitzgerald, Wauriha, OK application No. 10/623.443, filed on Jul. 18, 2003, (US); Robert S. Taylor, Calgary (CA); which is a continuation-in-part of application No. Keith A. Rispler, Red Deer (CA); Glen 10/315,415, filed on Dec. 10, 2002. C. Fyten, Red Deer (CA) Publication Classification Correspondence Address: CRAG W. RODDY (51) Int. Cl. ............................ C04B 7/00; CO4B 16/00; HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES C04B 16/02; CO4B 24/00; P.O. BOX 1431 E21B 33/13 DUNCAN, OK 73536-0440 (US) (52) U.S. Cl. ........................... 166/292; 106/813; 106/805 (21) Appl. No.: 10/816,034 (57) ABSTRACT (22) Filed: Apr. 1, 2004 Methods for cementing in a Subterranean Zone, which use a cement composition that includes Zeolite, cementitious Related U.S. Application Data material, proportioned fluid loSS control additives and a mixing fluid. Cement compositions containing proportioned (63) Continuation-in-part of application No. 10/795,158, fluid loSS control additives, and methods of making cement filed on Mar. 5, 2004, which is a continuation-in-part compositions containing proportioned fluid loSS control of application No. 10/738,199, filed on Dec. 17, 2003, additives. US 2004/0244977 A1 Dec. 9, 2004 FLUID LOSS ADDITIVES FOR CEMENT additives (FLAS), with a mixing fluid. The cement compo SLURRIES Sition is placed in the Subterranean Zone and allowed to Set therein. The base blend used in Such methods includes CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED Zeolite and at least one cementitious material, and the APPLICATIONS proportioned FLAS include at least a first fluid loss additive having a first molecular weight and at least one Second fluid 0001. This application is a continuation-in-part of prior loSS additive having a Second molecular weight that is leSS application Ser. No. 10/795,158 filed Mar. 5, 2004, the entire than the first molecular weight. The first fluid loss additive disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference, will be hereafter referred to as the “high molecular weight which is a continuation-in-part of prior application Ser. No. FLA” and the second fluid loss additive will be hereafter 10/738,199 filed Dec. 17, 2003, the entire disclosure of referred to as the “low molecular weight FLA'. which is incorporated herein by reference, which is a con tinuation-in-part of prior application Ser. No. 10/727,370 0007 According to certain methods disclosed herein, the filed Dec. 4, 2003, the entire disclosure of which is incor proportionality of the FLAS can be described by a ratio. For porated herein by reference, which is a continuation-in-part example, the proportionality of the FLAS can be expressed of prior application Ser. No. 10/686,098 filed Oct. 15, 2003, as a ratio of the amounts of each FLA, where each amount the entire disclosure of which is incorporated herein by is expressed as a weight percent of the total weight of the reference, which is a continuation-in-part of prior applica base blend (%bwob). Thus, in certain examples described tion Ser. No. 10/623,443 filed Jul. 18, 2003, the entire herein, the proportionality of the FLAS can be described by disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference, and a ratio of about 15:85, of a high molecular weight FLA to a which is a continuation-in-part of prior application Ser. No. low molecular weight FLA. In other examples, the amount 10/315,415, filed Dec. 10, 2002, the entire disclosure of of low molecular weight FLAS present in the base can be which is incorporated herein by reference. increased or decreased, with a complementary increase or decrease in the amount of high molecular weight FLAS. BACKGROUND According to one Such example, the amount of low molecu lar weight FLAS in the base blend decreases to about 0.75% 0002 The present embodiment relates generally to meth bwob, and the amount of high molecular weight FLAS ods and cement compositions for cementing in a Subterra increases to about 0.25% bwob. In such an example, the nean Zone, and more particularly, to cement fluid loSS control proportionality of the FLAS can be described by a ratio of additives, cement compositions containing the additives, about 25:75 of high molecular weight FLAS to low molecu and methods of using the cement compositions. lar weight FLAS. 0.003 Hydraulic cement compositions are commonly uti 0008. In another example, the proportionality of the lized in Subterranean well completion and remedial opera FLAS can be expressed as a ratio of the amount of high tions. For