摘要:
A water permeability contrast correction process to improve the sweep efficiency of waterflooding in carbonate-bearing strata which involves a sequential injection of (1) an optional aqueous preflush slug to adjust connate water salinity, (2) a slug of aqueous polymer gelable with polyvalent metal cations, such as an polyacrylamide, (3) an acidic aqueous solution effective to dissolve some of the carbonate and at least therefrom polyvalent metal cations specifically calcium or magnesium or both effective to gel said polymer, wherein said aqueous polymer and acidic solution can be injected together in a single slug, followed by (4) an additional aqueous polymer solution injection, wherein the acidic solution provides polyvalent metal cations in-situ for gelation of said polymer slug to preferentially decrease water permeability in highly permeable thief zones, and (5) an aqueous drive fluid.
摘要:
The invention is directed to stable crosslinked water-soluble swellable polymers, methods for making same, and their various uses in the hygiene and medical arts, gel electrophoresis, packaging, agriculture, the cable industry, information technology, in the food industry, papermaking, use as flocculation aids, and the like. More particularly, the invention relates to a composition comprising expandable polymeric microparticles having labile crosslinkers and stable crosslinkers, said microparticle mixed with a fluid and an unreacted tertiary crosslinker that is capable of further crosslinking the microparticle on degradation of the labile crosslinker so as to form a stable gel. A particularly important use is as an injection fluid in petroleum production, where the expandable polymeric particles are injected into a well and when the heat and/or pH of the well cause degradation of the labile crosslinker and when the particle expands, the tertiary crosslinker crosslinks the polymer to form a stable gel, thus diverting water to lower permeability regions and improving oil recovery.
摘要:
A method for recovering heavy oil in a stratum with an injection well, a production well and a steam generator. The method begins by injecting steam from the steam generator into a horizontal portion of the injection well followed by soaking the stratum with the steam from the injection well for a predetermined period of time; and producing heavy oil from the stratum with the production well.
摘要:
A process for decreasing the CO.sub.2 content of hydrocarbon gas by injecting a hydrocarbon gas containing CO.sub.2 into a water bearing zone of an underground formation and producing hydrocarbon gas from a collection point in the underground formation removed from the injection point.
摘要:
The quantity of oil which can be economically recovered from an already waterflooded predominantly oil-wet formation is increased by passing a first solution through the formation to change the formation from its oil-wet to a water-wet state, passing a second solution having high interfacial tension with the oil through the formation to force the oil from the small pores of the formation into larger ones, and passing a third solution having a low interfacial tension between the third solution and the oil through the formation, optionally passing a mobility buffer-solution through the formation to prevent fingering or channeling, and finally passing the driving fluid through the formation.
摘要:
A method for reducing subterranean formation permeability to brines wherein the formation is penetrated by at least one well bore comprising, injecting into the formation two slugs of an aqueous polymer solution interspaced with a brine slug. A method for reducing the quantity of water recovered from a subterranean formation which is penetrated by at least one well bore wherein in one embodiment prolonged mobility control and/or plugging is maintained with the injection into the formation of slugs of aqueous solutions of at least two distinguishable viscosity increasing agents separated by a brine spacer slug.
摘要:
The invention is directed to delayed gelation agents comprising a degradable polymeric cage containing therein one or more gelation agents. The cage degrades in situ, e.g, in an oil reservoir, thus releasing the gelation agent(s), which can then crosslink second polymers in situ to form a gel.
摘要:
The invention is directed to delayed gelation agents comprising a degradable polymeric cage containing therein one or more gelation agents. The cage degrades in situ, e.g, in an oil reservoir, thus releasing the gelation agent(s), which can then crosslink second polymers in situ to form a gel.
摘要:
The invention is directed to long lasting crosslinked water-soluble swellable polymers, methods for making same, and their uses. More particularly, the invention relates to a composition comprising expandable polymeric particles having cationic sites as well as labile crosslinkers and stable crosslinkers, said particle mixed with a fluid. A particularly important use is as an injection fluid in petroleum production, where the expandable polymeric particles are injected into a target zones in the reservoirs and when the heat and/or a suitable pH in the reservoir cause degradation of the labile crosslinker and when the particle expands, the cationic sites in the polymer adsorb to negative sites of the rock in the formation, thus diverting water to lower permeability regions and improving oil recovery. However, many other uses are possible.
摘要:
A steam generator for burning a normally-solid fuel which produces non-combustible solid residues, including, an elongated combustion chamber, a fuel introduction means to introduce fuel adjacent the axis of the combustion chamber as a centrally-disposed stream moving in a downstream direction, a combustion-supporting gas introduction means for introducing the gas as an annular, rotating stream about the fuel stream and which, together with the fuel introduction means forms a rotating, toroidal vortex of the fuel and the combustion-supporting gas moving in a downstream direction. The combustion chamber has a volume sufficient to burn all of the fuel and, together with the fuel introduction means and the combustion-supporting gas introduction means, cause the vortex to collapse and form plug flow thereafter. Water introduction means introduces water into the flue gas at the downstream end of the combustion chamber as a plurality of peripherally-arranged jets. Preferably the water is introduced from the vena contracta of a nozzle-type orifice. A vaporization chamber, coupled to the combustion chamber, has a volume sufficient to vaporize a major portion of the water to steam and a separator separates solid residues from the flue gas-steam mixture.