Electrically conductive oil-based drilling fluids
AssigneeHalliburton Energy Services, Inc.
InventorRyan van Zanten
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Abstract
A method of servicing a wellbore comprising placing an oil-based wellbore servicing fluid comprising an electrical conductivity enhancer into the wellbore and logging the wellbore by resistivity imaging. A method of servicing a wellbore comprising introducing an oil-based drilling fluid to a wellbore, identifying a subsection of the wellbore for imaging, introducing to the subsection of the wellbore a oil-based wellbore servicing fluid comprising a carbon nanotube wherein the servicing fluid comprising the electrical conductivity enhancer mixes with the oil-based drilling fluid; and imaging the subsection of the wellbore.
Claims22
A method of servicing a wellbore comprising;
- placing an oil-based wellbore servicing fluid comprising an electrical conductivity enhancer into the wellbore;
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- logging the wellbore by resistivity imaging.
A method of servicing a wellbore comprising;
- introducing an oil-based drilling fluid to a wellbore;
- identifying a subsection of the wellbore for imaging;
- introducing to the subsection of the wellbore a oil-based wellbore servicing fluid comprising a carbon nanotube wherein the servicing fluid comprising the electrical conductivity enhancer mixes with the oil-based drilling fluid;
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- imaging the subsection of the wellbore.
An oil-based wellbore servicing fluid comprising an electrical conductivity enhancer, wherein the oil-based wellbore servicing fluid comprises hydrocarbons, olefins, an internal olefin based oil, mineral oil, kerosene, diesel oil, fuel oil, synthetic oil, a linear or branched paraffin, an ester, an acetal, mixtures of crude oil, derivatives thereof, or combinations thereof;
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- wherein the electrical conductivity enhancer comprises fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, C60 carbon molecules, icosahedral C60 carbon molecules, C72, C84, C96, C108, or C120 single-walled carbon nanotubes, multi-walled carbon nanotubes, or combinations thereof.
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