The invention relates to a nanometer plugging agent for a water-based
drilling fluid, a preparing method of the nanometer plugging agent and the
drilling fluid. The nanometer plugging agent for the water-based
drilling fluid is obtained in a manner that multi-walled carbon nanotubes are covalently coated with
sodium polystyrenesulfonate, wherein the
tube diameter of the multi-walled carbon nanotubes is 20 nm to 30 nm, and the
tube length of the multi-walled carbon nanotubes is 10 microns to 30 microns; the number-average molecular weight of the grafted
sodium polystyrenesulfonate is 75 kDa, and the
degree of polymerization (DOP) is 900; the drilling fluid is prepared from 100 parts by weight of water, 1-8 parts by weight of
bentonite, 4-10 parts by weight of a flow-pattern adjusting agent,0.2-1.2 parts by weight of a
thickening agent, 4-10 parts by weight of a fluid loss agent, 30-60 parts by weight of a plugging agent, 10-50 parts by weight of
a weighting agent, 0.1-4 parts by weightof a lubricating agent and 0.1-0.4 part by weight of a pH adjusting agent. According to the nanometer plugging agent for the water-based drilling fluid, the preparing method of the nanometer pluggingagent and the drilling fluid, the
sodium-polystyrenesulfonate-modified multi-walled carbon nanotubes are used as the plugging agent, micron-and-nanometer-size pores of the mud shale well wall can beeffectively plugged, and the nanometer plugging agent is particularly suitable for drilling construction of stratums with low
porosity,
low permeability, micro-pore micro-crack development and a remarkable capillary effect.