Reverse emulsion-based slick water concentration system with drag reduction, flow back enhancement and clay stabilization functions

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10513649-B2
Application number	US-201715792709-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 24, 2017
Priority date	Oct 25, 2016
Publication date	Dec 24, 2019
Grant date	Dec 24, 2019

Abstract

A reverse emulsion-based slick water concentration system, wherein the reverse emulsion is obtained by dispersing an aqueous phase A to an oil phase B under mechanical agitation; wherein the aqueous phase A is composed of a water-soluble monomer A1, a water-soluble fluorocarbon surfactant A2, a water-soluble quaternary ammonium clay stabilizer A3 and water A4; wherein the oil phase B comprises an oil-soluble dispersant/surfactant B1, an oil-soluble radical initiator B2 and a hydrophobic solvent B3 as a dispersing medium; wherein, the percentages of each component described above, relative to the total weight of the reaction system is as the following: water-soluble monomer A1: 5.0-30.0%; water-soluble fluorocarbon surfactant A2: 0.1-5.0%; water-soluble quaternary ammonium clay stabilizer A3: 0.1-15.0%; water A4: 5.0-35.0%; oil-soluble dispersant/surfactant B1: 0.1-5.0%; oil-soluble radical initiator B2: 0.000001-0.100%; hydrophobic solvent B3: remainder.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A reverse emulsion-based slick water concentration system, obtained by reverse emulsion polymerization at elevated temperature, wherein the reverse emulsion polymerization is conducted by dispersing an aqueous phase A into an oil phase B to form a reverse emulsion before polymerization takes place; wherein, the said aqueous phase A comprises a water-soluble monomer A1, a water-soluble fluorocarbon surfactant A2, a water-soluble quaternary ammonium clay stabilizer A3 and water A4; wherein the oil phase B comprises an oil-soluble dispersant/surfactant B1, an oil-soluble radical initiator B2 and a hydrophobic solvent B3 as dispersion medium; wherein the weight percent of each component based on the total weight of the reaction system is: water-soluble monomer A1: 5.0-30.0%; water-soluble fluorocarbon surfactant A2: 0.1-5.0%; water-soluble quaternary ammonium clay stabilizer A3: 0.1-15.0%; water: 5.0-35.0%; oil-soluble dispersant/surfactant B1: 0.1-5.0%; oil-soluble radical initiator B2: 0.000001-0.100%; hydrophobic solvent B3: remainder; wherein the water-soluble monomer A1 is hydroxyethyl methacrylate, the water-soluble fluorocarbon surfactant A2 is water-soluble cationic fluorocarbon surfactant, the quaternary ammonium salt A3 is tetramethylammonium chloride, the oil-soluble dispersant/surfactant B1 is sorbic anhydride, the oil-soluble radical initiator B2 is azobisisobutyronitrile, the hydrophobic solvent B3 is naphthenic oil.

2. The reverse emulsion-based slick water concentration system as described in claim 1 , wherein a mutual solvent A5 and a hydrophobic monomer A6 may be introduced to the aqueous phase A, or wherein a mutual solvent A5 and a fluorocarbon monomer A7 may be added to the aqueous phase A to generate polymeric drag reducer with backbone modified with hydrophobic or fluorocarbon moiety to minimize inter-molecular friction coefficient and the friction coefficient between macromolecules and reservoir for formation damage mitigation; wherein the said mutual solvent A5 is ethylene glycol monobutyl ether; wherein the said hydrophobic monomer A6 is methyl acrylate; wherein the said fluorocarbon monomer A7 is perfluorodecyl acrylate.

Assignees

• Univ Yangtze

Inventors

• Wu Jun
• Yu Wei-Chu

Classifications

• C09K8/88

  macromolecular compounds · CPC title

• C09K8/28

  containing organic additives · CPC title

• C08F2/44

  Polymerisation in the presence of compounding ingredients, e.g. plasticisers, dyestuffs, fillers · CPC title

• C09K2208/12

  Swell inhibition, i.e. using additives to drilling or well treatment fluids for inhibiting clay or shale swelling or disintegrating · CPC title

• C09K8/68

  containing organic compounds · CPC title