Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the defects of the prior art, the invention provides a preparation method and application of a composition for reducing the minimum miscible pressure of carbon dioxide and crude oil based on a gas-soluble surfactant. The technology can further promote the large-scale application of the carbon dioxide flooding technology in China, realize miscible flooding in the carbon dioxide flooding process, improve the flooding effect, and lay a foundation for realizing win-win of carbon dioxide emission reduction and utilization.
The technical scheme of the invention is as follows:
a method for preparing a composition for reducing the minimum miscible pressure of carbon dioxide and crude oil based on an aerosol surfactant comprises the following steps:
(1) mixing an aerosol surfactant and absolute ethyl alcohol according to a weight ratio of 1: (10-20) mixing uniformly according to the proportion to prepare an ethanol solution of the aerosol surfactant for later use;
(2) and (2) uniformly mixing the ethanol solution of the aerosol surfactant prepared in the step (1) and liquid carbon dioxide according to the mass percentage of 10-25% to prepare the composition.
Preferably, according to the invention, the aerosol surfactant described in step (1) is a dehydrated powder.
Preferably, according to the present invention, the aerosol surfactant described in step (1) is an aerosol surfactant containing a carbon dioxide-philic group.
Further preferably, the carbon dioxide-philic group is a polyoxyethylene group or a polyoxypropylene group.
More preferably, the aerosol surfactant is fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene polyoxypropylene ether or nonylphenol polyoxyethylene ether, wherein the polymerization degree of the oxyethylene is 9-12.
More preferably, the aerosol surfactant is fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene polyoxypropylene ether or nonylphenol polyoxyethylene ether, wherein the polymerization degree of the oxyethylene is 9.
According to the invention, preferably, in the step (1), the ratio of the aerosol surfactant to the absolute ethyl alcohol is 1: 10, and preparing an ethanol solution of the aerosol surfactant for later use.
Further preferably, the ethanol solution of the aerosol surfactant prepared in the step (1) and the liquid carbon dioxide are uniformly mixed according to the mass percentage of 20% to prepare the composition.
The solubility of the gas soluble surfactant in the supercritical carbon dioxide under the conditions of the temperature of 40-90 ℃ and the pressure of 10-30 MPa is 0.05-0.35 wt%, and when the supercritical carbon dioxide contains 10-25 wt% of absolute ethyl alcohol, the solubility of the gas soluble surfactant in the supercritical carbon dioxide can be improved to 0.5-2.5 wt% under the same temperature and pressure conditions.
The composition is applied to carbon dioxide flooding, and the minimum miscible pressure of carbon dioxide and crude oil is reduced.
According to the invention, the application method of the composition comprises the following steps:
when the oil reservoir is shallow in buried depth and reaches an oil displacement layer, the composition cannot be converted into a supercritical state, and the composition is directly injected in a supercritical carbon dioxide mode to displace oil.
Further preferably, the reservoir burial depth is less than 1500 m.
Further preferably, the composition is prepared by uniformly mixing the ethanol solution of the air-soluble surfactant and liquid carbon dioxide according to the mass percentage of 10-20%.
According to the invention, the application method of the composition comprises the following steps:
when the oil reservoir is deeply buried, the composition reaches an oil displacement layer and is converted into a supercritical state, and the composition is injected in a liquid form to displace oil.
Further preferably, the reservoir burial depth is more than 1500 m.
Further preferably, the composition is prepared by uniformly mixing the ethanol solution of the air-soluble surfactant and liquid carbon dioxide according to the mass percentage of 15-25%.
According to the invention, the composition is preferably used, wherein the ratio of the aerosol surfactant to the absolute ethyl alcohol is 1: 10 are mixed uniformly.
Further preferably, the composition is prepared by uniformly mixing an ethanol solution of the aerosol surfactant and liquid carbon dioxide according to the mass percentage of 20%.
The technical scheme of the invention has the beneficial effects
1. The method applies the gas soluble surfactant to reduce the miscible pressure of the carbon dioxide and the crude oil for the first time, and uniformly mixes the ethanol solution of the gas soluble surfactant with the liquid carbon dioxide and injects the mixture into the stratum, or directly pressurizes and heats the mixture on the ground to a supercritical state after uniform mixing and injects the mixture into the stratum; in addition, the problem that the conventional miscible pressure reducing agent and the carbon dioxide cannot be effectively mixed due to the gravity separation effect of the two agents (as shown in figure 3) is avoided, and when the agent flows to the heterogeneous formation, the aerosol surfactant can still be dissolved in the supercritical carbon dioxide and can be transported together with the supercritical carbon dioxide to contact with the crude oil to exert the effect of reducing the miscible pressure (as shown in figure 4).
