US 7,784,542 B2 · Cement compositions comprising latex and a nano-particle and associated methods

Abstract

Methods and compositions are provided that may comprise cement, a nano-particle, latex, and water. An embodiment of the present invention includes a method of cementing in a subterranean formation. The method may include introducing a cement composition into the subterranean formation, wherein the cement composition comprises cement, a nano-particle, latex, and water. The method further may include allowing the cement composition to set in the subterranean formation. Another embodiment of the present invention include a cement composition. The cement composition may comprise cement, a nano-particle, latex, and water.

Claims36

Dependent claims

A method of cementing in a subterranean formation:

introducing a cement composition into the subterranean formation, wherein the cement composition comprises cement, a nano-particle essentially free of silica fume, latex, and water;
and
allowing the cement composition to set in the subterranean formation.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

12/472,561Filed 27 May 2009 · continuation in part

Priority

10 May 2007

Published

US 2009/0236097 A124 Sep 2009

Granted

31 Aug 2010

Term ends

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Classification16 codes

C09K 8/467
Containing inorganic binders, e.g. Portland cement: containing additives for specific purposes
B82Y 30/00
Nanotechnology for materials or surface science
C04B 28/02
Compositions of mortars, concrete or artificial stone, containing inorganic binders or the reaction product of an inorganic and an organic…
C09K 8/426
Compositions for cementing, e.g. for cementing casings into boreholes; Compositions for plugging, e.g. for killing wells: for plugging

Family

Application11/747,002Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 10 May 2007

Application12/426,645Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 20 Apr 2009

US 2009/0236097 A1Pre-grant publication · published 24 Sep 2009

US 7,559,369 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part

US 2008/0277116 A1Published application

US 2010/0096135 A1Published application

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Cement compositions comprising latex and a nano-particle and associated methods

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Abstract

Claims36