WO1997045625A1 - Coated products and use thereof in oil fields - Google Patents
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- Scale inhibitors are used in production wells to stop scaling in the formation and/or in the production lines down hole and at the surface Scale is a slightly soluble inorganic salt, such as barium or strontium sulphate, calcium carbonate, calcium sulphate or calcium fluoride.
- barium or strontium sulphate calcium carbonate, calcium sulphate or calcium fluoride.
- Scale build-up decreases permeability of the formation, reduces well productivity and shortens the lifetime of production equipment.
- In order to clean scaled-up wells and equipment it is necessary to stop the production ie by killing the well which is time-consuming and costly
- an aqueous solution of a scale inhibitor is injected by force into the formation via a production well-bore.
- a known scale inhibitor used in such treatments include polyvinyl sulphonate.
- the production well is shut-in during which time the scale inhibitor is absorbed within the formation and the inhibitor is slowly desorbed into the fluids in the formation to inhibit scale deposition.
- the production well is returned on stream.
- the fluids produced therefrom are analysed to determine the scale-inhibitor concentration. When the concentration of inhibitor in the fluids has reduced to a certain level then further treatments will be required.
- An aqueous-based scale inhibitor such as polyvinyl sulphonate has a short lifetime of a few weeks.
- coating solid inhibitors in particular scale inhibitors, can significantly extend the lifetime of the inhibitor thereby increasing the cost effectiveness of inhibitor treatments.
- the present invention relates to an oil field production chemical in the form of particles each carrying a coating, usually of a dispersing agent.
- Another aspect of the invention provides a suspension of the coated particles of the invention in an inert oil
- Yet another aspect of the invention provides a process for the manufacture of an oil field production chemical in the form of particles carrying a coating wherein a solid particulate oil field production chemical is comminuted in tht presence of a dispersion of a coating agent in an oil, in particular after the solid particulate chemical has been obtained by spray drying a solution thereof.
- the invention also provides for a method of reducing the formation of a separate phase from a liquid phase in a subterranean environment producing oil, or removing said separate phase, which comprises injecting particles comprising an oil field production chemical carrying a coating of this invention into said environment and preferably releasing said chemical into said liquid phase.
- the oil field production chemical is usually a charged compound e.g an organic or inorganic salt, but may be a polar compound. Preferably, it is a solid or may be a liquid adsorbed into or onto a solid. Usually it is an inhibitor of deposition of solids, e.g. wax, asphaltenes or scale or of the growth of solids e.g a scale inhibitor.
- the scale inhibitor may be any suitable scale inhibitor used for the purpose of inhibiting scale deposition in well bore formations. It may be a water soluble organic molecule with at least 2 carboxylic and/or phosphonic acid and/or sulphonic acid groups e.g. 2-30 such groups.
- the scale inhibitor is polymeric, or may be monomeric with at least one hydroxyl group and/or amino nitrogen atom, especially in a hydroxycarboxylic acid or hydroxy or amino phosphonic or sulphonic acid.
- examples of such compounds are aliphatic phosphonic acids with 2-50 carbons, such as hydroxyethyl di phosphonic acid, and aminoalkyl phosphonic acids, eg optionally hydroxy substituted poly amino methylene phosphonates with 2-10 N atoms eg each bearing at least one methylene phosphonic acid group; examples of the latter are ethylene diamine tetra (methylene phosphonate), diethylene triamine penta (methylene phosphonate) and preferably the polyalkylene triamine and tetramine poly methylene phosphonates with 2-4 methylene groups between each N atom, at least 2 of the numbers of methylene groups in each alkylene being different (eg as described further in EP479462, the disclosure of which is herein incorporated by
- scale inhibitors are polycarboxylic acids such as lactic, or tartaric acids, and polymeric anionic compounds such as polyvinyl sulphonic acid and poly(meth)acrylic acids and copolymers thereof, especially with 10-90 : 90-10 molar ratio of structural vinyl sulphonic groups to acrylic acid, optionally with at least some phosphonyl or phosphinyl groups as in phosphinyl polyacrylates.
- the scale inhibitors may be in the form of their free acids but are usually at least partly in the form of their alkali metal eg Na salts.
- the inhibitor is used in the suspension in the form of solid particles having a particle size sufficiently small that the particles disperse in the oily continuous phase. If the particles are too large they will tend to settle out and potentially lead to agglomeration problems.
- the particle size may be 100% less than 10 microns, preferably 100% less than 7 microns and especially 100% less than 5 microns. Preferably the particle size is not less than 25 nanometres and advantageously not less than 200 nanometres.
- the average particle size is usually between 1 and 3 microns.