2. The preferred gas-soluble surfactant is an ethanol solution of the gas-soluble surfactant, which is prepared by dehydrated surfactant powder and absolute ethanol according to a certain mass ratio, and the system does not contain water, so that the dependence on water phase injection in the construction process of reducing miscible phase pressure by the existing supercritical carbon dioxide microemulsion method is avoided, the injection capability of the system selected by the invention in oil reservoirs with lower permeability such as compact oil reservoirs is greatly improved, and the application range of the system is expanded.
3. The addition amount (10 wt% -25 wt%) of the preferred auxiliary agent ethanol is greatly improved compared with the addition amount (less than 5 wt%) of the conventional method, so that the method is favorable for remarkably improving the solubility of the surfactant in the supercritical carbon dioxide, is convenient for the supercritical carbon dioxide to dissolve and carry the surfactant to be remotely moved in a porous medium, and is favorable for deep mass transfer to reduce the miscible phase pressure; on the other hand, the distribution coefficient of the surfactant between the supercritical carbon dioxide and the crude oil can be adjusted by adjusting the addition amount of the auxiliary agent ethanol (the distribution coefficient refers to the ratio of the solubility of the surfactant in the supercritical carbon dioxide to the solubility of the surfactant in the crude oil when the supercritical carbon dioxide carrying the surfactant is fully mixed with the crude oil and before the mixing phase and the two are separated again), the balance relationship between the surfactant and the parent crude oil can be optimized by adjusting the parameter, and the interface effect of the surfactant on the interface between the carbon dioxide and the crude oil is exerted to the maximum.
Detailed Description
The technical solutions of the present invention are further described below with reference to the drawings and the embodiments of the specification, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto.
Source of raw materials
The surfactant used in the invention is obtained by purchase, dried at 60 ℃ to be processed into powder and then used.
Experimental examples 1-4 the 2-ethyl-1-hexanol-polyoxypropylene polyoxyethylene ether is obtained from Shanghai highland barley limited company, the purity is not less than 98.5%, and the structural formula is as follows:
wherein: m is 6-15, and n is 5.
Experimental examples 1-4 the nonylphenol polyoxyethylene ether was obtained from Shanghai Michelin Biochemical technology Ltd, and was chemically pure, and the structural formula was as follows:
wherein: n is 4 to 15.
Experimental example 1
The gas-soluble surfactant reduces the miscible pressure of carbon dioxide/crude oil, and the polymerization degree of ethylene oxide of the gas-soluble surfactant is preferably tested:
the experimental conditions are as follows:
(1) simulating the oil reservoir temperature: 60 ℃;
(2) experimental oil: the technical scheme is applicable to crude oil viscosity of less than 100mPa & s under the oil reservoir condition, and the degassed crude oil in the high 89 blocks of the victory oil field is selected in the experimental example, and belongs to typical compact oil reservoir blocks, wherein the crude oil viscosity is 24mPa & s under the oil reservoir condition;
(3) carbon dioxide: the purity is 99.9 percent, and the product is produced by Qingdao Tianyuan gas manufacturing company Limited;
(4) air-soluble surfactant: 2-Ethyl-1-hexanol-polyoxypropylene Polyoxyethylene Ether (fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene polyoxypropylene Ether) (2 EH-PO)n-EOmN is 5, m is 6, 9, 13, 15), nonylphenol polyoxyethylene ether (NP-m, m is 4, 6, 9, 12, 15).
(5) The absolute ethyl alcohol is a common commercial product
(6) Tracker-H type interfacial tensiometer: manufactured by Teclis, France.
Purpose of the experiment:
simulating the process that the gas-soluble surfactant is contacted with crude oil after being dissolved and carried into a stratum by supercritical carbon dioxide, measuring the change of the interfacial tension of the carbon dioxide and the crude oil under the action of the gas-soluble surfactant by a pendant drop method, obtaining the minimum miscible phase pressure of the carbon dioxide and the crude oil before and after the gas-soluble surfactant is added by utilizing an interfacial tension disappearance method, and evaluating the influence rule of the polymerization degree of the ethylene oxide of the gas-soluble surfactant on the capability of reducing the minimum miscible phase pressure of the carbon dioxide and the crude oil.
