WO2001059255A1 - Method of treating reservoir zone of hydrocarbon producing well to inhibit water production problems - Google Patents
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- the present invention is concerned with a method of treating a reservoir zone of a hydrocarbon producing well to inhibit problems associated with water production. It is particularly but not exclusively applicable to a preventive scale treatment in oil, gas and condensate fields, using an oil soluble scale inhibitor (OSI).
- OSI oil soluble scale inhibitor
- preventive treatment means the delivery and deposition downhole of an appropriate scale inhibitor package at an early stage, i.e. before the well starts producing scaling water.
- scale preventive treatment includes water soluble scale inhibitors, proppant/ gravel pack based solid scale inhibitors, oil soluble scale inhibitors (OSI), emulsified scale inhibitors and micro particle systems for deep matrix placement.
- OSI oil soluble scale inhibitors
- scale deposition has been considered to be a water related problem, i.e. if no water is produced no scale forms.
- the lost or deferred oil production is often based on the well shut-in time during the squeeze treatment. This can be misleading especially if the well requires a significant clean up period to regain its pre-squeeze level of oil production.
- a water base scale inhibitor e.g. process upset and poor water quality (discharged)
- operato-s are often reluctant to be proactive.
- the squeeze treatment is usually postponed to avoid upsetting the oil production and is only carried out when the production decline starts, i.e. after damage has been done.
- a method of treating a reservoir zone of a hydrocarbon producing well during the completion phase to inhibit problems associated with water production comprising: deploying into the near wellbore region of a reservoir zone during the completion phase a hydrocarbon-compatible treatment agent in a hydrocarbon phase; allowing the active component of the treatment agent to enter irreversibly the connate water in the well region; and allowing the active component to be retained by the rock matrix in the well region, whereby the active component of the treatment agent actively inhibits the respective problem if and when water is finally produced from the reservoir zone.
- the hydrocarbon well may be for example an oil well or a gas well.
- the problems associated with water production include corrosion and hydrate formation, and in particular, scale formation.
- the term "hyrocarbon- compatible" includes materials which are transportable in or can be carried by a hydrocarbon phase, and particularly includes oil soluble materials.
- the treatment agent is an oil-soluble scale inhibitor.
- the entry of the active component into the connate water phase is irreversible and this may be achieved by any convenient mechanism.
- water soluble treatment agents can be made hydrocarbon-compatible by means of a surfactant package such as a surfactant-micelle system or by means of an emulsion.
- the treatment agent is an oil soluble material which hydrolyses or decouples on contact with water.
- completion phase when applied to reservoir zones of hydrocarbon wells, means essentially, the stage before the well is put into planned long term production from that zone or the stage before the well is intended to produce uninterruptedly for a significant period of time.
- the treatment agent remains in the connate water or is adsorbed on to the mineral surface of the reservoir.
- the system allows free production of hydrocarbons without eluting any of the treatment agent during pure hydrocarbon production then when water breaks through, the treatment agent will be released in adequate concentrations for protection against scaling.
- the treatment agent is deployed at the end of the completion phase of the well developed.
- the treatment agent can also be deployed at any time during the completion phase.
- the treatment agent is an oil soluble scale inhibitor or combinations of oil soluble scale inhibitors, including different soluble inhibitors.
- suitable materials can be obtained from Champion Technologies. Products are available which make use of different molecules and active concentrations. Such combinations may take advantage of different absorption isotherms of various inhibitors, playing on both short term and long term dissolution or desorption from the matrix. This could also be combined with mixing of different generic types of inhibitors and also mixing in such a way that for example inhibitors most efficient in protection of carbonate scale could be combined with inhibitors most efficient in protection of sulphate scale.
- combinations of scale, corrosion and hydrate inhibitors could be employed during the same squeeze, or in sequence of the same squeeze to obtain multiple protection.
- OSI oil soluble scale inhibitor
- the OSI package preferably possess properties which enable it to deliver selectively the desired component(s). These properties include a ready transfer process from the oil (carrier) phase into the water phase when in contact.
- the mass transfer process including hydrolysis and partitioning of the molecules, is preferably rapid.
- the hydrolysed molecules, after partitioning in the water phase, must then be able to inhibit scale formation.
- the partitioned molecules are preferably strongly adsorbed by the rock matrix.
- the hydrolysis is an irreversible process and preferably, the hydrolysis renders the treatment agent water soluble.
