Abstract
This present work aims at finding thermodynamics properties of drilling fluids and gas reservoir mixtures to apply in kick simulators. It was adjusted the oil formation volume factor for a methane/ester emulsion mixture at temperatures between 70 and 130ºC. The results showed a good agreement between the experimental and calculated values.
Highlights
The study of drilling fluids represents an important field in Petroleum Engineering, when it comes to the exploration of oil fields, that require a special attention to assure the safety of the drilling well, especially to avoid the phenomenon of blowouts
To help the early prediction of kick events, correlations of thermodynamic properties are adjusted to be after implemented in kick simulators
The values of the mean absolute error (MAE) of the correlation were lower than 0.5% for all studied temperatures, as shown in Chart 1
Summary
The study of drilling fluids represents an important field in Petroleum Engineering, when it comes to the exploration of oil fields, that require a special attention to assure the safety of the drilling well, especially to avoid the phenomenon of blowouts. The correct selection of the drilling fluids, which have the function of cleaning and cooling the drilling bit, carrying cuttings produced in the drilling activities, and maintaining the wellbore secure and stable, contribute to achieving the mentioned purpose of kick detection[1]. Collecting information about the properties of those fluids may be costly and overly complex and, the use of correlations as a function of pressure, temperature and volume can facilitate the study and the progress of this study area, generating compelling results for derived properties such as solubility, compressibility, viscosity, bubble point, density, and formation volume factor of the fluid[2].
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