Cement compositions comprising sub-micron alumina and associated methods

US8940670B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Rahul Chandrakant Patil · Pune, IN
• B. Raghava Reddy · Pearland, US
• Abhimanyu Pramod Deshpande · Pune, IN
• Christopher L. Gordon · Duncan, US
• Craig W. Roddy · Duncan, US
• Jiten Chatterji · Duncan, US
• Roger S. Cromwell · Walters, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 30, 2012
• Grant date: Jan 27, 2015
• Expiry date: Mar 30, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02W30/91
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Methods and compositions that comprise sub-micron alumina for accelerating setting of a cement composition. An embodiment includes a method of cementing in a subterranean formation. The method may comprise introducing a cement composition into the subterranean formation, wherein the cement composition comprises hydraulic cement, sub-micron alumina, and water. The method further may comprise allowing the cement composition to set in the subterranean formation. Another embodiment includes a cement composition that may comprise hydraulic cement, sub-micron alumina, and water.