Thesis (Professional Degree)--University of Missouri, School of Mines and Metallurgy, 1949. / The entire thesis text is included in file. Typescript. Title from title screen of thesis/dissertation PDF file (viewed July 8, 2010) Includes bibliographical references (p. 47) and index (p. 48-52).

[pt] Após a perfuração de poços de petróleo, a lama utilizada na remoção de cascalho, lubrificação e resfriamento da broca deve ser removida e substituída por uma mistura de cimento. Essa substituição se dá pelo deslocamento de um fluido por outro no espaço anular entre a formação rochosa e a coluna de completação ou revestimento. A mistura de cimento tem a função de garantir a estabilidade estrutural do poço evitando danos ambientais e prejuízos econômicos. Para melhores resultados do processo de cimentação, utilizam-se fluidos intermediários, também chamados de colchões lavadores e espaçadores, entre os fluidos principais. A boa qualidade do deslocamento dos fluidos pode ser avaliada pela forma da interface entre eles. Perfis mais acentuados sugerem um atravessamento indesejável do fluido deslocante (cimento) através do deslocado (fluido de perfuração). Por outro lado, perfis achatados indicam um deslocamento mais eficiente. Neste trabalho foi feita uma análise experimental e numérica do processo de cimentação, investigando a forma da interface e a eficiência do deslocamento dos fluidos. Uma planta experimental vertical foi construída, simulando um processo de deslocamento de fluidos em anulares excêntricos de poços. Com uma câmera digital CCD foram filmadas as interfaces entre os fluidos durante o escoamento e com essas imagens puderam-se comparar os resultados com as simulações numéricas realizadas num softw are comercial, usando o método de volumes finitos. Foram analisados os efeitos de diferentes parâmetros como a excentricidade, o regime de escoamento, e, principalmente o comportamento mecânico dos fluidos envolvidos (reologia) na eficiência do deslocamento. Com base nesses resultados é possível prever quais parâmetros operacionais otimizam o processo de deslocamento. / [en] In cementing processes of oil wells, the mud formerly used to drag the gravel, to lubricate and to cool the drill is removed and substituted by a cement mixture. This substitution is obtained by the displacement of a fluid by another in the annulus between the rock formation and the casing. For best results of cementing process, intermediate fluids, also called spacers, are used between the drill mud and the cement mixture. The displacement process is very complex due to geometry and fluids characteristics. The annular space is eccentric in most cases, and both drilling mud and cement mixtures are non-Newtonian fluids. In this work, an experimental and numerical study is performed to analyze this process. A vertical experimental plant was constructed to simulate the fluid displacement through eccentric annuli. The interface shapes between two adjacent fluids were visualized using a digital CCD camera. The images were compared with the results obtained in the numerical simulations. The numerical solution was obtained via the Finite Volume technique and using the Volume-of-Fluid method. The effects of eccentricity, displacement velocity and rheological parameters on the displacement e± ciency were investigated. Based on these results we can predict the liquid characteristics and the operational parameters that optimize the displacement process.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references and index.