- the inhibitors are usually obtained in aqueous solutions; these are dried. Suitable methods of drying include, but are not limited to, spray drying, to obtain a fine powder. The powder then may then, if required, be comminuted using any suitable technique, for example, jet-milling or ball-milling, eg. wet-milled to obtain particles of the required size e.g. 25-250 microns. Other suitable comminution techiques are described in Section 8 Perry's Chemical Engineers Handbook, 4th Edition, 1963.
- the inhibitors may be obtained as liquids adsorbed into or onto a solid.
- the solid may be an inert particulate carrier which may be inorganic e.g silica, alumina or salt or it may be organic e.g a naturally occurring polymer e.g starch or a synthetic polymer e.g a polyurethane or a polyamide.
- the solid may, if required, be comminuted to obtain particles of the required size using any suitable technique, for example, jet-milling or ball-milling, eg. wet-milled. Other suitable comminution techiques are described in Section 8 Perry's Chemical Engineers Handbook, 4th Edition, 1963.
- the particulate solid inhibitor may then be mixed with a dispersion of a suitable coating agent as described below in a suitable oil e.g an aliphatic hydrocarbon such as Isopar M oil.
- a suitable oil e.g an aliphatic hydrocarbon such as Isopar M oil.
- the coating agent may be present in the oil e.g 1-10 % by weight, especially 1-5% (based on total solids).
- the mixture of inhibitor and dispersion may then be comminuted using any suitable technique, e.g wet milled, to obtain a suspension of coated inhibitor particles of the required size e.g 1-10 microns.
- the suspension may then be filtered to obtain coated inhibitor particles.
- the coating may be continuous or discontinuous and may comprise one or more layers.
- the relative weight of the coating to the solid particle is usually less than lOg coating dry weight per lOOg of dry weight solid, preferably 0.4-1 Og and especially 0.5-5g.
- the coating covers at least part of the surface of the particles, such as all of the surface, but preferably only partly covers the surface, eg. to 25-75% of the total surface area.
- the coating is preferably discontinuous
- the coating may be of a dispersing agent, which usually may be substantially water insoluble e.g. e.g.
- the dispersing agent usually may be oil soluble in a liquid aliphatic hydrocarbon of 5-10 carbons to an extent of at least 0.1% by weight in said hydrocarbon e.g polyether or polyamine derivatives or it may be substantially oil insoluble e.g. to an extent of less than 0.01% by weight at 20°C e.g carbon backbone polymers having pendant nitrogen and/or oxygen atoms.
- the dispersing agent is one allowing dispersion of solid inorganic particles in non-aqueous systems, such as liquid hydrocarbons.
- the dispersing agent which may be synthetic or naturally occurring, may be polymeric or non-polymeric, among classes of both of which are cationic, non-ionic and anionic compounds.
- the dispersing agents, especially the polymers may have both hydrophilic groups, eg carboxylic acid, hydroxyl, carboxylic ester and/or nitrogeneous groups such as amides and/or amines, and hydrophobic groups, e.g. long chain alkyl groups in an ester or amide environment.
- polymeric cationic dispersants are quaternised polyacrylamides, such as the ones available commercially from Nalco and sold under the TradeMark 'Nafloc', while examples of anionic ones are those with carboxylic acid and long chain carboxylic ester groups such as the ones commercially available from ICI and sold under either the Trade Mark 'Hypermer' or the Trade Mark ' Atlox'
- the Hypermer/Atlox range of polymers are of the comb type Examples of this type of polymer are oligomeric polyesters, for example, oligome ⁇ c polyacid polyesters and amine derivatives thereof Examples of polymenc non-ionic dispersants are descnbed further below, but are p ⁇ marily in one of three classes, polyether or polyamine derivatives and carbon backbone polymers with pendant oxygen and/or nitrogen groups Examples of non-polymeric dispersants are surfactants, in general, with more details below and partial esters of a polyol and a fatty acid and naturally occurring phospholipids such as le
- the coating may also be a copolymer of an ester, which may be formed from a hydroxyl compound and an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid, and a polar ethylenically unsaturated monomer
- the ethylenically unsaturated group in the acid may be in the alpha, beta or gamma position or may be at a different location relative to the carboxyl group
- Preferred acids have 3-20 carbons, such as 3-12, in particular, alkenoic and aralkenoic acids with 3-6 or 9-12 carbons respectively Examples of the acids are acrylic, methacrylic, crotonic and cinnamic acids
- the hydroxyl compound is usually an alcohol and may be of formula ROH where R is a hydrocarbyl group, preferably an alkyl group, e g of 1-30 e g 2-30 such as 1-6, 2-6, 7-30 or 8-24 carbons, an alkenyl group e g of 2-20 carbons ,
- the coating may also be of a surfactant, such as quaternary ammonium surfactants with 1-3 aliphatic groups of at least 6 carbons, especially an alkyl group of 8-20 carbons, and 1-3 organic groups of 1-20 carbons, in particular alkyl groups of 1-6 carbons e.g methyl or benzyl, such as cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide, didodecyl dimethyl ammonium bromide or Aliquat 336.