Experimental procedure (experimental flow chart shown in fig. 5):
(1) testing the air tightness of the experimental device by using high-pressure nitrogen;
(2) sequentially cleaning the high-temperature high-pressure reaction kettle, the injection syringe and the straight needle by using acetone, absolute ethyl alcohol and distilled water;
(3) installing the syringe and the needle tube filled with the crude oil on a driving system;
(4) uniformly preparing an aerosol surfactant and absolute ethyl alcohol according to a certain mass ratio, and then injecting an ethanol solution of the aerosol surfactant and liquid carbon dioxide into a high-pressure closed container according to a certain mass ratio to uniformly prepare for later use;
(5) adjusting the temperature of the high-temperature high-pressure reaction kettle to 60 ℃, injecting a certain amount of ethanol solution of the gas-soluble surfactant and liquid carbon dioxide into the high-temperature high-pressure reaction kettle, and adjusting the injection amount to reach the required experimental pressure after the temperature is stable;
(6) adjusting the base to enable the needle head to appear in the visual window, and driving the motor to enable the oil drops to form a downward suspension oil drop on the needle point of the syringe;
(7) input of CO in control system2And the oil drop density, the volume of the oil drop and the dynamic interfacial tension are measured in real time through a data image acquisition system;
(8) increasing the pressure, re-extruding oil drops, repeating the experiment, and measuring the interfacial tension of the carbon dioxide and the crude oil under different pressures;
(9) and obtaining the pressure when the interfacial tension is zero according to a linear extrapolation method, namely the minimum miscible pressure of the carbon dioxide and the crude oil.
The experimental results are as follows:
as shown in fig. 6, the interfacial tension of pure carbon dioxide and crude oil under different pressures is measured, and then the data points are subjected to piecewise linear fitting, wherein the pressure corresponding to the intersection point of the solid line part and the abscissa obtained by fitting is the Minimum Miscible Pressure (MMP) of carbon dioxide and crude oil in multiple contact, and the pressure corresponding to the intersection point of the dotted line part and the abscissa is the minimum miscible pressure (P) of carbon dioxide and crude oil in one contactmax). MMP was measured to be 16.79MPa, P according to this methodmax=30.56MPa。
Similarly, MMP after the addition of aerosol surfactants with different degrees of polymerization of ethylene oxide was tested according to this method is shown in FIG. 7.
As can be seen from fig. 7, when the mass ratio of the aerosol surfactant to the auxiliary ethanol is 1: 10, when the addition amount of the ethanol solution of the aerosol surfactant is 20 wt% of the mass of the carbon dioxide, the miscible pressure of the carbon dioxide and the crude oil is firstly reduced and then increased with the increase of the polymerization degree of the ethylene oxide in both the fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene polyoxypropylene ether and the nonylphenol polyoxyethylene ether. The reason for this is mainly because the oxyethylene group has the carbon dioxide affinity, and the solubility of the two types of surfactants in carbon dioxide increases with the increase of the polymerization degree of oxyethylene, but when the polymerization degree of oxyethylene is too high, the increase of the solubility in carbon dioxide becomes slow due to the increase of the molecular weight thereof, and the increase of the molecular weight thereof causes the increase of the lipophilicity thereof, which affects the adsorption thereof at the gas-liquid interface, thereby causing the decrease of the ability thereof to reduce the interfacial tension. From this experimental example, it is preferable that the optimum degree of polymerization of oxyethylene is 9.
Experimental example 2
The type of the alcohol auxiliary agent used by the gas-soluble surfactant for reducing the carbon dioxide/crude oil miscible pressure is preferably tested:
the experimental conditions are as follows:
(1) simulating the oil reservoir temperature: 60 ℃;
(2) experimental oil: the technical scheme is applicable to crude oil viscosity of less than 100mPa & s under the oil reservoir condition, and the degassed crude oil in the high 89 blocks of the victory oil field is selected in the experimental example, and belongs to typical compact oil reservoir blocks, wherein the crude oil viscosity is 24mPa & s under the oil reservoir condition;
(3) carbon dioxide: the purity is 99.9 percent, and the product is produced by Qingdao Tianyuan gas manufacturing company Limited;
(4) air-soluble surfactant: 2-Ethyl-1-hexanol-polyoxypropylene Polyoxyethylene Ether (fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene polyoxypropylene Ether) (2 EH-PO)5-EO9) Nonylphenol polyoxyethylene ether (NP-9).