[pt] O estudo de escoamentos no espaço anular é de fundamental importância para a compreensão do processo de cimentação de poços. A lama de perfuração deve possuir propriedades reológicas tais que garantam um bom desempenho na lubrificação/ resfriamento das brocas, no carreamento de cascalho até a superfície, bem como na manutenção da pressão do poço através da coluna hidrostática. Durante o processo de cimentação, esta lama deve ser removida e substituída por uma pasta de cimento. O cimento tem a função de revestir a parede da formação, promovendo estabilidade mecânica e prevenindo infiltrações. O processo de substituição ocorre pelo deslocamento de um fluido por outro no espaço anular entre a formação rochosa e o revestimento. Para melhorar o processo de cimentação, utilizam-se fluidos intermediários (colchões lavadores ou espaçadores), entre os fluidos principais. Deste modo, é importante conhecer o efeito da reologia de tais fluidos sobre o processo de deslocamento. Lama de perfuração e pasta de cimento têm comportamento viscoplástico. Tais materiais possuem uma tensão limite de escoamento, abaixo da qual sua viscosidade é extremamente elevada. Entretanto, após este limite, estes materiais passam a ter comportamento pseudoplástico, isto é, a viscosidade decresce em função da taxa de deformação. Colchão lavador apresenta comportamento newtoniano. Foi utilizado o modelo reológico SMD (Souza Mendes e Dutra) para descrever a viscosidade dos fluidos não newtonianos. Nesse trabalho foi analisado numericamente o processo de deslocamento de um fluido por outro em geometria horizontal não retilínea. A perfuração de poços horizontais utiliza técnicas para alterar a direção da broca, onde a aplicação de forças corrige o direcionamento da broca. Entretanto, é obtido um perfil senoidal após a perfuração, devido à técnica de compensação vertical da direção. A geometria analisada será desenvolvida em ziguezague, para representar esta característica. Para simular o processo de deslocamento tridimensional foi utilizado um software comercial baseado na técnica dos volumes finitos, e o método VOF (Volume of Fluid). Foram estudadas duas etapas do processo. Na primeira situação, o fluido deslocador (não newtoniano) simula a pasta de cimento enquanto o deslocado (newtoniano) simula o colchão espaçador. Na segunda situação, o fluido deslocador (newtoniano) simula o colchão espaçador enquanto o deslocado (não newtoniano) simula a lama de perfuração. A forma da interface entre os fluidos foi analisada variando-se as propriedades reológicas e a vazão, para determinar a eficiência do deslocamento. Perfis pontiagudos sugerem uma indesejável deficiência de remoção do fluido deslocado. Por outro lado, perfis achatados indicam um deslocamento mais eficiente. Com base nesses resultados foi possível prever quais parâmetros operacionais aperfeiçoam o processo de deslocamento. / [en] The study of flows in the annulus is essential for the understanding of the cementing process of oil wells. The drilling mud must have rheological properties to guarantee a good performance in the drill lubricating/ cooling, dragging cuttings until the surface, as well as keeping the well pressure due the hydrostatic column. During the cementing, this mud must be removed and substituted by cement slurry. The cement has the function to coat the wall of the formation, promoting the mechanical stability and preventing infiltrations. The process of substitution occurs by the displacement of a fluid by another one in the annulus between the rock formation and the casing. To improve the cementing process, intermediate fluids (washing or spacers) are used between the drilling mud and the cement slurry. Therefore, it is important to know the effect of the rheology of such fluids on the displacement process. Drilling mud and cement slurry have a viscoplastic behavior. Such materials have yield stress, below which the viscosity is extremely high. However, after this limit, these materials have pseudoplastic behavior, that is, viscosity decreases as a function of the deformation rate. The washing fluid presents newtonian behavior. The rheological model SMD (Souza Mendes and Dutra) was used to describe the viscosity of the non-newtonian fluids. In this work, the process of displacement of a fluid for another one in non-straight horizontal wellbore was numerically analyzed. The drilling of horizontal wells uses a rotary steering technique aiming the drill positioning, adjusting the steering vector. However, a sine profile drilling is gotten, due to the technique of vertical compensation of the direction. Analyzed geometry will be developed in zigzag, to represent this behavior. It was used a commercial software to simulate the tree-dimensional displacement process, using the finite-volume technique, and the VOF (Volume of Fluid) method. Two steps of the process had been studied. In the first situation, the displacer fluid (non-newtonian) simulates the cement slurry while the displaced (newtonian) simulates the spacer fluid. In the second situation, the displacer fluid (newtonian) simulates the spacer fluid while the displaced (non-newtonian) simulates the drilling mud. The interface shape between the fluids has being evaluated varying the rheological properties and the flow, to determine the displacement efficiency. Accented profiles suggest an undesirable fingering of the displacer fluid through the displaced one. On the other hand, flattened profiles indicate a more efficient displacement. Based on these results, it was possible to predict which operational parameters optimize the displacement process.

