Abstract: A system for increasing the detecting degradation of a wellbore. The system comprises a computer memory configured for storing computing instructions and a processor operably coupled to the computer memory. The system comprises a sensor operably coupled to the computer memory and is configured to determine the presence of at least one chemical species indicative of degradation of the wellbore in a fluid exiting the wellbore. Methods of monitoring a wellbore for corrosion or other degradation of one or more components of wellbore equipment are disclosed as are methods of increasing the lifetime of a wellbore.

Abstract: A system for increasing the detecting degradation of a wellbore. The system comprises a computer memory configured for storing computing instructions and a processor operably coupled to the computer memory. The system comprises a sensor operably coupled to the computer memory and is configured to determine the presence of at least one chemical species indicative of degradation of the wellbore in a fluid exiting the wellbore. Methods of monitoring a wellbore for corrosion or other degradation of one or more components of wellbore equipment are disclosed as are methods of increasing the lifetime of a wellbore.

Abstract: A system for increasing the detecting degradation of a wellbore. The system comprises a computer memory configured for storing computing instructions and a processor operably coupled to the computer memory. The system comprises a sensor operably coupled to the computer memory and is configured to determine the presence of at least one chemical species indicative of degradation of the wellbore in a fluid exiting the wellbore. Methods of monitoring a wellbore for corrosion or other degradation of one or more components of wellbore equipment are disclosed as are methods of increasing the lifetime of a wellbore.

Abstract: A downhole fluid may be circulated within a wellbore where the downhole fluid may include at least a modified perlite and/or an aerogel. The amount of the modified perlite and/or aerogel within the downhole fluid may range from about 5 vol % to about 30 vol % of the downhole fluid of the total amount of the downhole fluid. The downhole fluid may be a drilling fluid, completion fluid, lost circulation pill, displacement pill, and combinations thereof. The material may help the downhole fluid maintain a relatively low density of less than about 1100 kg/m3.

Abstract: Contacting the wellbore with a fluid composition and forming a metallic powder barrier at or near the tip of a fracture extending from the wellbore into a subterranean formation may strengthen a wellbore. The fluid composition may include a base fluid and a metallic powder having a plurality of metallic powder particles. The base fluid may include a drilling fluid, a completion fluid, a servicing fluid, a fracturing fluid, and mixtures thereof. The metallic powder particles may have a particle core and a metallic coating layer. The particle core may include a core material selected, such as magnesium, zinc, aluminum, manganese, vanadium, chromium, molybdenum, iron, cobalt, silicon, nitride, tungsten, and a combination thereof. The metallic coating layer may be disposed on the particle core thereby forming a metallic powder particle. The metallic powder particles may be configured for solid-state sintering to one another to form the metallic particle compacts.