Abstract:
Objective Aiming at the problem that adding inorganic alkali in ternary composite flooding (ASP) is easy to scale and cause reservoir plugging, this paper develops a kind of organic-alkali-type surfactant, which replaces inorganic alkali and surfactant in ASP and forms a new type of binary composite flooding with polymer.
Method A novel polyamine betaine surfactant TDMS was prepared by using N-tallow triamine, N,N-dimethylaminomethacrylic acid ethyl ester, and 3-chloro-2-hydroxypropanesulfonic acid sodium as raw materials, and the product was characterized by fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy(FT-IR) and nuclear magnetic resonance(NMR), and its performance was compared with that of lauramidopropyl hydroxysulfo betaine (LHSB), and the complex systems formed by LHSB and different organic bases, and the performance of this system was finally evaluated. TDMS was evaluated for temperature resistance, salt resistance, and Zeta potential performance. Finally, the amine betaine surfactant (TDMS) was compounded with partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide (HPAM) to form a binary composite oil displacement system, and the oil displacement performance of this system was evaluated.
Result The critical micelle concentration of this polyamine organic alkali surfactant is 4.78×10−6 mol/L, and γcmc is 33.55 mN/m, which can reduce the interfacial tension between oil and water to 0.016 mN/m, and the stability of the emulsion formed with the crude oil is strong, and the water separation rate after 80 min is 40%, and the contact angle of oil-wetted rock can be reduced to 41.1°, and it has excellent temperature and salt resistance. The new organic alkali poly-surface binary composite oil displacement system, composed of 0.3% TDMS + 0.15% HPAM, exhibits good oil displacement performance, and can improve crude oil recovery by 25.7% on the basis of water flooding.
Conclusion Compared with LHSB, this surfactant has good emulsification, wettability, reduced oil-water interfacial tension and lower critical micelle concentration. It can effectively improve the recovery rate in polymer-surfactant binary composite flooding and provide new ideas for traditional ternary composite flooding.