[pt] Este estudo tem como objetivo avaliar a influência do desenvolvimento das propriedades mecânicas da pasta de cimento na integridade do poço de petróleo. Um modelo numérico foi desenvolvido para simular as diferentes fases de construção de poços, tais como perfuração, ação da fluência, reconstrução do revestimento e a hidratação do cimento. O comportamento da fluência do sal foi modelado através uma metodologia que combina o Duplo Mecanismo e a Lei da Potência. Duas fases foram consideradas para a pasta de cimento. Em primeiro lugar, a pasta de cimento foi idealizada como um fluido com um campo de tensão hidrostática. Durante as primeiras cinco horas após a cimentação, uma diminuição do campo de tensão hidrostática foi utilizada a fim de simular a retração autógena e a perda de água no processo. Quando a pasta de cimento foi considerada como elástico com um módulo de rigidez crescente ao longo do tempo quando solidificada. Na mudança de fase do fluido para sólido, um cuidado especial foi dado aos elementos que representam a pasta de cimento hidratada a fim de evitar a sobreposição de malhas. A nova lei de fluência do sal apresentou resultados precisos quando comparado aos valores obtidos em campo e a outros dados encontrados na literatura. No processo de hidratação, a redução das dimensões anulares foi observada. A taxa de deformação diminuiu com o aumento do módulo de rigidez da pasta de cimento. Mais importante ainda, esta deformação foi insignificante quando comparada com as dimensões do poço. Assim, a solidificação do cimento pode ser desconsiderada em simulações expeditas. / [en] The quality of the cement sheath plays a crucial role in the integrity of the oil well. This study aims at assessing the influence of cement hardening on deformations and stresses to which the sheath is submitted. A numerical model was developed to simulate the different stages of well construction such as drilling, creep action, casing reconstruction and - the focus herein - cement hardening. The salt creep behavior was modeled through a new methodology that combines the Double Mechanism with the Power Law. Two stages were considered for the cement. First, the cement was idealized as a fluid with a hydrostatic stress field. During the first five hours after cementation, a decrease in the hydrostatic stress field was employed in order to simulate the chemical shrinkage and loss of water in the hardening process. When hardened, the cement was considered to behave elastically with an increasing stiffness modulus over time. In the phase change from fluid to solid, special care was given to fitting the cement finite element mesh to the annulus, avoiding mesh overlapping. The new salt creep law showed accurate results when compared to field and other creep data. In the hardening process, the annular dimension reduction was expected and noticed. The deformation rate decreased with the increasing cement stiffness modulus. Most importantly, this deformation was negligible when compared with the dimensions of the well. Moreover, for practical and quick simulations, the hardening step can be avoided.

In well cementing, the cement slurry is exposed to the conditions far different than those of ordinary Portland cement (PC) used in construction. After placement, hardened cement paste should preserve integrity and provide zonal isolation through the life of the well. American Petroleum Institute (API) Class G cement is the most common cement type used in various well conditions. Class G cement has a high degree of sulfate resistance which makes it more stable than PC when subjected to the compulsive well conditions. Ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBFS) blended cement has a long history of use in the construction industry, but is not extensively used in well cementing applications. This study presents an experimental program to investigate the applicability of CEM I and GGBFS blended cement pastes in the well cementing industry. Class G cement and blends of CEM I and GGBFS with the proportions (80:20), (60:40), (40:60) and (20:80) are prepared with same water/cement ratio (0.44) as restricted for Class G cement in API Specification 10A to be tested. The cement pastes are cured for ages of 1 day, 7 days and 28 days at 80

