The invention provides a plugging agent, which comprises, by weight, 100 parts of water, 5-20 parts of a curing agent, 1-6 parts of an activator, 1-5 parts of a gelatinizing agent, and 40-120 parts ofa structural base material, wherein the curing agent is
silicate, and the gelatinizing agent is an aluminum salt. Compared with the plugging agent in the prior art, the plugging agent of the invention has the following characteristics that the
silicon-aluminum gel formed by the
silicate and the aluminum salt is used as the base
slurry, the
free water can be bound in the whole gel
system structureso as to reduce the content of the
free water and improve the
viscosity of the gel
system, and the liquid filtered out in the plugging process contains high-concentration
silicate ions so as to reactwith the
formation water and various minerals in the stratum to strengthen the plugging effect; the activator reacts with the structural base material to form a high-strength solidifying body, and the curing agent and the gelatinizing agent participate in the solidification reaction, so that the plugging agent filtrate, the
filter cake and the plugging agent can participate in the solidificationand cementation of the leakage channel and the stratum rock
mass so as to increase the plugging treatment
radius; and the plugging agent is wide in density adjustment range.