Materials with nanomaterials for well operations

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.

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.

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.