(5) Methanol and glycol are common commercial products
(6) Tracker-H type interfacial tensiometer: manufactured by Teclis, France.
Purpose of the experiment:
simulating the process that the gas-soluble surfactant is contacted with crude oil after being dissolved and carried into a stratum by supercritical carbon dioxide, measuring the change of the interfacial tension of the carbon dioxide and the crude oil under the action of the gas-soluble surfactant by a pendant drop method, obtaining the minimum miscible phase pressure of the carbon dioxide and the crude oil before and after the gas-soluble surfactant is added by utilizing an interfacial tension disappearance method, and evaluating the influence rule of different alcohol auxiliary agents on the capability of the gas-soluble surfactant for reducing the minimum miscible phase pressure of the carbon dioxide and the crude oil.
Experimental procedure (experimental flow chart shown in fig. 5):
(1) testing the air tightness of the experimental device by using high-pressure nitrogen;
(2) sequentially cleaning the high-temperature high-pressure reaction kettle, the injection syringe and the straight needle by using acetone, absolute ethyl alcohol and distilled water;
(3) installing the syringe and the needle tube filled with the crude oil on a driving system;
(4) uniformly preparing an aerosol surfactant and methanol or glycol according to a certain mass ratio (1: 10), and then injecting a methanol or glycol solution of the aerosol surfactant and liquid carbon dioxide into a high-pressure closed container according to a certain mass ratio (1: 5) to uniformly prepare for later use;
(5) adjusting the temperature of the high-temperature high-pressure reaction kettle to 60 ℃, injecting a certain amount of methanol or glycol solution of the gas-soluble surfactant and liquid carbon dioxide into the high-temperature high-pressure reaction kettle, and adjusting the injection amount to reach the required experimental pressure after the temperature is stable;
(6) adjusting the base to enable the needle head to appear in the visual window, and driving the motor to enable the oil drops to form a downward suspension oil drop on the needle point of the syringe;
(7) input of CO in control system2And the oil drop density, the volume of the oil drop and the dynamic interfacial tension are measured in real time through a data image acquisition system;
(8) increasing the pressure, re-extruding oil drops, repeating the experiment, and measuring the interfacial tension of the carbon dioxide and the crude oil under different pressures;
(9) and obtaining the pressure when the interfacial tension is zero according to a linear extrapolation method, namely the minimum miscible pressure of the carbon dioxide and the crude oil.
The experimental results are as follows:
as shown in FIG. 8, the influence of various alcohol-based auxiliary agents on the miscible pressure of carbon dioxide and crude oil was measured when the polymerization degree of oxyethylene was 9. As can be seen from FIG. 8, methanol has little synergistic effect with two surfactants in the three auxiliary agents, which indicates that methanol can hardly help the two surfactants to dissolve in carbon dioxide, and the minimum miscible pressure reduction amplitude of the system is small; the ethanol and the surfactant have the best synergistic effect, can help the air-soluble surfactant to dissolve in carbon dioxide, and can better act on an oil-gas interface; the glycol and the surfactant have a certain synergistic effect, but the effect is not obvious. Only ethanol in the three adjuvants can produce synergistic effect with two surfactants, and the other two adjuvants are not suitable. Thus, the best results of ethanol with both surfactants are demonstrated by this experiment.
