Insatiability emulsification and viscosity system with controlled viscosity and its application in water-driven reservoir

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11268013-B2
Application number	US-201916961562-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 30, 2019
Priority date	May 9, 2019
Publication date	Mar 8, 2022
Grant date	Mar 8, 2022

Abstract

An in-situ emulsification and viscosity increase system with controllable viscosity consists of the following components in percentage by weight: 0.3˜1.5% of emulsifier, 0.05˜0.5% of ultrafine colloidal particles, 0.01˜0.1% of suspending agent and the balance of mineralized water. The emulsifier is one of or a combination of petroleum sulfonate, petroleum carboxylate, sodium dodecyl sulfate, sodium dodecyl benzenesulfonate, alkyl glycoside, aliphatic alcohol ether carboxylate, aliphatic alcohol ether sulfonate, hydroxysulfobetaine and alkanolamide. The ultrafine colloidal particles are one of ultrafine silicon dioxide, ultrafine montmorillonoid, ultrafine ferric oxide, ultrafine ferroferric oxide, ultrafine aluminum oxide and ultrafine titanium dioxide. The suspending agent is one of partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide, amylose, carboxymethyl chitosan, hydroxymethyl cellulose, xanthan gum and sodium alginate. The system is applicable to a water-flooding oil reservoir with the viscosity of lower than 50 mPa·s, has a very broad coverage scope and outstanding economic benefits and can effectively promote efficient development of water-flooding oil reservoirs.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An in-situ emulsification and viscosity increase system with controllable viscosity, comprising:
an emulsifier,
lipophilic colloidal particles and
a carrying agent that form ultra-low interfacial tension with crude oil, wherein the ultra-low interfacial tension is in an order of magnitude of 10 −2 mN/m and below;
the system consisting of the following components in percentage by weight:
0.3˜1.5% of emulsifier;
0.05˜0.5% of ultrafine colloidal particles;
0.01˜0.1% of suspending agent; and
a balance of mineralized water.

2. The in-situ emulsification and viscosity increase system with controllable viscosity according to claim 1 , wherein the emulsifier is one of or a combination of petroleum sulfonate, petroleum carboxylate, sodium dodecyl sulfate, sodium dodecyl benzenesulfonate, alkyl glycoside, aliphatic alcohol ether carboxylate, aliphatic alcohol ether sulfonate, hydroxysulfobetaine and alkanolamide.

3. The in-situ emulsification and viscosity increase system with controllable viscosity according to claim 1 , wherein the ultrafine colloidal particles are one of ultrafine silicon dioxide, ultrafine montmorillonoid, ultrafine ferric oxide, ultrafine ferroferric oxide, ultrafine aluminum oxide and ultrafine titanium dioxide.

4. The in-situ emulsification and viscosity increase system with controllable viscosity according to claim 3 , wherein the ultrafine colloidal particles have a particle size of 10 nm-1.0 μm.

5. The in-situ emulsification and viscosity increase system with controllable viscosity according to claim 1 , wherein the suspending agent is one of partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide, amylose, carboxymethyl chitosan, hydroxymethyl cellulose, xanthan gum and sodium alginate.

Assignees

• Univ Southwest Petroleum

Inventors

• Liu Rui
• Pu Wanfen
• Du Daijun
• Sun Lin
• Pang Shishi

Classifications

• E21B43/20

  Displacing by water · CPC title

• E21B43/16

  Enhanced recovery methods for obtaining hydrocarbons · CPC title

• C09K8/588

  characterised by the use of specific polymers {(polymeric surfactants C09K8/584)} · CPC title

• C09K8/584 Primary

  characterised by the use of specific surfactants · CPC title

• C09K2208/10

  Nanoparticle-containing well treatment fluids · CPC title