- the surfactant may also be an alkoxylated quaternary ammonium or an alkoxylated alcohol or phenol or of an oligomer such as ethylene oxide/propylene oxide oligomers or mono- or di- ethers thereof.
- the HLB value for the surfactant is usually less than 6 e.g. 1-4.
- the coating may be a glycol ether polymer of formula I
- R 4 is H or an organic group e.g. a hydrocarbyl group or a residue formed by removal of a hydroxyl group from a partial ester of a fatty acid and a polyol e.g of 2-6 carbons and 2-6 hydroxyl groups, or a siloxane, or an acyl group e.g.
- R 4 O group is replaced by an R 11 NH group in which R 11 represents an organic group of at least 6 carbons, R 1 is an ethylene group, each of R 2 and R 3 , which are the same or different is a propylene or butylene group or R 3 may be an ethylene group, m is 1-100, n is 0-100, p is 0-5 and the sum of m + n is at least 15.
- the group R 4 may be an organic group of 1-12 carbons, in particular an organic hydrocarbyl group, as defined above for group R
- alkyl group examples are methyl, ethyl, propyl, isopropyl, n-butyl, isobutyi, sec butyl, n-amyl, n-hexyl or octyl while examples of the alkenyl group are vinyl, allyl and crotonyl
- alkyl group examples include methyl, ethyl, propyl, isopropyl, n-butyl, isobutyi, sec butyl, n-amyl, n-hexyl or octyl
- alkenyl group examples are vinyl, allyl and crotonyl
- cyclo alkyl examples of cyclo alkyl are cyclopentyl and cyclohexyl
- example of aryl examples are phenyl and alkyl phenyl especially with 1-20, e.g. 6- 16 carbons in the alkyl group , such as nonyl-phen
- the group R 4 may be a siloxane group e.g the residue formed by removal of a hydroxyl group from a polymeric silanol, such as a poly(dimethylsilox)anol
- the group R 4 may also be an optionally substituted residue formed by removal of an hydroxyl group from a phenol-aldehyde resin , especially a phenol- formaldehyde resin wherein the substituent in at least one phenolic ring may be at least one of a group R 12 and a -SO 3 H group.
- R 12 may be an alkyl group of 1-40 carbon atoms e.g. 1-6 or 10-28 carbons.
- alkyl group examples are methyl, ethyl, n-hexyl, dodecanyl, lauryl, and stearyl.
- the substituent may be in any position in the ring but may preferably be in the para position.
- the phenol aldehyde resin may be a novolac or resole resin. In such glycol ether polymers, n and p are preferably 0.
- the organic group R 4 may also be a residue formed by removal of-a— hydroxyl group from a partial ester of a fatty acid and a polyol e.g of 2-6 carbons and 2-6 hydroxyl groups.
- the fatty acid may be saturated or unsaturated.
- the saturated fatty acid is preferably linear, but may be branched (e.g. with a branch methyl group).
- the acid usually contains 12-40 carbons such as 15-25 carbons, especially 16, 18, 20, 22, or 24 carbons. Examples of suitable acids are lauric, myristic, palmitic, hexadecanoic, stearic, octadecanoic, eicosanoic, docosanoic, tetracosanoic acids.
- the unsaturated fatty acid is preferably linear, but may be branched (e.g. with a branch methyl group). It may contain at least one unsaturated group e.g 1-4 such as 1 or 2 or 3 or 4, especially 1 unsaturated group.
- the unsaturated group may be alpha, beta, gamma, or in another location, to the carboxylic group or when more than one ethylenically unsaturated group is present, a mixture thereof.
- the unsaturated group may have a cis or trans configuration or when more than one ethylenically unsaturated group is present each may have a cis or trans configuration; the unsaturated group may be conjugated or non-conjugated, especially separated by 1-3 e.g. 1 carbon atom.
- the acid usually contains 12-40 carbons such as 15-25 carbons, especially 16, 18, 20, 22, or 24 carbons.
- suitable acids are palmitoleic, hexadecenoic, oleic, octadecenoic, eicosenoic, linoleic, and linolenic acids.