Experimental example 3
The amount of the aerosol surfactant and the ethanol auxiliary agent used by the gas soluble surfactant for reducing the carbon dioxide/crude oil miscible phase pressure is preferably tested:
the experimental conditions are as follows:
(1) simulating the oil reservoir temperature: 60 ℃;
(2) experimental oil: the technical scheme is applicable to crude oil viscosity of less than 100mPa & s under the oil reservoir condition, and the degassed crude oil in the high 89 blocks of the victory oil field is selected in the experimental example, and belongs to typical compact oil reservoir blocks, wherein the crude oil viscosity is 24mPa & s under the oil reservoir condition;
(3) carbon dioxide: the purity is 99.9 percent, and the product is produced by Qingdao Tianyuan gas manufacturing company Limited;
(4) air-soluble surfactant: 2-ethyl-1-hexanol-polyoxypropylene polyoxyethylene ether (fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene polyoxypropylene ether), n-5, m-9 (2 EH-PO)5-EO9) Nonylphenol polyoxyethylene ether, n ═ 9 (NP-9);
(5) the absolute ethyl alcohol is a common commercial product;
(6) Tracker-H type interfacial tensiometer: manufactured by Teclis, France;
purpose of the experiment:
simulating the process that the gas-soluble surfactant is contacted with crude oil after being dissolved and carried into a stratum by supercritical carbon dioxide, measuring the change of the interfacial tension of the carbon dioxide and the crude oil under the action of the gas-soluble surfactant by a pendant drop method, obtaining the minimum miscible phase pressure of the carbon dioxide and the crude oil before and after the gas-soluble surfactant is added by utilizing an interfacial tension disappearance method, and evaluating the influence of the dosage of the gas-soluble surfactant and ethanol on the performance of reducing the minimum miscible phase pressure of the carbon dioxide and the crude oil.
Experimental procedure (experimental flow chart shown in fig. 5):
(1) testing the air tightness of the experimental device by using high-pressure nitrogen;
(2) sequentially cleaning the high-temperature high-pressure reaction kettle, the injection syringe and the straight needle by using acetone, absolute ethyl alcohol and distilled water;
(3) installing the syringe and the needle tube filled with the crude oil on a driving system;
(4) uniformly preparing an aerosol surfactant and absolute ethyl alcohol according to a certain mass ratio, and then injecting an ethanol solution of the aerosol surfactant and liquid carbon dioxide into a high-pressure closed container according to a certain mass ratio to uniformly prepare for later use;
(5) adjusting the temperature of the high-temperature high-pressure reaction kettle to 60 ℃, injecting a certain amount of ethanol solution of the gas-soluble surfactant and liquid carbon dioxide into the high-temperature high-pressure reaction kettle, and adjusting the injection amount to reach the required experimental pressure after the temperature is stable;
(6) adjusting the base to enable the needle head to appear in the visual window, and driving the motor to enable the oil drops to form a downward suspension oil drop on the needle point of the syringe;
(7) input of CO in control system2And the oil drop density, the volume of the oil drop and the dynamic interfacial tension are measured in real time through a data image acquisition system;
(8) increasing the pressure, re-extruding oil drops, repeating the experiment, and measuring the interfacial tension of the carbon dioxide and the crude oil under different pressures;
(9) and obtaining the pressure when the interfacial tension is zero according to a linear extrapolation method, namely the minimum miscible pressure of the carbon dioxide and the crude oil.
The experimental results are as follows:
as shown in Table 1, Table 1 shows MMP and P of carbon dioxide and crude oil in the presence of different surfactants and ethanol contents determined by interfacial tension disappearance methodmax(ii) a The miscible pressure of carbon dioxide and crude oil was measured at different ratios of the addition of the aerosol surfactant to ethanol. As can be seen from Table 1, in the absence of ethanol, only 2EH-PO was added5-EO9Or NP-9 to supercritical carbon dioxide, and although both can be dissolved in supercritical carbon dioxide, the amount of dissolution is low under low pressure conditions, resulting in a high purity by supercritical processingThe interfacial carbon dioxide dissolves less surfactant carried to the gas-liquid interface and has weak ability to lower interfacial tension, so that its effect on MMP is not very significant, but when the pressure is higher, its dissolution amount increases, so that it causes P to be affectedmaxThe influence of (a) is significant. This shows that the two surfactants can only have better solubility in the supercritical carbon dioxide when the injection pressure is higher (generally about 20 MPa), and can only be injected into the formation to reduce the miscible pressure by the dissolution and entrainment of the supercritical carbon dioxide. Therefore, in order to reduce the requirement of the method on injection pressure, the aerosol surfactant and the absolute ethyl alcohol are prepared into an ethanol solution of the aerosol surfactant in a certain mass ratio in advance, so that the injection pressure required for dissolving the surfactant in the carbon dioxide is reduced, and the injection is facilitated.