- the partition between the hydrocarbon and connate water phases may be followed by or be a consequence of the hydrolysis and both operations may be controlled.
- the treatment agent is preferably an oil-soluble penta phosphate derivative which hydrolyses to a penta phosphonate according to the reaction :-
- the concentration of the treatment agent in the connate water is higher than the concentration in the hydrocarbon phase as a result of the hydrolysis and the subsequent irreversible mass transfer between phases.
- the concentration of the treatment agent in the hydrocarbon material as delivered to the formation is >2wt%, more preferably 2 to 30 wt%.
- the concentration of the treatment agent in the hydrocarbon material after delivery to the formation is ⁇ /wt%.
- the concentration of the treatment agent in the connate water after delivery of the hydrocarbon material carrying the treatment agent is >2wt% more preferably 2 to 50 wt%.
- the hydrocarbon phase in which the treatment agent is deployed may be any suitable hydrocarbon material, for example, kerosene, lamp oil, diesel oil, crude oil, condensate, synthetic oils etc.
- the connate water concentration of the treatment chemical is supporting a concenti ation driven adsorption.
- the adso ⁇ tion to the matrix from the connate water continues even after the hydrocarbon production is stared, giving a shut-in time requirement only for the oil to water process to take place.
- the shut-in and hydrolysis for most temperatures may have reached termination at 30 minutes.
- the OSI will give reduced initial flow-back return of the treatment agent and will be environmentally friendly. Conveniently, it will offer protection time in early and/or unexpected water break through.
- the OSI can be employed with/or without a preflush, which may consist of a mutual solvent and/or surfactants or other additives.
- the OSI can be employed also in wet wells with an appropriately sized hydrocarbon preflush to render the water saturation in the treatment region as low as possible.
- the OSI chemicals may be truly oil solublised without the addition of any mutual solvent, surfactants or other additives. It is believed that the OSI chemical and treatment procedure will not give adverse relative permeability effects. It can be administrated with or without coil tubing and will be able to withstand significant thermal degradation for a defined period of time.
- the present invention can therefore offer the following benefits: a preventative treatment inco ⁇ orated in a well completion programme; more efficient chemical usage; increased environmental friendliness, with a minimum or no return of treatment chemicals if the well is dry, (since the chemicals will remain in the connate water); no high peak in flow-back return; reduced shut-in time; protection in the case of early/unexpected water break-through; reducing initial scaling; reduced sand production and clay swelling which would normally be expected within a water injection; savings on subsequent costly treatments and interventions related to damage and repair of equipment; and start-up problems are minimised.
- the invention may be carried into practice in various ways and some embodiments will now be illustrated in the following examples and experiments and described with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:-
- Figure 1 is a graph showing the partitioning of OSI in oil and water phases:
- Figure 2 is a schematic view of the reservoir P-MAC apparatus
- Figure 3 is a graph showing the effect of scaling on the pressure drop along the P-MAC coil
- Figure 4 is a graph showing the results of a preventive squeeze with OSI.
- Figures 5 to 10 are graphs representing the results in various experiments.
- the tests of the Sale inhibitors were carried out by pretreating a sandpack column in various ways to simulate a squeezed reservoir, and then flow the SW through the column. As some oil will be produced before the SW has flowed through, the clock is started when the mix of FW and SW is seen at PI.
- a set up such as this is necessary, in order to put the preventative chemical into a stream at a stage before any scale is produced, and it is known that scaling conditions will occur at a later stage.
- P-MAC Pressure Monitoring and Control
- P-MAC Pressure Monitoring And Control
- This test was conducted using the P-MAC apparatus. In this test, two separate runs were carried ou with a sandpack column pre-treated (squeezed) with OSI. In the first run, sea ater was directly injected and the delay in the scale up time was observed. In the second run a volume (50 ml) of kerosene was injected prior to the sea water, i.e. to simulate oil production in a dry well until the first water breaks through. The objective of this was to examine if the adsorbed OSI molecules could be removed readily by the passage of hydrocarbon. The results show that the flow of hydrocarbon did not displace the inhibitor and that the presence of the inhibitor delays scaling up the coil, as can be seen from figure 3. The time of scaling up the coil is measured form the time when formation water and sea water mix.