example, hydraulic cement compositions are used molecular weight FLA(s) to the amount of low molecular in primary cementing operations whereby Strings of pipe weight FLA(s), irrespective of the amount each type con Such as casings and liners are cemented in well bores. In tributes to the base blend. Thus, in certain examples performing primary cementing, a hydraulic cement compo described herein, the proportionality of the FLAS can be Sition is pumped into the annular space between the walls of described as a ratio of about 1:5.67, meaning that the amount a wellbore and the exterior Surfaces of a pipe String disposed of low molecular weight FLAS present in the base blend is therein. The cement composition is permitted to Set in the about 5.67 times the amount of high molecular weight FLAS annular space, thereby forming an annular sheath of hard present in the base blend. According to an example where ened Substantially impermeable cement therein, which Sup the amount of low molecular weight FLAS present in the ports and positions the pipe String in the well bore and bonds base blend has been decreased, such as to the 0.75% bwob the exterior Surfaces of the pipe String to the walls of the well described above, and the amount of high molecular weight bore. Hydraulic cement compositions are also utilized in FLAS has been increased, such as to 0.25% bwob described remedial cementing operations Such as plugging highly above, the proportionality of the FLAS can be described by permeable Zones or fractures in well bores, plugging cracks a ratio of about 1:3 of high molecular weight FLAS to low or holes in pipe Strings, and the like. molecular weight FLAS. 0004 Fluid loss control agents are used in cement com 0009. Yet another way to express the proportionality of positions to reduce fluid loSS from the cement compositions the FLAS as a ratio is in terms of their molecular weights. to the permeable formations or Zones into or through which According to certain methods, the high molecular weight the cement compositions are pumped. FLA has a molecular weight in the range of from about 800,000 atomic mass units to about 1,200,000 atomic mass DESCRIPTION units, and the low molecular weight FLA has a molecular weight in the range of from about 100,000 atomic mass units 0005. In carrying out certain methods disclosed herein, to about 300,000 atomic mass units. Thus, in certain cementing is performed in a Subterranean Zone by placing a examples, the proportionality of the FLAS can be described cement composition comprising a mixing fluid, Zeolite, as a ratio of about 12:1, meaning that the molecular weight cementitious material, and proportioned fluid loSS additives of the high molecular weight FLA would be about 12 times (FLAS) as described herein, into the Subterranean Zone and the molecular weight of the low molecular weight FLA. In allowing the cement composition to Set therein. other examples described herein, the proportionality is 0006 According to exemplary methods of sealing a well described as a ratio of about 4:1, meaning that the molecular bore, a cement composition is formed by mixing a cement weight of the high molecular weight FLA is about 4 times mix, which includes a base blend and proportioned fluid loSS the molecular weight of the low molecular weight FLA. In US 2004/0244977 A1 Dec. 9, 2004 Still other examples, the proportionality of the FLAS can be framework of SiO, and AIO in a tetrahedron, which creates described by a ratio of about 2.66:1, meaning that the a very high Surface area. Cations and water molecules are molecular weight of the high molecular weight FLA would entrained into the framework. Thus, all Zeolites may be be about 2.66 times the molecular weight of the low molecu represented by the crystallographic unit cell formula: lar weight FLA 0010. In carrying out other methods disclosed herein, a 0015 where M represents one or more cations such as cement mix is prepared by forming a base blend comprising Na, K, Mg, Ca, Sr, Li or Ba for natural zeolites and NH, Zeolite and at least one cementitious material, and mixing CH-NH., (CH)NH, (CH), N, Ga, Ge and P for manmade the base blend with proportioned fluid loss additives as Zeolites; n represents the cation Valence; the ratio of bia is in described herein. a range of from greater than or equal to 1 to less than or 0.011 Thus, cement compositions and cement mixes as equal to 5; and X represents the moles of water entrained into disclosed herein include proportioned fluid loSS additives the Zeolite framework.