In addition, it can be seen from table 1 that the addition of ethanol can significantly improve the performance of the surfactant in reducing the miscible pressure, indicating that ethanol can exert a good synergistic effect with the two surfactants. Particularly, when the mass ratio of the surfactant to the ethanol is 1: 10 when the system is added into liquid carbon dioxide when being prepared into ethanol solution of surfactant, and when the system is heated to a supercritical state, MMP and P of carbon dioxide and crude oil can be remarkably reducedmax. Therefore, the ethanol solution (without water) prepared with the aerosol surfactant in advance, which is preferred in the invention, is not a conventional aqueous solution of the aerosol surfactant, and not only is beneficial to dissolving the surfactant in carbon dioxide and is convenient for dissolving, carrying and injecting the carbon dioxide, but also can play a role in reducing the mixed phase pressure of the carbon dioxide and crude oil by the synergy of the ethanol and the surfactant.
TABLE 1
Experimental example 4
Long core displacement experimental study of gas-soluble surfactant to reduce minimum miscible pressure:
the experimental conditions are as follows:
(1) simulating the oil reservoir temperature: 60 ℃;
(2) experimental oil: crude oil degassed in 89 blocks of the Shengli oilfield;
(3) carbon dioxide: the purity is 99.9 percent, and the product is produced by Qingdao Tianyuan gas manufacturing company Limited;
(4) air-soluble surfactant: 2-ethyl-1-hexanol-polyoxypropylene polyoxyethylene ether (fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene polyoxypropylene ether), n-5, m-9 (2 EH-PO)5-EO9) Nonylphenol polyoxyethylene ether, n ═ 9 (NP-9);
(5) core displacement device: and selecting a sand filling pipe with the length of 1000mm and the diameter of 25.4mm to perform a long core displacement experiment to determine the minimum miscible pressure of the system. Compared with the conventional tubule model method, the method has the following advantages: (1) the diameter of the sand filling pipe is larger, sand filling is easier, sand filling can be more uniform and compact, and the porosity of each group of experiment can be similar by sand filling; (2) because of the shorter length, the resistance to fluid flow within the tube is much less; (3) because the internal diameter is great, can directly pour out the grit in the sand-packed pipe, consequently wash easier, guaranteed the cleanliness of sand-packed pipe and shortened the experimental period greatly. Therefore, the minimum miscible pressure of the system is measured by using a long core displacement method in the part.
Purpose of the experiment:
simulating the process that the gas-soluble surfactant is continuously contacted with crude oil in the stratum flowing process after the supercritical carbon dioxide is dissolved and carried into the stratum, and determining the crude oil recovery ratio of the carbon dioxide under different pressures to obtain a pressure-recovery ratio curve by plotting, wherein the pressure at the inflection point of the curve is the minimum miscible pressure of the carbon dioxide and the crude oil determined by the long core displacement method.
Experimental procedure (experimental flow chart shown in fig. 9):
(1) calculating CO required by experiment2Mass according to CO2The ethanol solution of the aerosol surfactant is added into a high-pressure closed container shown in figure 7 according to a certain mass ratio;
(2) then pumping liquid carbon dioxide into the high-pressure closed container shown in FIG. 7, heating and pressurizing the container to convert the container into a supercritical state, and controlling the container to reach the required experimental pressure;
(3) and (6) filling sand. Filling a core tube model with 80-120 meshes of quartz sand, wherein the sand filling process needs a small amount of times, and the core tube is continuously knocked to tightly fill the sand;
(4) vacuumizing and weighing. And vacuumizing the sand filling pipe, and weighing the dry weight of the core pipe after 4 hours.
(5) Saturated water: weighing wet weight of saturated water of the sand-packed pipe model, calculating pore volume, porosity and water permeability, if the permeability is between 1000mD and 1500mD, carrying out the next step, otherwise, repeating the steps (1) and (2);
(6) saturated oil: heating the oil sample to the experimental temperature, and carrying out oil-water displacement by a sand filling pipe of saturated water at the speed of 0.5 mL/min-1Until no water is discharged;
(7) CO injection2Oil displacement: connecting the instruments as shown in FIG. 9, placing in a thermostat, starting the displacement experiment after the experiment temperature is reached, setting the back pressure required by the experiment, opening the valve of the high-pressure closed container and the six-way valve, and keeping the constant injection speed at 0.3 mL/min-1And recording the output oil quantity and the displacement pump reading when 0.05PV is injected, and collecting the pressure of the inlet and the outlet of the long core by a pressure collecting box. Stopping displacement when the accumulated gas injection exceeds 1.2PV pore volume;
(8) cleaning a sand filling pipe: after the displacement experiment is finished, sand is taken out, and the sand filling pipe is cleaned by petroleum ether so as to be used in the next group of experiments.