- the group R n may be an organic group of at least 6 carbons, in particular an organic hydrocarbyl group, as defined above for group R
- the group R 1 is an 1,2-ethylene group.
- the group R 2 or R 3 may be a 1,3- propylene or 1,2-propylene (which is preferred) or 1 ,4-butylene or 1,2-butylene (i.e. 2-ethyl- 1,2-ethylene or 1,3-butylene), while R 3 may also be a 1,2-ethylene group.
- the sum of n, m and n, or m, n and p may be 5-150, in particular 9-100.
- the average molecular weight of the glycol ether may be 200-15000, such as 1000-12000, in particular 3000-9000.
- suitable polyether glycol polymers of formula (I) are alkylphenol polyethylenoxylates, such as nonyl-phenol polyethoxylate and ones available commercially and sold under the Trade Mark of Witconol NS108LQ by Witco and Tegopren 7008 by T H Goldschmidt and non-ionic block copolymers, for example ethylene oxide/propylene oxide oligomers, such as the one sold under the Trade Mark Atlox 4912 by ICI.
- suitable polyoxyethylene amine derivatives of formula (I) are fatty amine derivatives. , —
- the glycol ether polymer (I) may be a polyethyleneoxylated compound or may be a block or random copolymer.
- the coating may comprise one of the above polymers or dispersing agents or more than 1 e.g 1-4 such as 2 or 3 .
- the coating may comprise a mixture of glycol ether polymers of formula (I), which may be demulsifiers, in particular, ones of different type, and preferably a mixture of at least two different polyether glycol polymers of formula (I) selected from polymers wherein i) R 4 is H, ii) R 4 is an organic group of 1-12 carbons, iii) R 4 is a residue formed by removal of a hydroxyl group from an optionally substituted phenol formaldehyde resin and iv) R 4 is R ll NH.
- i) R 4 is H
- R 4 is an organic group of 1-12 carbons
- R 4 is a residue formed by removal of a hydroxyl group from an optionally substituted phenol formaldehyde resin
- R 4 is R ll NH.
- Particularly preferred mixtures are those from at least one polymer (iii) or at least one polymer (iv) and at least one polymer (i) or at least one polymer (ii) and preferably wherein at least one polymer is a polyethyleneoxy compound and at least one polymer is a polyethyleneoxy- propyleneoxy compound.
- Suitable mixtures are oxyalkylated alkylphenol resin and polyoxyalkylated glycols, especially ethyleneoxy/propyleneoxy block copolymers, polyoxyalkylene glycols and oxyalkylated amines or oxyalkylated alkylphenol formaldehyde resins and polyoxyalkylated glycols which are sold as demulsifiers RP 968, RP6150 and RP 6245 by Petrolite Limited
- the coating may also be of a condensate with structural units derived from i) an aliphatic carboxylic acid of at least 6 carbon atoms and ii) a polyamine having at least two amine groups.
- the carboxylic acid (i) usually has 12-40 carbons such as 15-25 carbons, especially 16, 18, 20, 22 or 24 carbons.
- the acid may be saturated or unsaturated .
- the saturated acid is preferably linear, but may be branched (e.g with a branch methyl group). Examples of suitable acids are lauric, myristic, palmitic, hexadecanoic, stearic, octadecanoic, eicosanoic, docosanoic, tetracosanoic acids.
- the polyamine usually has at least 2 primary and/or secondary amine groups, especially at least two terminal amine groups, in particular primary amine groups bridged by a carbon chain of e.g 2-12 carbons, such as an alkylene diamine e.g ethylene diamine, the carbon chain, optionally and especially preferably interrupted by 1 or more nitrogen atoms in an amine group, such as in a polyalkylene imine, each alkylene group being preferably of e.g 2-6, especially 2-3 carbons, such as polyethylenimine.
- a carbon chain of e.g 2-12 carbons such as an alkylene diamine e.g ethylene diamine
- the carbon chain optionally and especially preferably interrupted by 1 or more nitrogen atoms in an amine group, such as in a polyalkylene imine, each alkylene group being preferably of e.g 2-6, especially 2-3 carbons, such as polyethylenimine.
- the number of amide groups present in the condensate is at least one per molecule and preferably with an average of greater than 1 e.g 1-4 and the total number of amide groups present in the condensate is usually less than the total number of nitrogen atoms in condensate, the ratio-e-f amide groups to toatal nitrogen atoms being preferably e.g 1 : 1.1-4.
- preferred condensates are fatty acid polyamine condensates especially fatty acid polyalkylene polyimine condensates; those condensates sold under the Trade Mark 'Atlox LP6' or 'Hypermer LP6' are preferred.
