Dividivi tannins: an ecological product for water-based drilling fluids

Miguel A. Pérez (), Richard Rengifo (), Carlos Pereira () and Vanessa Hernández ()
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Miguel A. Pérez: PDVSA Intevep Urb. Santa Rosa
Richard Rengifo: PDVSA Intevep Urb. Santa Rosa
Carlos Pereira: PDVSA Intevep Urb. Santa Rosa
Vanessa Hernández: PDVSA Intevep Urb. Santa Rosa

Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, 2017, vol. 19, issue 5, No 12, 1815-1829

Abstract: Abstract Modified tannins are used as deflocculant additives in the formulation of water-based drilling fluids (WBDF) for drilling operations in any scenario. Due to their high heavy metals content, these additives are toxic and hazardous for any environmental scenario. Deflocculant efficiency of unmodified tannins (UDT) extracted from fruit pods of “dividivi” (Caesalpinia coriaria) as an additive for WBDF was assessed. Raw materials for UDT elaboration come from the rural and sustainable exploitation of natural occurring dividivi trees, growing in dry tropical forests in Anzoátegui state (Orinoco Oil Belt, eastern Venezuela). The tannins extract, in the form of dividivi fruit powder, contains 47.0 % of total tannins (hydrolyzable tannins plus condensed tannins), of which 67.4 % corresponds to hydrolyzable tannins. Dividivi tannins in WBDF showed nine (9) times deflocculant efficiency than heavy metals commercial modified tannins. Moreover, commercial modified tannins do not improve their deflocculant efficiency with increased tannin content. Ecotoxicological studies were carried out for WBDF formulations with UDT, using freshwater microalgae Scenedesmus dimorphus as chronic toxicity bioindicator. Toxicity bioassays performed with these microalgae did not show significant effects on its population growth. The EC50 values resulted in over 100,000 mg L−1, and these formulations were therefore considered non-toxic. Values of LC50 obtained this time with Poecilia reticulata, as acute toxicity bioindicator are around 100,000 mg L−1, with no significant effects on population mortality. Thus, WBDF formulated with UDT can be considered non-toxic formulations for populations of this freshwater fish. From the social perspective, the use of UDT in WBDF fosters organized communities economical activities based on the maintenance of a sustainable supply chain for processing fruits in a quantity enough to obtain three thousand seven hundred fifty kilograms (3750 Kg). The UDT so obtained was used as deflocculant in four (4) oil wells producing excellent performance and relevant savings compared with commercial modified tannin.

Keywords: Dividivi tannin; Deflocculant; Thinners; Flocculated; Caesalpinia coriaria; Water-based drilling fluids; Clay chemical; Orinoco oil belt (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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