The experimental results are as follows:
as shown in fig. 10, the cumulative recovery of pure carbon dioxide displacement crude oil under different pressures was measured by using the long core displacement method, and as can be seen from fig. 10, when the pressure is small (15.56MPa, 16.92MPa, 17.82MPa), the ultimate recovery rate increases very quickly, and at this time, miscible phase is not reached, when the pressure is large (19.42MPa, 21.06MPa, 23.74MPa), the ultimate recovery rate can reach 92% at the maximum, and at this time, the oil-gas two-phase miscible phase, the minimum miscible phase pressure of carbon dioxide and crude oil two-phase is at the inflection point, and the minimum miscible phase pressure is 18.36 MPa.
Similarly, the minimum miscible pressures of the carbon dioxide and the crude oil after the addition of the aerosol surfactant are respectively tested according to the method are shown in table 2, and table 2 shows the minimum miscible pressures of the carbon dioxide and the crude oil under different surfactant and ethanol contents determined based on a long core displacement method.
TABLE 2
As can be seen from Table 2, in the absence of ethanol, only 2EH-PO was added5-EO9Or NP-9 is added into supercritical carbon dioxide, and the supercritical carbon dioxide is dissolved and carried with the surfactant to be injected into the rock core, so that the effect of reducing the interfacial tension can be achieved.
2EH-PO was compared with "No. 3" and "No. 6" in Table 25-EO9Or NP-9 and ethanol are not mixed in the early stage, but are respectively added into the supercritical carbon dioxide, and the effect of reducing the minimum miscible pressure is not achieved.
Firstly preparing ethanol solution of surfactant according to a certain mass ratio, then mixing with liquid carbon dioxide, heating and pressurizing to supercritical state, and then 2EH-PO5-EO9The addition of the ethanol solution or the ethanol solution of NP-9 can obviously improve the performance of the surfactant for reducing the miscible pressure, which shows that the ethanol can play a good synergistic effect with the two surfactants. Particularly, when the mass ratio of the surfactant to the ethanol is 1: 10 when preparing ethanol solution of surfactant, adding the system into liquid carbon dioxide, heating to supercritical state, and adding ethanolThe surfactant and the surfactant are cooperated on the interface of the carbon dioxide and the crude oil to reduce the interfacial tension, and the addition of the ethanol can improve the polarization effect of the supercritical carbon dioxide, is beneficial to the supercritical carbon dioxide to extract light components in the crude oil, and can remarkably reduce the minimum miscible pressure of the carbon dioxide and the crude oil; the ethanol related by the invention can not only improve the dissolving amount of the surfactant in the carbon dioxide, but also regulate and control the distribution coefficient of the surfactant in the carbon dioxide and crude oil phases, thereby regulating the migration depth of the surfactant along with the carbon dioxide in the stratum and improving the crude oil recovery ratio of the carbon dioxide.
Example 1
A method for reducing the minimum miscible pressure of carbon dioxide and crude oil based on an aerosol surfactant comprises the following steps:
FIG. 11 is a control flow diagram of a method for reducing minimum miscible pressure of carbon dioxide and crude oil for reservoirs of different depths in which the method of the present embodiment is implemented, comprising: the system comprises a liquid carbon dioxide tank truck 1, a high-pressure storage tank 2, a high-pressure stirring tank 3, ground pumping equipment 4, a heating device 5, an injection well 6, ground pumping equipment 7, an injection well 8, a deep oil reservoir 9 and a shallow oil reservoir 10.
Firstly, mixing a fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene polyoxypropylene ether or nonylphenol polyoxyethylene ether medicament and absolute ethyl alcohol according to a weight part ratio of 1: (10-20) adding the mixture into a high-pressure storage tank 2, and uniformly mixing for later use.
Then, the liquid carbon dioxide in the liquid carbon dioxide tank truck 1 and the prepared fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene polyoxypropylene ether ethanol solution or nonylphenol polyoxyethylene ether ethanol solution in the high-pressure storage tank 2 are injected into a high-pressure stirring tank 3 according to a certain mass ratio and are uniformly mixed for later use. Wherein, when the target oil reservoir is the deep oil reservoir 9, the mixing proportion is as follows: the fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene polyoxypropylene ether ethanol solution or the nonylphenol polyoxyethylene ether ethanol solution and the liquid carbon dioxide are in a mass ratio of 15-25%; when the target oil deposit is a shallow oil deposit 10, the mixing proportion is as follows: the fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene polyoxypropylene ether ethanol solution or the nonylphenol polyoxyethylene ether ethanol solution and the liquid carbon dioxide are in a proportion of 10-20% by mass.