- the coating may also be of a polymer having a hydrocarbon backbone with at least one pendant polar group wherein the polar group is oxygen and/or nitrogen containing.
- the nitrogen containing polar group may be, for example, an N- heterocyclic carbonyl group.
- the oxygen containing polar group may be, for example, an ester group e.g. an organocarbonyloxy or an organocarboxyl group or a hydroxy group.
- the polymer may be an aliphatic (N-heterocyclic carbonyl) polymer with a hydrocarbon backbone. Its molecular weight is usually 5000 to 1000000 eg 10000 to 1000000 such as 1000 to 50000.
- the polymer has a hydrocarbon chain with pendant N-heterocyclic carbonyl groups, with the bonding to the chain via the heteroring -N- atom.
- the carbonyl group may be in any position in the N heteroring, but is especially alpha to the N hetero atom, so the N-heterocyclic rings are preferably derived from lactams, especially of 4-8 eg 5 or 6 ring atoms, such as those derived from butyric, pentenoic, pentanoic or hexanoic acid lactams (or 2- pyrrolidone, 2-pyridone, 2-piperidone or omega caprolactam).
- the aliphatic group or groups in the polymer may be part of the hydrocarbon chain, or bonded to it or to the N-heterocyclic carbonyl ring; the aliphatic group may be linear or branched and maybe alkyl eg of 1 - 40 eg 2 - 25 carbons or alkenyl eg of 2 - 20 carbons, especially methyl, ethyl, butyl or octyl, tetradecyl, hexadecyl, octadecyl, eicosyl, tricosyl or ethylene, butylene or octylene.
- the molar ratio of aliphatic group to heterocyclic carbonyl group in the polymer is usually 1 :99 to 20:80 eg 5 - 15 : 95- 85.
- the polymer may be a copolymer having repeat units derived from at least one monomer which is an optionally alkyl substituted vinyl N-heterocyclic carbonyl compound) and at least one monomer which is an olefin; this copolymer may be simple copolymer formed by copolymerization of the monomers or a graft copolymer formed by grafting the olefin onto a polymer of the N-heterocyclic monomer.
- the polymer may also be an alkylated derivative of a polymer of an optionally alkyl substituted (vinyl N-heterocyclic compound) especially a homopolymer of such a compound.
- the optionally alkyl substituted vinyl N-heterocyclic carbonyl comp ⁇ und may be of general formula:
- R 5 R 6 C CR 7 R 8 wherein each of R 8 , R ⁇ and R 7 , which may be the same or different, represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group eg of 1 - 20 carbons, such as methyl, ethyl, butyl, hexyl, decyl or hexadecyl, and R ⁇ represents an N-heterocyclic carbonyl group with the free valency on the N atom; preferably the N heterocyclic carbonyl group is as described above.
- R 8 , R ⁇ and R 7 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group eg of 1 - 20 carbons, such as methyl, ethyl, butyl, hexyl, decyl or hexadecyl
- R ⁇ represents an N-heterocyclic carbonyl group with the free valency on the N atom; preferably the N heterocyclic carbonyl group is as described above.
- the N-heterocyclic ring may contain 1-3 ring N atoms but especially 1 ring N atom and 0 - 2 other ring hetero atoms eg 0 or 5, but especially no ring hetero atom; the ring may contain in total 1 or 2 rings, which may be saturated or ethylenically unsaturated such as a pyrrolidine, piperidine, quinoline or pyridine ring.
- R ⁇ , R 7 and R 8 are hydrogen and R ⁇ represents an N- (pyrrolidone), N-(2 pyrid-2-one) or N-(piperid-2-one) group.
- the olefin is preferably butylene octene-1 or dodecene-1, hexa decene- 1, octadecene- 1 , eicosene-1 or tricosene- 1.
- the polymer may also be a homo or copolymer of an alkyl substituted N-
- alkenyl heterocyclic compound in which the alkyl substitutuent may be in the N- heteroring and/or present in the alkenyl side chain; the alkyl substituent may be as is preferred for the aliphatic group on the polymer described above.
- the polymer may have structural units from an N-vinyl-alkyl ring substituted heterocyclic carbonyl compound, such as N-vinyl-3 -methyl pyrrolid-2-one and/or from an N- butenyl-heterocycle carbonyl compound, such as N-butenyl-pyrrolid-2-one.
