support from CNPC Chuanqing Drilling Engineering Company Limited,China;the“academic pass”of Southwest Petroleum University;the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2022M712644)
Considering the increasing environmental pressure,environmentally friendly and high-performance water-based drilling fluids(WBDFs)have been widely studied in recent years to replace the commonly used oil-based drillin...
The authors are thankful to the National Natural Science Foundation of China(U1762212,51904329,41902323);CNPC Science and Technology Project(No.2018A-3907);Shandong Natural Science Foundation(ZR2019BEE002);the Opening Fund of Key Laboratory of Unconventional Oil and Gas Development(China University of Petroleum(East China));Ministry of Education(19CX05005A-7);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.18CX02171A);Scientific Research Foundation for the Introduction of Talents(YJ20170014)。
High-performance water-based drilling fluids(HPWBFs)are essential to wellbore stability in shale gas exploration and development.Laponite is a synthetic hectorite clay composed of disk-shaped nanoparticles.This paper ...
financially supported by the NSF of China(No.41502345)
In this study, laponite was tested as a mud-making material for drilling fluids. Laponite is a synthetic smectite clay with a structure and composition closely resembling the natural clay mineral hectorite. Commercial...