When the target oil reservoir is a deep oil reservoir 9, the fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene polyoxypropylene ether ethanol solution or the nonylphenol polyoxyethylene ether ethanol solution which is prepared in the high-pressure stirring tank 3 and liquid carbon dioxide are injected into the target layer through an injection well 8 by using ground pumping equipment 7, the injected liquid carbon dioxide is gradually changed into a supercritical state in a shaft along with the increase of the injection depth because the burial depth of the deep oil reservoir 9 is more than 1500m, at the moment, the fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene polyoxypropylene ether or the nonylphenol polyoxyethylene ether in the liquid carbon dioxide is dissolved in the supercritical carbon dioxide under the auxiliary action of ethanol, the ethanol and the fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene polyoxypropylene ether or the nonylphenol polyoxyethylene ether are dissolved into a stratum through the supercritical carbon dioxide, and are contacted with crude oil under the good diffusion mass transfer effect of the supercritical carbon dioxide, the dissolution action is generated, the interfacial tension of the carbon dioxide and the crude oil is reduced, and the minimum miscible pressure of the carbon dioxide and the crude oil is further reduced, so that the injected carbon dioxide and the crude oil are easy to form a miscible region, and miscible displacement of reservoir oil is realized.
When the target oil reservoir is a shallow oil reservoir 10, because the buried depth is less than 1500m, liquid carbon dioxide is difficult to be fully heated and converted into a supercritical state in a shaft, so that a surfactant and ethanol cannot be fully dissolved in the shaft, and because the shaft depth is shallow, the pressure required by pumping is small, and the pressure required by construction is easy to realize by ground pumping equipment, aiming at the shallow oil reservoir 10, the fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene polyoxypropylene ether ethanol solution or the nonylphenol polyoxyethylene ether ethanol solution prepared in the high-pressure stirring tank 3 and the liquid carbon dioxide are heated and pressurized on the ground through a heating device 5 by the ground pumping equipment 4, so that the liquid carbon dioxide can be converted into the supercritical state when reaching an injection well 6, and the fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene polyoxypropylene ether or the nonylphenol polyoxyethylene ether in the liquid carbon dioxide is dissolved in the supercritical carbon dioxide under the auxiliary action of ethanol, the supercritical carbon dioxide is dissolved and carries ethanol and fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene polyoxypropylene ether or nonylphenol polyoxyethylene ether to enter a stratum, the ethanol and fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene polyoxypropylene ether or nonylphenol polyoxyethylene ether are contacted with crude oil, the ethanol and fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene polyoxypropylene ether or nonylphenol polyoxyethylene ether are fully contacted with the crude oil under the good diffusion mass transfer effect of the supercritical carbon dioxide, the dissolving effect is generated, the interfacial tension of the carbon dioxide and the crude oil is reduced, the minimum miscible pressure of the carbon dioxide is further reduced, the injected carbon dioxide and the crude oil are easy to form a miscible phase region, and miscible phase oil displacement.
The alcohol solution of the fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene polyoxypropylene ether or the alcohol solution of the nonylphenol polyoxyethylene ether adopted in the embodiment does not contain water, so that the injection capability is strong no matter the alcohol solution is mixed with liquid carbon dioxide for injection or mixed with the liquid carbon dioxide and then heated and pressurized on the ground to form supercritical state injection in the injection process, the injection method is particularly suitable for unconventional oil reservoirs such as ultra-low permeability oil reservoirs and compact oil reservoirs with extremely low permeability, and the defect that a miscible phase pressure system is difficult to inject into a stratum due to the fact that water cannot be injected is avoided. After the system is injected into a stratum, the system can be efficiently and fully contacted with crude oil under the action of good mass transfer diffusion of supercritical carbon dioxide, and the minimum miscible pressure is reduced. The problems of insufficient contact, unobvious change of gas-liquid interface characteristics and the like caused by the existence of a water phase are avoided.