The first main goal of this research is to develop comprehensive analytical and numerical models for the stress distribution around an inclined cased wellbore by considering all wellbore processes and to amend erroneous models of most previous work. The second main goal is to apply the developed models to explain near wellbore phenomena such as cement failure and sand production. To achieve these goals, this work checked the eligibility of using simple elastic approaches for the system by using a poroelastic undrained condition and a steady state condition for stresses induced by wellbore temperature variation. It utilized the generalized plane strain to compensate for the limitation of the plane strain which most previous work had used. In addition, this research developed comprehensive models to improve previous work by using superposing principles. For applying the developed models to cement failure, Mogi-Coulomb criterion for shear failure instead of Mohr-Coulomb and Drucker-Prager criteria was used to properly consider the intermediate stress. Additionally, ABAQUSr was utilized for numerical models with the "model change" option to simulate and combine all individual wellbore processes while MATLABr was used for analytical models. For predicting sand production, fully coupled poroelastic solutions for an inclined open wellbore were modified to obtain the stress distribution around a perforation tunnel after perforating. Then, modified Lade failure criterion was used to calculate the critical drawdown when sand production occurs, that is, when the perforation tunnel starts failure. This research obtained the following results. For developing models, the analytical models improved the previous research. However, the numerical results under a vertical tectonic stress showed discrepancies because of the difference between the generalized plane strain and numerical models. For cement failure, Young's modulus of cement, wellbore pressure and wellbore temperature variation could affect shear failure more significantly than the other factors. The numerical results showed closer to the failure envelopes than the analytical results. For predicting sand production, well completion affected sand production near wellbore and the critical drawdown converged to asymptotic values. In addition, perforating along the minimum horizontal stress direction was most preferable in a vertical cased wellbore under a normal stress regime. / text

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:06:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AnaCeciliaVN.pdf: 4627476 bytes, checksum: 03aa7ea0e615f64c7e42bf3a39bdd226 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-04-25 / Portland-polymers composites are promising candidates to be used as cementing material in Northeastern oil wells of Brazil containing heavy oils submitted to steam injection. In this way, it is necessary to evaluate its degradation in the commonly acidizind agents. In addition, to identify how aggressive are the different hostile environments it is an important contribution on the decision of the acidic systems to be used in. It was investigated the performance of the Portland-polymer composites using powdered polyurethane, aqueous polyurethane, rubber tire residues and a biopolymer, those were reinforced with polished carbon steel SAE 1045 to make the electrochemical measurements. HCl 15,0 %, HCl 6,0 % + HF 1,5 % (soft mud acid), HCl 12,0 % + HF 3,0 % (regular mud acid) and HAc 10 % + HF 1,5 % were used as degrading environment and electrolytes. The more aggressive acid solution to the plain Portland hardened cement paste was the regular mud acid, that showed loss of weight around 23.0 %, followed by the soft mud acid, the showed 11.0 %, 15.0 % HCl with 7,0 % and, at last the 10.0 % HAc plus HF 1.5 % with just 1.0 %. The powdered polyurethane-composite and the aqueous polyurethane one showed larger durability, with reduction around 87.0 % on the loss of weight in regular mud acid. The acid attack is superficial and it occurs as an action layer, where the degraded layer is responsible for the decrease on the kinetic of the degrading process. This behavior can be seen mainly on the Portland- aqueous polyurethane composite, because the degraded layer is impregnated with chemically modified polymer. The fact of the acid attack does not have