Improved oil recovery by reducing surfactant adsorption with polyelectrolyte in high saline brine

Budhathoki, Mahesh; Barnee, Sai Hari Ram; Shiau, Bor-Jier; Harwell, Jeffrey H.

doi:10.1016/j.colsurfa.2016.03.012

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“…When reaching CMC, any addition of surfactant will not have any effect on adsorption and it displays a plateau behavior. In this case, adsorption remains constant (Adak et al 2005;Budhathoki et al 2016;Kamal et al 2017). Boomgaard et al (1987) explained the adsorption of nonionic surfactants.…”

Section: Surfactant Concentrationmentioning

confidence: 94%

The effect of surfactant concentration, salinity, temperature, and pH on surfactant adsorption for chemical enhanced oil recovery: a review

Belhaj

Elraies

Mahmood

et al. 2019

J Petrol Explor Prod Technol

288

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Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes have a great potential to maximize oil recovery factor of the existing reservoirs, where a significant volume of the unrecovered oil after conventional methods is targeted. Application of chemical EOR techniques includes the process of injecting different types of chemicals into a reservoir to improve the overall sweep efficiency. Surfactant flooding is one of the chemical EOR used to reduce the oil-water interfacial tension and to mobilize residual oil toward producing wells. Throughout the process of surfactant flooding, selecting a suitable surfactant for the reservoir conditions is quite challenging. Surfactants tend to be the major factor associated with the cost of an EOR process, and losing surfactants leads to substantial economic losses. This process could encounter a significant loss of surfactant due to adsorption into the porous media. Surfactant concentration, salinity, temperature, and pH were found to be as the main factors that influence the surfactant adsorption on reservoir rocks. Most of the research has been conducted in low-temperature and low-salinity conditions. Only limited studies were conducted in high-temperature and high-salinity (HT/HS) conditions due to the challenging for implementation of surfactant flooding in these conditions. This paper, therefore, focuses on the reviews of the studies conducted on surfactant adsorption for different surfactant types on different reservoir rocks under different reservoir conditions, and the influence of surfactant concentration, salinity, temperature, and pH on surfactant adsorption.

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Section: Surfactant Concentrationmentioning

confidence: 94%

The effect of surfactant concentration, salinity, temperature, and pH on surfactant adsorption for chemical enhanced oil recovery: a review

Belhaj

Elraies

Mahmood

et al. 2019

J Petrol Explor Prod Technol

288

131

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“…The only problem is that there are discrepancies about the values of the characteristic parameters, which have been called differently, i.e., Cc for characteristic curvature (Acosta et al, ) although it has not inverse length unit, as remarked elsewhere (Abbott, ) in an encyclopedia book, where it is called Cc simply for C haracteristi c . This imprecision of the characteristic parameter is probably due to the approximation of the k slope and to some inaccurate extrapolations to estimate the pure surfactant value with products coming from different manufacturers, which might not use the same synthesis method (Budhathoki et al, , b; Jin et al, ; Witthayapanyanon et al, ). More data are required to fine tune the estimation of characteristic parameters.…”

Section: Physicochemical Properties Of Extended Surfactantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Other university and industry groups carried out fundamental studies to make these surfactants (Cox and Weerasooriya, ; Weerasooriya, ) and to improve the solubilization of polar soils without alcohol cosurfactants, particularly in the Institute for Applied Surfactant Research in Norman, OK, USA (Arpornpong et al, ; Attaphong et al, ; Attaphong and Sabatini, ; Budhathoki et al, ; Charoensaeng et al, ; Do et al, ; Naksuk et al, ; Phan et al, , ; Phaodee et al, ; Witthayapanyanon et al, , , b, ), as well as other independent research and development groups (Abdel‐Azim et al, ; Acosta et al, ; Adkins et al, ; Aoudia et al, ; Barnes et al, ; Dong et al, ; Flaaten et al, ; Hadji et al, ; Hammond and Acosta, ; He et al, ; Hirasaki et al, ; Hornof and Hombek, ; Huang et al, ; Jakobs et al, , ; Johannessen and Spildo, ; Khristov et al, ; Klaus et al, , , ; Liyanage et al, ; Lu et al, ; Lu et al, ; Puerto et al, ; Sarkar and Alexandridis, ; Shusharina et al, , ; Smith et al, ; Solairaj et al, ; Wu et al, ; Yang et al, ).…”

