Hydrophobically-associating polyacrylamide fracturing fluid thickener, preparation method and applications thereof

The present invention relates to a hydrophobically-associating polyacrylamide fracturing fluid thickener, a preparation method and applications thereof. In the prior art, the polyacrylamide polymer fracturing fluid thickener has disadvantages of insufficient temperature resistance, incomplete gel breaking and instability at high temperature and high shearing. A purpose of the present invention is mainly to solve the problems in the prior art. The hydrophobically-associating polyacrylamide fracturing fluid thickener is prepared by carrying out a reaction on a reaction system comprising components of 15-50 parts by weight of acrylamide, 1-50 parts by weight of a cationic monomer or anionic monomer, 1-20 parts by weight of a nonionic monomer, 0.01-0.5 part by weight of a hydrophobic monomer, 0.001-0.005 part by weight of a molecular weight regulator, 0.0001-0.0005 part by weight of a composite initiator, and 30-80 parts by weight of water. With the technical scheme, the problems in the prior art are well solved. According to the present invention, the hydrophobically-associating polyacrylamide fracturing fluid thickener can be separately applied in the oil and gas field fracturing process, or can be compounded with other auxiliary agents so as to be adopted as the fracturing fluid thickener applied in the oil and gas field fracturing process.