influence on the compressive strength or fratography of the samples, in a general way, confirms that theory. The mechanism of the efficiency of the Portland-polymers composites subjected to acid attack is due to decreased porosity and permeability related with the plain Portland paste, minor quantity of Ca+2, element preferentially leached to the acidic solution, wave effect and to substitute part of the degrading bulk for the polymeric one. The electrolyte HAc 10 % + HF 1,5 % was the least aggressive one to the external corrosion of the casing, showing open circuit potentials around +250 mV compared to -130 mV to the simulated pore solution to the first 24 hours immersion. This behavior has been performed for two months at least. Similar corrosion rates were showed between both of the electrolytes, around 0.01 μA.cm-2. Total impedance values, insipient arcs and big polarization resistance capacitive arcs on the Nyquist plots, indicating passivity process, confirm its efficiency. In this way, Portlandpolymers composites are possible solutions to be succeed applied to oilwell cementing concomitant submitted to steam injection and acidizing operation and the HAc 10,0 % + HF 1,5 % is the less aggressive solution to the external corrosion of the casing / Comp?sitos Portland-pol?meros s?o promissores candidatos ? cimenta??o de po?os de petr?leo contendo ?leos pesados submetidos ? inje??o de vapor nos campos do Nordeste do Brasil. Assim, faz-se necess?rio avaliar sua degrada??o frente aos ?cidos comumente utilizados em opera??es de acidifica??o. Al?m disso, identificar a agressividade dos diferentes meios hostis ? corros?o externa do revestimento constitui uma importante contribui??o na decis?o dos sistemas ?cidos a serem utilizados. Foram avaliados comp?sitos adicionados de poliuretana em p?, poliuretana em solu??o aquosa, borracha de pneu mo?da e um biopol?mero atrav?s das API Spec. 10, sendo refor?ados com a?o carbono polido SAE 1045 para os ensaios eletroqu?micos. HCl 15,0 %, HCl 6,0 % + HF 1,5 % (soft mud acid), HCl 12,0 % + HF 3,0 % (regular mud acid) e HAc 10,0 % + HF 1,5 % foram aplicadas como meios degradantes e eletr?litos. A solu??o ?cida mais agressiva ? pasta de cimento Portland convencional ? a regular mud acid, que apresenta perda de massa em torno de de 23,0 %, seguida da soft mud acid, com perda de massa de 11,0 % e da solu??o HCl 15,0 %, em torno de 7,0 %. As menores perdas de massa, no entanto, s?o relativas ao meio agressivo HAc 10,0 % + HF 1,5 %, com perdas no patamar de 1,0 %. Os comp?sitos com poliuretana em p? e poliuretana em solu??o aquosa apresentaram maior durabilidade, com redu??o em torno de 87,0 % na perda de massa frente ao regular mud acid. O ataque ?cido ? superficial e ocorre como uma frente de a??o, sendo a camada degradada respons?vel pela minimiza??o da cin?tica do processo de degrada??o, principalmente no comp?sito Portland-poliuretana em dispers?o aquosa, por ser impregnada por pol?mero quimicamente modificado. O fato de n?o haver, de uma forma geral, influ?ncia do ataque ?cido na resist?ncia ? compress?o e fratografia das amostras, ap?s ataque ?cido, ratifica essa teoria. O mecanismo da maior efici?ncia dos comp?sitos Portland-pol?meros frente ao ataque ?cido ? regido por menores porosidades e permeabilidades que a pasta de cimento convencional, menor quantidade de Ca+2, elemento prioritariamente lixiviado para a solu??o ?cida, efeito tortuosidade e substitui??o de massa degrad?vel por massa polim?rica. O eletr?lito HAc 10,0 % + HF 1,5 % foi o menos agressivo ? corros?o externa do revestimento, com potenciais de circuito aberto superiores ? solu??o simuladora dos poros como eletr?lito, +250 mV frente a -130 mV para as primeiras 24 horas de imers?o, mantendo esse comportamento ao longo de, pelo menos, 2 meses de imers?o. Correntes de corros?o semelhantes entre esses dois eletr?litos, em torno de 0,01 μA.cm-2, e valores de imped?ncia total, arcos incipientes e grandes arcos capacitivos de resist?ncia de polariza??o, indicadores de passiva??o nos diagramas de Nyquist, confirmam sua efici?ncia. Assim, comp?sitos Portland-pol?meros s?o solu??es poss?veis de serem empregadas em cimenta??o de po?os de petr?leo submetidos concomitantemente ? inje??o de vapor e opera??es de acidifica??o, sendo a solu??o HAc 10,0 % + HF 1,5 % menos agressiva ? corros?o externa do revestimento ap?s opera??es de acidifica??o