- Preferred polymers of this type are aliphatic (N-heterocyclic carbonyl) polymers with units derived from N-vinyl pyrrolid-2-one and butylene, octylene, dodecylene, hexadecylene (sold as Antaron V216), eicosylene (sold as Antaron V220) and tricosylene; the Antaron products are sold by International Speciality Products of Wayne, N.J., USA
- the coating may also be of an aliphatic polymer having a hydrocarbon backbone with at least one pendant oxygen containing group with bonding of the backbone chain directly to an oxygen atom of the group.
- the group may be, for example an organooxy carbonyl function or a hydroxy function or especiaUy-both.
- suitable organo carboxyl groups are ones derived from an acid of formula R ⁇ C O2H where R ⁇ is as defined above for group R, especially derived from acetic acid.
- the polymer may be of a monomer (1) with structural units from vinyl carboxylate esters such as vinyl acetate or vinyl propionate, and optionally at least one monomer (2) which is a monomer with structural units from 'vinyl alcohol'.
- Its molecular weight may be 5000 to 1000000 e.g 10000 to 1000000 such as 12000 to 200000.
- polymers are polyvinyl acetate and poly(vinyl acetate-co-vinyl alcohol), such as partly hydrolysed polyvinyl acetate.
- the polymer may also comprise structural units from a monomer (2) reacted with an aldehyde, especially an aliphatic aldehyde of 2-6 carbons, such as acetaldehyde or butyraldehyde or an aromatic aldehyde e.g of 7-10 carbons, such as benzaldehyde.
- Its molecular weight may be 5000 to 1000000 e.g 10000 to 1000000 such as 12000 to 200000.
- the coating may also be of a naturally occurring phospholipid, such as that derived from soya bean oil.
- the phospholipid may be substantially pure, but may be used as a mixture with glycerides.
- An example of such a phospholipid is lecithin.
- polymeric ones in particular polyethers, especially non-ionic block copolymers and polyether siloxanes, polyamines, especially fatty acid polyamine condensates and also polymers with a hydrocarbon backbone and pendant nitrogen or pendant oxygen as further described above.
- the coating may be applied to the inhibitor particles by any suitable method.
- the inhibitor particles may be obtained either as a wet or dry coated product i.e obtained, respectively, in the presence or absence of a liquid diluent .
- Methods of obtaining a dry coated product include applying a solution of the coating agent to a spray-dried, pre-comminuted, for example, a pre-ball-milled inhibitor or applying a solution of the coating agent to a spray-dried inhibitor, followed by comminuting, for example, ball-milling.
- Methods of obtaining a wet product include adding a solution of a coating agent to the inhibitor particles whilst wet-milling the particles.
- the wet-milling may be carried out in the presence of an oil, for example, diesel oil or kerosene.
- an oil for example, diesel oil or kerosene.
- the contact of the particles of oil field production chemical and the polymer or dispersing agent causes the polymer or dispersing agent to adhere to at least-part of the surface of the particle
- the coated solid inhibitor may be isolated from its production medium before dispersion in an oil, unless it is made in that oil in which case it may be used without isolation.
- the inhibitor is present as a dispersion in an oil which may be a liquid hydrocarbon, for example, diesel oil or kerosene
- concentration of coated inhibitor in the oil is usually 10-50%, preferably 20-30%.
- the coated inhibitor is usually sold as a concentrate in the oil, ready for dilution prior to use
- the coated inhibitor provides controlled release of the inhibitor into the formation and/or the produced fluids. Controlled release is advantageous in that it extends the lifetime of the inhibitor and reduces the number of treatments required Consequently production downtime and chemical costs are reduced
- coated scale inhibitor of the present invention is usually injected into a formation under pressure, preferably via a production well-bore
- the well-bore is then preferably shut-in for 2-50 hours, for example, 5-15 hours.
- the scale inhibitor particles are believed to become trapped in the formation matrix and then subsequently dissolve at a reduced rate into the fluids present in the formation and the produced fluids produced therefrom After shut-in the production well is returned on-stream Compared to an aqueous based scale inhibitor the oil based inhibitor suspension of the present invention allows the well to be returned to full production more quickly and stay there for longer
- the production fluids may be analysed e g at the surface in the produced fluid or preferably in any produced water separated from that fluid, to monitor the inhibitor concentration to determine the need for further scale inhibitor treatments
- the concentration of inhibitor present in the production fluids may be l-200ppm.
- the invention is also applicable to other oil field production chemicals, which reduce the formation of a separate phase from a liquid phase in a subterranean environment producing oil, such as those which reduce solid deposits or solid growths of e.g scale or wax or asphaltenes or corrosion, such as scale inhibitors or wax inhibitors or asphaltene inhibitors or corrosion inhibitors, or which remove said separate phase, e.g. which remove gas from oil, such as in foams, or break liquid mixtures, such as emulsions e.g demulsifiers.
