Materials with nanomaterials for well operations

Abstract

Wellbore materials with nanomaterial therein, e.g., cements, polymers, composites, shape memory material, swellable material, and epoxies, and systems and methods using such materials, which, in certain aspects, are methods for cementing casing in a wellbore with such cement; the material being heatable material in some aspects, and being one or a combination of electrically resistively heatable material, microwave heatable material, and/or material heatable by the application thereto of a magnetic field. This abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure and is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims, 37 C.F.R. 1.72(b).

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 .- 109 . (canceled) 
     
     
         110 . 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.   
     
     
         111 . The method of  claim 110  wherein solidifying of the primary material is one of hardening, setting, and curing. 
     
     
         112 . The method of  claim 110  wherein the primary material is cement. 
     
     
         113 . The method of  claim 110  wherein the primary material is one of epoxy, two-part epoxy, and epoxy system. 
     
     
         114 . The method of  claim 110  further comprising
 after the primary material has solidified, re-heating the heatable material to again heat the primary material to heat other material adjacent the primary material. 
 
     
     
         115 . The method of  claim 114  wherein the primary material includes a plurality of spaced-apart portions, the method further comprising
 selectively heating each portion. 
 
     
     
         116 . The method of  claim 110  wherein the primary material includes a plurality of spaced-apart portions each of which is heated according to a program which is one of: simultaneously heating all portions; selectively heating a portion or portions; sequentially heating the portions from top to bottom of the wellbore; and sequentially heating the portions from bottom to top of the wellbore. 
     
     
         117 . The method of  claim 110  wherein the heatable material is heated by an energy source, the method further comprising
 heating the heatable material by applying energy to the heatable material the energy source which is one of: power generator; magnetic field apparatus; magnetic field generator; induction coil apparatus; microwave apparatus; microwave generator; a power source at an earth surface; a power source within earth; a power source within the wellbore; a power source within the tubular string; and wherein the tubular string is casing a power source within the casing. 
 
     
     
         118 . The method of  claim 110  wherein the primary material is swellable material, the method further comprising
 swelling the swellable material by heating the swellable material by heating the heatable material. 
 
     
     
         119 . The method of  claim 118  wherein the heatable material is nanomaterial. 
     
     
         120 . The method of  claim 118  wherein the swellable material has nanomaterial therein. 
     
     
         121 . The method of  claim 118  wherein the swellable material has coating material thereon, the coating material containing nanomaterial. 
     
     
         122 . The method of  claim 110  wherein the primary material is shape memory material with nanomaterial therein, thereon, or both. 
     
     
         123 . 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.   
     
     
         124 . The method of  claim 123  further comprising
 heating the secondary material above ground, within a wellbore, within a structure downhole, or within a structure above ground. 
 
     
     
         125 . The method of  claim 123  wherein the material useful in wellbore operations is one of shape memory material and swellable material. 
     
     
         126 . 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.   
     
     
         127 . The material of  claim 126  wherein the nanomaterial is one or a combination of 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. 
     
     
         128 . The material of  claim 126  wherein the material is in pieces, the material further comprising
 a coating on pieces of the material, the coating containing nanomaterial. 
 
     
     
         129 . The material of  claim 126  wherein the pieces have an outer surface and the coating covers one of: less than all of the outer surface; all of the outer surface; or spaced-apart discrete amounts of the outer surface.