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:06:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FilipeSO_DISSERT.pdf: 3900853 bytes, checksum: b933d50c7767f35ccf84d3eb5899b023 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-05-23 / Novel cementing materials formulations containing flexible polymeric admixtures have been studied aiming at improving the mechanical behavior of oil well cement slurries submitted to steam injection. However, research activities in this sector are still under development. The steam injected directly into the well causes casing dilation, which after a reduction in temperature, tends to return to its original dimensions, resulting in crack formation and hydraulic isolation loss of the well, which will result in shortening of well life. In this scenario, the objective of the present study was to evaluate the mechanical behavior of Portland-based slurries containing SBR latex, applied in oil well cementing of wells submitted to steam injection. Were formulated slurries with densities of 1.797 g/cm3 (15.0 lb/Gal) and 1.869 g/cm3 (15.6 lb/Gal), containing admixtures with a latex concentration of 0; 66.88; 133.76; 200.64 and 267.52 L/m3 (0, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 gpc). Tests including rheology, fluid loss control, thickening time, API compressive strength and splitting tensile strength, beyond steam injection simulation. Microstrutural characteristics of the slurries were also performed (XRD, TG, FTIR and SEM). The results showed that increasing the polymer concentration increased in the rheological properties and fluid loss, and a decrease in the elasticity modulus of the cement slurries. The results obtained showed that the slurries can be applied in cementing operations of oil wells submitted to steam injection. / Novas formula??es de pastas de cimento, aditivadas com materiais polim?ricos com caracter?sticas flex?veis, t?m sido estudadas para aplica??o em po?os sujeitos a inje??o de vapor. Entretanto, pesquisas neste setor ainda s?o atividades em desenvolvimento. O vapor injetado diretamente no po?o provoca a dilata??o do revestimento, o que ap?s redu??o na temperatura, tende a voltar as suas dimens?es iniciais, provocando forma??o de trincas e conseq?ente perda do isolamento hidr?ulico do po?o, que resultar? no encurtamento do tempo de sua vida ?til. Dentro deste contexto, este trabalho tem como objetivo estudar o comportamento mec?nico de sistemas de pastas de cimento Portland, aditivadas com l?tex SBR, para cimenta??o de po?os de petr?leo sujeitos a inje??o de vapor. Foram formuladas pastas com densidades de 1,797 g/cm3 (15,0 lb/Gal) e 1,869 g/cm3 (15,6 lb/Gal), aditivadas com concentra??o de 0; 66,88; 133,76; 200,64 e 267,52 L/m3 (0, 0,5, 1,0, 1,5 e 2,0 gpc) de l?tex. Foram realizados ensaios de reologia, controle de filtrado, tempo de espessamento, resist?ncia ? compress?o API e tra??o por compress?o diametral, al?m de simula??es de inje??o de vapor. Tamb?m foram realizadas caracteriza??es microestruturais das pastas de cimento (DRX, TG, FTIR e MEV). Os resultados mostraram que com o aumento da concentra??o do pol?mero ocorreram mudan?as nas propriedades reol?gicas e no volume de filtrado, al?m de uma diminui??o do m?dulo de elasticidade das pastas de cimento. A partir dos resultados obtidos verificou-se que as pastas podem ser aplicadas em opera??es de cimenta??o de po?os de petr?leo sujeitos a inje??o de vapor.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:07:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DiegoBR_DISSERT.pdf: 2561284 bytes, checksum: 728dce6008fc70c37faa4759ea2eba6d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-02-16 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / Nowadays, the search for new technologies that are able to follow the upcoming challenges in oil industry is a constant. Always trying properties improvements of the used materials, looking for the best performance and greater life time. Besides the search for technologies that show an improvement of performance, the search for materials environmentally correct along the whole production process. In Oil well cementing, this search for new technologies passes through the development of slurry systems