- oil field production chemicals which reduce the formation of a separate phase from a liquid phase in a subterranean environment producing oil, such as those which reduce solid deposits or solid growths of e.g scale or wax or asphaltenes or corrosion, such as scale inhibitors or wax inhibitors or asphaltene inhibitors or corrosion inhibitors, or which remove said separate phase, e.g. which remove gas from oil, such as in foams, or break liquid mixtures, such as emulsions e.g demul
- corrosion inhibitors are compounds for inhibiting corrosion on steel, especially in anaerobic conditions, and may especially be film formers capable of being deposited as a film on a metal e.g. a steel surface such as a pipeline wall.
- Such compounds may be cationic surfactants especially quaternary ammonium salts, which contain at least one hydrophobic group, usually an alkyl group of 8-24 carbons such as 12-18 carbons, e.g. lauryl, cetyl or stearyl, or an aromatic hydrocarbyl group e.g. an (optionally alkyl substituted) benzyl or phenyl group such as 8-20 carbon alkyl substituted aromatic e.g.
- dodecylbenzyl and C12-I6 alkyl benzyl There may be 1 or 2 such hydrophobic groups which may be the same or different, the other 3 or 2 groups bonded to nitrogen in the quaternary salt being organic especially hydrocarbyl, in particular of 1-7 carbon atoms, such as alkyl or alkenyl, in particular methyl, ethyl, propyl or butyl.
- the salts are water soluble, in particular halides such as chloride or bromide or sulphate or nitrate.
- Examples of cationic surfactants are benzyl alkyl dimethyl ammonium chloride and benzalkonium chloride and cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide.
- the quaternised nitrogen atom may be part of a saturated or unsaturated heterocyclic ring e.g. of 5-7 ring atoms, such as a pyridine, quinoline, or piperidine ring; there may be 1 or 2 ring N atoms in 1 or 2 heterocyclic rings, which may be fused to an aromatic or cycloaliphatic ring.
- any remaining valencies on the nitrogen can be satisfied with organic groups e.g. of 1-7 carbons such as alkyl of 1-5 carbons, especially methyl or ethyl.
- heterocyclic cationic is cetylpyridinium chloride.
- other types of surfactant may be used, for example, non quaternised long aliphatic chain hydrocarbyl N-heterocyclic compounds, where the aliphatic hydrocarbyl group may be as defined for the hydrophobic group above; mono or diethylenically unsaturated aliphatic groups e.g. of 8-24 carbons such as oleyl are preferred.
- the N heterocyclic group can have 1-3 rings N atoms with 5-7 ring atoms in each ring; imidazole and imidazoline rings are preferred.
- the ring may also have an amino alkyl e.g.
- the asphaltene inhibitor may be an amphoteric fatty acid or a salt of an alkyl succinate while the wax inhibitor may be a polymer such as an olefin polymer e.g. polyethylene or a copolymeric ester, e.g. ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer, and the wax dispersant may be a polyamide.
- the hydrogen sulphide scavenger may be an oxidant, such as an inorganic peroxide, e.g. sodium peroxide, or chlorine dioxide, or an aldehyde eg of 1-10 carbons such as formaldehyde or glutacaldehyde or (meth)acrolein.
- coated products of the invention are usually suitable for use in most reservoirs, especially water sensitive ones, in particular ones where the pressure in the oil bearing formation significantly reduces the oil production rate or low pressure reservoirs where the water and oil are at significantly different pressures.
- the suspensions of the invention may also comprise other suitable additives such as organophilic thickening agents or viscosifiers e.g of the swelling type or the non-swelling type such as natural or synthetic polymers e.g ethyl cellulose or modified natural minerals such as hydrophobic smectite clays, e.g bentonite or synthetic clays e.g modified silica such as organophilic fused silica such as Aerosil R972.
- organophilic thickening agents or viscosifiers e.g of the swelling type or the non-swelling type such as natural or synthetic polymers e.g ethyl cellulose or modified natural minerals such as hydrophobic smectite clays, e.g bentonite or synthetic clays e.g modified silica such as organophilic fused silica such as Aerosil R972.
- a gelling agent such as propylene carbonate may be used with the thickening agent or viscosifier.
- a scale inhibitor was obtained as a 40% by weight solution (pH of 6) of a sodium salt of polyvinyl sulphonate polyacrylic acid copolymer sold as C ALNOX ML3263 by Baker Chemicals.
- the solution was spray-dried to give solid particles of greater than 5 microns in size.
