Method of fabricating surfactant for improving the recovery rate of oil reservoirs in low-permeability sandstone

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12545829-B2
Application number	US-202318550131-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 13, 2023
Priority date	Jun 30, 2022
Publication date	Feb 10, 2026
Grant date	Feb 10, 2026

Abstract

The present invention provides a method of preparing a surfactant for improving the recovery rate of oil reservoirs in a low-permeability sandstone, including two steps of preparing a deep-eutectic solvent and preparing a surfactant. The surfactant of the present invention significantly reduces the interfacial tension between oil and water and has the effect of inhibiting the hydration expansion of clay minerals.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1 . A method for fabricating a surfactant for improving a recovery rate of oil reservoirs in low-permeability sandstone, comprising the following steps:
mixing and heating choline chloride and a carboxylic acid together to obtain a deep-eutectic solvent; and mixing the deep-eutectic solvent and cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) with an amount of water to obtain the surfactant for flooding oil in low-permeability sandstone reservoirs.

2 . The method for fabricating a surfactant for improving the recovery rate of oil reservoirs in low-permeability sandstone of claim 1 , wherein the carboxylic acid used in obtaining the deep-eutectic solvent comprises one or more of oxalic acid, glycolic acid, malonic acid, lactic acid, pyruvic acid, succinic acid, glutaric acid, malic acid, citric acid, and 5-ketoglutaric acid.

3 . The method for fabricating a surfactant for improving the recovery rate of oil reservoirs in low-permeability sandstone of claim 2 , wherein the carboxylic acid used in obtaining the deep-eutectic solvent is citric acid.

4 . The method for fabricating a surfactant for improving the recovery rate of oil reservoirs in low-permeability sandstone of claim 1 , wherein the mole ratio between the choline chloride and the carboxylic acid in obtaining the deep-eutectic solvent is 1-2:1-2.

5 . The method for fabricating a surfactant for improving the recovery rate of oil reservoirs in low-permeability sandstone of claim 1 , wherein the heating process in obtaining the deep-eutectic solvent is heating to 75-120° C. for 0.5-2 hours.

6 . The method for fabricating a surfactant for improving the recovery rate of oil reservoirs in low-permeability sandstone of claim 1 , wherein the deep-eutectic solvent used in obtaining the surfactant is 0.5%-2% of the total weight of the surfactant.

7 . The method for fabricating a surfactant for improving the recovery rate of oil reservoirs in low-permeability sandstone of claim 1 , wherein the deep-eutectic solvent used in obtaining the surfactant is 1% of the total weight of the surfactant.

8 . The method for fabricating a surfactant for improving the recovery rate of oil reservoirs in low-permeability sandstone of claim 1 , wherein the mole ratio between the deep-eutectic solvent and CTAB in obtaining the surfactant is 1-4:1-4.

9 . The method for fabricating a surfactant for improving the recovery rate of oil reservoirs in low-permeability sandstone of claim 1 , wherein the mole ratio between the deep-eutectic solvent and CTAB in obtaining the surfactant is 3:2.

10 . The method for fabricating a surfactant for improving the recovery rate of oil reservoirs in low-permeability sandstone of claim 1 , wherein combining the steps of obtaining the deep-eutectic solvent and the step of obtaining the surfactant, so that the choline chloride, the carboxylic acid and the CTAB are directly added into an aqueous solution to compound the surfactant.

Assignees

• Univ Changzhou

Inventors

• Bai Jiajia
• Tao Lei
• Shi Wenyang
• Zhang Na
• Xu Zhengxiao
• Zhu Qingjie
• Ma Yunpeng
• Liu Mingzhu
• Si Shuanghu
• Ren Zhu
• Gu Tianshuai
• Shang Haichi
• Liu Yahu
• Zhang Yaxuan
• Wang Yueyang

Classifications

• C09K2208/12

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

• C09K8/86

  containing organic compounds · CPC title

• C09K8/602

  containing surfactants · CPC title

• E21B43/16

  Enhanced recovery methods for obtaining hydrocarbons · CPC title

• C09K8/584 Primary

  characterised by the use of specific surfactants · CPC title