that support these requests and that are also environmentally friendly. In this context, the use of geopolymer slurries is a great alternative route to cementing oil wells. Besides having good properties, comparable to Portland cement slurries, this alternative material releases much less CO2 gas in the production of their root materials when compared the production of Portland cement, which releases tons of CO2. In order to improve the properties of geopolymer slurries has been added Calcium Oxide, as observed in other studies that slurries where the Calcium is present the values of compressive strength is greater. The addition has been realized based in the CaO/SiO2 molar ratio of 0.05, 0.10 and 0.15. Have been performed compressive strength tests, thickening time, rheology and fliud loss control test of the slurries, following NBR 9831, as well as the physical chemical characterization of XRD, SEM and TG. Has been observed in most of the tests the slurries follow a tendency until the ratio of 0.10, which inverses in the ratio 0.15. This behavior can be explained by two phenomena that occur simultaneously, the first one is the break of the polymer chains and a consequent increase in molucules mobility, which prevails until the ratio of 0.1, and the second is possible approach of the chains due to the capacity of the calcium ions stabilize the charges of two different aluminum. There is only one linearity in the mechanical behavior that can be attributed to the appereance of the C-S-H phase. Based on this, it is concluded that the phenomenon of breaking the polymer chains predominates until the ratio of 0.1, causing an increase of the filtrate volume, lower rheological parameters and increasing thickening time. From the ratio of 0.15 the approach of the chains predominates, and the behavior is reversed / Nos dias atuais a busca por novas tecnologias que possam acompanhar os desafios que surgem dia a dia na ind?stria do petr?leo ? constante, sempre tentando melhorar as propriedades dos materiais que s?o utilizados, buscando o melhor desempenho e maior vida ?til. Al?m de buscar novas tecnologias ? de fundamental import?ncia o desempenho dos materiais e que estes sejam ambientalmente corretos. No ramo da cimenta??o de po?os de petr?leo, essa procura por novas tecnologias passa pelo desenvolvimento de sistemas de pastas que suportem as solicita??es requeridas pelas normas internacionais e nacionais para esse setor. Nesse contexto, lan?a o desafio de se produzir novos sistemas de pastas para o revestimento de po?os petrol?feros, sejam eles para po?os on shore ou off shore. As pastas geopolim?ricas apresentam-se como uma boa alternativa para a cimenta??o de po?os de petr?leo, pois alem de possuir boas propriedades, compar?veis as pastas de cimento Portland, esse material libera muito menos CO2 na produ??o das suas meterias primas quando comparados ? produ??o do cimento Portland. Com o intu?do de melhorar as propriedades das pastas geopolim?ricas foi adicionado o ?xido de c?lcio, pois foi observado em outros trabalhos que pastas onde o c?lcio esta presente os valores de resist?ncia a compress?o s?o maiores. A adi??o foi realizada baseada na raz?o molar CaO/SiO2 de 0,05, 0,10 e 0,15, foram realizados ensaios de resist?ncia a compress?o, tempo de espessamento, reologia e filtrado das pastas seguindo a NBR 9831, bem como as caracteriza??es f?sico qu?micas de DRX, MEV, TG. Foi observado que na maioria dos ensaios as pastas seguem uma tend?ncia ate a raz?o de 0,10 que se inverte na raz?o de 0,15. Esse comportamento pode ser explicado por dois fen?menos que ocorrem simultaneamente: o primeiro ? a quebra das cadeias polim?ricas com um conseq?ente aumento da mobilidade das mol?culas, que prevalece ate a raz?o de 0,1, e o segundo ? a poss?vel aproxima??o das cadeias devido a capacidade do ?on c?lcio estabilizar as cargas de dois alum?nios diferentes. Existe apenas a linearidade no comportamento mec?nico que pode ser atribu?do ao aparecimento da fase C-S-H. Com base nisso pode se concluir que o fen?meno de quebra das cadeias polim?ricas predomina at? a raz?o de 0,1, provocando o aumento no volume de filtrado, diminui??o dos par?metros reol?gicos e aumento do tempo de espessamento. A partir da raz?o 0,15 a aproxima??o das cadeias predomina e assim o comportamento se inverte