- FIG 4 shows an experiment where the OSI was squeezed into a sand pack with subsequent back production of sea water and formation water (curve labelled SA1070(10%)). This gave a protection time in this system of about 23 minutes, or about 20 pore volumes (PV). The same type of squeeze was carried out before the sand pack was back produced with sea water and formation water, it was back produced with 6 PV of the hydrocarbon phase. This was carried out at two different inhibitor concentrations (curves, SA 1070(10%) +
- the particle size distribution of the Baska ⁇ sand is given in Table 1. Chemical analysis of the sand is given in Table 2. Table 1. Particle size distribution of Baskarpsand.
- compositions of the sea water and formation water used in the blocking tests are given in Tables 3 and 4.
- the composition of the formation of water is taken as an average of more general formation waters, but with an increased concentration of Barium (400ppm Ba 2+ ). This is to service two pu ⁇ oses.
- a) The precipitation in the P-mac coil will occur within reasonable time and repeatable manner.
- a formation water with 400ppm of Barium was chosen.
- Both the oil soluble inhibitor used in the experiments are pentaphosphonates delivered from Champion Technologies.
- the commercial name of the oil soluble inhibitor is SA1070.
- the commercial name of the water soluble inhibitor is SA1130. These inhibitors will correspond to traditionally DETA pentaphosphonate (DTMP).
- Oil soluble inhibitor squeeze The following operations were carried out at 90°C. At startup, the column was 100% saturated with water.
- Table 7 gives the amount of water that came out of the column during the injection of kerosene, and the calculated residual water saturation before the inhibitor injection.
- compositions of the sea water and formation water used in the experiments are given in Tables 3 and 4.
- a general composition formation water with the sea water and formation water used in the experiments are given in Tables 3 and 4.
- a general composition formation water with the sea water and formation water used in the experiments are given in Tables 3 and 4.
- the capillary tubing was rinsed with a 10% scale dissolver solution in distilled water.
- the rinsing fluid was pumped through the tube in the opposite flow direction for 20 minutes at a rate of 499 ml h.
- the columns were packed, pre treated and squeezed as normal. Caps, fittings and tubes were removed from the columns.
- the open columns were placed in a piston bottle filled with kerosene on one side of the piston (the side with the columns) and empty on the other side.
- the piston bottle was placed in an oven and the empty side was connected to a N 2 — pressure of 15 bar. The oven was heated to 155°C and the pressure then rose to about 20 bar. The columns were left in the oven for 15 and 136 days, respectively. The heat was turned off and the pressure was reduced and tubes were mounted on the column.
- the columns were post flushed with 50 ml kerosene before they were tested in the reservoir P-MAC as described above.
- Figure 6 shows oil soluble inhibitor squeeze with different concentrations and ageing. It shows that the protection time of the oil soluble inhibitor squeeze is in the same range for different inhibitor concentrations in kerosene (2-10%). Note that this is when pumping 100 ml of inhibitor solution through the column. Ageing of the squeezed column at 165°C for 15 days does not seem to reduce the efficiency of the inhibitor. When comparing Figures 5 and 6, there are indications that the protection time of the experiments with an oil soluble inhibitor squeeze is almost double that when a water soluble inhibitor was used.
- Figure 7 shows the result of two P-MAC tests with no shut-in time.
- Figure 8 shows the results from two P-MAC tests with oil wet sand.
- the oil wet columns had the longest inhibitor treatment lifetime of all the experiments. The reason for this may be that the oil wet columns had a lower initial water saturation than the other columns (see Table 8).
- Figures 9 and 10 show the results from P-MAC experiments with different squeeze procedures. In all three cases, the same amount of inhibitor was squeezed into the column, but in different ways. The first column was filled with one pore volume of 3.3% inhibitor in kerosene without overflush. The second column was filled with 1/3 pore volume with 10% inhibitor in kerosene followed by 2/3 pore volume of kerosene to displace the inhibitor. These three tests were conducted both with 15cm long columns ( Figure 10) and 25 cm long columns ( Figure 9). The experiments gave no clear differences between the three squeeze methods. Figure 10 also shows the treatment lifetime for a squeeze with one pore volume of 3.3% SA1070 in kerosene on a column with 33% water saturation. The water saturation of the other columns varies between 16-26% (see Table 8).
- shut-in time gives an enhanced lifetime to the oil soluble inhibitor treatment. This implies that the hydrolysis and the abso ⁇ tion with the concentration driven mechanism need some time. These experiments were performed with 22 hours shut-in time. However other mechanistic studies indicate a shut-in of 3 hours should be more than sufficient in practice. Two experiments were performed with columns filled with oil wet sand.
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