Section: Historical Aspectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Extended Surfactants Including an Alkoxylated Central Part Intermediate Producing a Gradual Polarity Transition—A Review of the Properties Used in Applications Such as Enhanced Oil Recovery and Polar Oil Solubilization in Microemulsions

Salager

Forgiarini

Márquez

2019

J Surfact & Detergents

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The research published in the past half century indicates that surfactant interfacial performance in producing low tension or high solubilization with polar oils is not generally attained with pure conventional species exhibiting well‐defined polar and nonpolar parts. The improvement trends reached with surfactant mixtures as well as the introduction of additives like cosurfactants and linkers lead to the introduction of the so‐called extended surfactants, whose structure includes an intermediate polarity spacer between the hydrophilic head and the lipophilic tail. Recent investigations on different kinds of surfactants in a variety of applications—such as detergency, cosmetics, enhanced oil recovery or crude demulsifying, and vegetable oil extraction—indicate that these extended surfactants are likely to be particularly performing with oils containing polar groups, such as triacylglycerols and asphaltenic crudes. Possible applications of extended surfactants in enhanced oil recovery, crude emulsion breaking, detergency and cleaning, medicine and cosmetics vehicles, and natural oil extraction as well as some other cases are quickly reviewed.

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“… 24 − 27 The other is related to test conditions such as the type of rock, type of clay and clay content, surfactant concentration, salinity of brine, injection rate, test temperature, etc. 22 , 26 , 28 − 33 Kamal et al 27 and Belhaj et al 34 reviewed static adsorption of different surfactants and described adsorption and retention mechanisms of adsorbing surfactants onto the surface of minerals and how to apply them to the tertiary oil recovery as a displacing agent. For the dynamic adsorption of surfactants, very little work has appeared in the literature.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comprehensive Investigation of Dynamic Characteristics of Amphoteric Surfactant–Sulfonated Polymer Solution on Carbonate Rocks in Reservoir Conditions

2020

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To recover the remaining oil after water flooding, amphoteric surfactant–sulfonated polymer (S-P) flooding has attracted attention as a tertiary oil recovery technique. Oil recovery by S-P flooding not only is influenced by reservoir heterogeneity but also depends on chemical adsorption and interactions of S-P solution with the surface of rocks. This paper presents comprehensive laboratory results related to the dynamic adsorption, resistance factor (RF), residual resistance factor (RRF), and adsorbed layer thickness of S-P solution on the surface of carbonate rocks. Three core flooding experiments were conducted. The S-P solution was composed of an amphoteric surfactant (0.2 wt %) and sulfonated polymer solution (0.2 wt %) in seawater. The S-P solution was injected until the effluent concentration reached the inlet concentration. Seawater was injected after S-P injection to displace S-P solution until the effluent concentration reduced to a minimum value or constant value for desorption study. Total organic carbon (TOC) and Hyamine methods were used to determine the adsorption of the polymer and surfactant, respectively. The individual amount of dynamic adsorption and the total amount of adsorption of S-P solution onto carbonate rock were determined and compared with the results of single adsorption of a surfactant solution published previously. The residual resistance factor, resistance factor, and adsorbed layer thickness of S-P solution on carbonate rocks were calculated based on the differential pressure before and after injecting the S-P solution. We found that the dynamic adsorption, RF, RRF, and adsorbed layer thickness of the S-P solution strongly depends on pore geometry or reservoir properties. Some of the relationships are proposed for the first time. The loss of injectivity and liquid permeability during S-P solution injection are evaluated in detail in this paper. This paper presents insights into the dynamic adsorption, residual resistance factor, resistance factor, adsorbed layer thickness, and injectivity of S-P solution on carbonate rocks with reservoir parameters, which could help in designing the chemical enhanced oil recovery process in carbonate reservoirs.

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Improved oil recovery by reducing surfactant adsorption with polyelectrolyte in high saline brine

Cited by 63 publications

References 25 publications

The effect of surfactant concentration, salinity, temperature, and pH on surfactant adsorption for chemical enhanced oil recovery: a review

The effect of surfactant concentration, salinity, temperature, and pH on surfactant adsorption for chemical enhanced oil recovery: a review

Extended Surfactants Including an Alkoxylated Central Part Intermediate Producing a Gradual Polarity Transition—A Review of the Properties Used in Applications Such as Enhanced Oil Recovery and Polar Oil Solubilization in Microemulsions

Comprehensive Investigation of Dynamic Characteristics of Amphoteric Surfactant–Sulfonated Polymer Solution on Carbonate Rocks in Reservoir Conditions

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