- the particles were ball-milled, wet with ISOPAR oil in the presence of 2% by weight (based on total solids) of a HYPERMER LP6 comb-type polymer sold by ICI to produce a thick suspension of 26.8% by weight of solids. If desired the suspension may be filtered to leave coated particles.
- the suspension was diluted to 2.5% by weight solids with odourless kerosene.
- the efficiency of the scale inhibitor prepared in Example 1 in inhibiting deposition of scale was determined by the following procedure and compared (at constant copolymer weight percentage) to use of a comparable weight percentage of the aqueous scale inhibitor solution of Example 1.
- Preserved core from a North Sea well was cut into plugs. Each plug was loaded into the inner tube of a coreflood apparatus comprising a pair of concentric pressurised tubes sealable at both ends through which a liquid may be passed in either direction. The tubes were then pressurised at ambient temperature at 1.03 x 10 7 Nm '2 (1500 psi) for the annulus between the tubes (gross overburden pressure) and 3.45 xlO 6 Nm '2 (500 psi) pressure for the core (pore pressure).
- the core was then saturated with kerosene by flowing at least 20 pore volumes over 24 hours. It was then flushed to reduce its water content to the Swi (saturation water) level using kerosene at an injection rate of lOmls/mn in both flow directions.
- the coreholder comprising the pair of tubes and inlet and outlet flow lines were then heated to 1 15°C.
- the plug was treated with at least 5 pore volumes of crude oil in the reverse flow direction until steady-state conditions of constant pressure drop for a given flow rate were achieved. During this stage the crude oil was filtered through a 0.45 micrometer filter immediately upstream of the sample.
- the plug was shut-in for 24 hours at 1 15°C and thereafter all operations on the plug were at this temperature.
- a low flow rate waterflood was then carried out on each core by injection of seawater (pH 5.5) at 4mls/hour in the forward flow direction for about 72 hours.
- the total flood volume was about 14.5 pore volumes in each case.
- Each inhibitor was then eluted from the sample with seawater (pH 5.5) at 30 mis/hour in the forward flow direction, collecting 0.2 pore volume fractions (4mls) for the first 10 pore volumes, 10 mis fractions for the next 100 pore volumes and 15 mis fractions for the final 100 pore volumes. A total of 4.2 litres of seawater was used to elute each plug.
- Example particles of the scale inhibitor used in Example 1 were in all cases except Examples 3 and 11 , treated with different polymers from those in Example 1.
- Examples 3 and 11 were treated with the same polymer as in Example 1.
- Suspensions in oil of the treated particles were tested for their rate of release of the scale inhibitor as a simple simulation of the rate of release in a downhole formation.
- Suspensions of the scale inhibitor with each polymer in Isopar M paraffin oil were made in weight proportions 10 0 2 5 ⁇ 87 5
- the scale inhibitor had been previously spray dried in a pilot plant and then air milled in all cases but Example 1 1 , for which final milling had been in a DynaMill to give a lower particle size
- the suspension was made by mixing the ingredients in a bead mill for 30 minutes to produce a low viscosity opaque suspension
- Example 11 the spray dried scale inhibitor, polymer and Isopar M oil were mixed in a bead mill for 30 minutes and the resulting suspension decanted
- the decanted solids (46%w/w) were then mixed in a bead mill with additional Isopar M oil (49 5 %w/w) and an organic derivative of a smectite sold under the Trade Mark 'Bentone 34' by RHEOX Inc (3.4%w/w) until uniform at which point propylene carbonate (1 l%w/
- a 500 ml glass container with screw cap was filled with 400 ml of tap water and a submerged sampling tube fitted through a hole in the cap.
- the submerged end of the sampling tube rested at the container's base and samples (6 mis) withdrawn using a disposable syringe that was washed with tap water after each sampling.
- Sufficient of each scale inhibitor suspension was added to give a theoretical maximum concentration of approximately 100 ppm in the water.
- the container was secured in a flask shaker, the lid replaced and gentle agitation begun. The rate of shaking was such that the surface of the water was not grossly disturbed. Agitation was briefly halted for sampling.
- a 5 ml sample of aqueous sample solution from the release testing was taken and 5 ml of a 5% solution of citric acid (trisodium salt dihydrate) in distilled water was added, followed by 10 ml of distilled water and 5 ml of a 5000 ppm solution of benzethonium chloride, a cationic surfactant sold as Hyamine 1622 in distilled water.
- the mixture was vigorously shaken and then allowed to stand at room temperature for 40 minutes (+/- 1 minute).
- a portion of the sample was transferred to a 10 mm path length cuvette and the absorbence measured using a Philips PU8620 spectrophotometer at a wavelength of 500 nm.
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