WO1999050529A1 - Surfactant based gelling composition for wellbore service fluids - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to surfactant, particularly viscoelastic surfactant based gelling compositions preferably used for wellbore service fluids. More particularly it relates to such compositions for selectively reducing the flow of subterranean aqueous fluids into a well while maintaining the hydrocarbon production.
- Various types of wellbore fluids are used in operations related to the development, completion, and production of natural hydrocarbon reservoirs.
- the operations include fracturing subterranean formations, modifying the permeability of subterranean formations, or sand control.
- Other applications comprise the placement of a chemical plug to isolate zones or complement an isolating operation.
- the fluids employed by those operations are known as drilling fluids, completion fluids, work over fluids, packer fluids, fracturing fluids, conformance or permeability control fluids and the like.
- fluids for water control applications are fluids for water control applications:
- a hydrocarbon well e.g., a well for extracting oil or natural gas from the Earth
- the producing well commonly also yields water.
- the amount of water produced from the well tends to increase over time with a concomitant reduction of hydrocarbon production.
- the production of water becomes so profuse that remedial measures have to be taken to decrease the water/hydrocarbon production ratio.
- the well has to be abandoned.
- a principal component of wellbore service fluids are gelling compositions, usually based on polymers or viscoelastic surfactants .
- Viscoelastic surfactant solutions are usually formed by the addition of certain reagents to concentrated solutions of surfactants, which most frequently consist of long- chain quaternary ammonium salts such as cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) .
- CTAB cetyltrimethylammonium bromide
- Common reagents which generate viscoelasticity in the surfactant solutions are salts such sodium salicylate and sodium isocyanate and non-ionic organic molecules such as chloroform.
- the electrolyte content of surfactant solutions is also an important control on their viscoelastic behaviour.
- the viscoelastic properties of a solution arises from the formation of long cylindrical (or "worm-like") micelles and their entanglement to form a three-dimensional structure.
- the surfactant micelles behave in a manner somewhat similar to polymer chains, although the former are dynamic entities with the surfactant monomers constantly joining and leaving the micelles.
- the micelles are held together by van der Waals (and other similar) interactions, in contrast to the strong covalent bonds between monomer units in polymers.
- the surfactant micelles are fragile (4) and the gels formed by the entangled micelles are relatively weak.
- Such gels are often termed physical gels (6), in contrast to chemical gels which are commonly formed by the cross-linking of high molecular weight polymers using covalent or ionic bonds.
- the object of this present invention is to provide improved compositions, especially or wellbore service fluids, based on monomeric surfactants, particularly monomeric viscoelastic surfactants. It is a specific object of the invention to provide stable gels using such compositions. It is a further specific object of the invention to provide such compositions for water control operations in hydrocarbon wells.
- the objects of the invention are achieved by polymerizing monomeric surfactants forming micelles in an aqueous solution.
- monomeric is defined as having no repetitive units.
- the molecular mass of monomeric surfactants is less than 10000, preferably less than 1000 units. - 4 -
- Surfactants are water soluble surface-active materials with a hydrophobic group. The solubility in water is controlled by a hydrophilic group. Surfactants are usually classified according to their electrochemical properties as anionic, cationic or non- ionic agents. Often they are referred to as detergents, soaps or amphiphilic compounds.
- surfactants form micelles.
- concentration of the surfactants is sufficient to transform the solution into a gel.
- concentration lies in the range of 1 to 10 weight per cent.
- the momomeric surfactant belong to the class of surfactant which display in solution viscoelastic behavior.
- the polymerizing agent is capable of initiating a polymerization of the surfactants forming a micelle, thus stabilizing the gel.
- concentration of the agent is preferably in the range of 10 to 1000 ppm (parts per million)
- viscoelastic means a viscous solution which at least partially returns to its original state when an applied stress is released.
- the property of viscoelasticity can be tested for example by observing whether bubbles created by swirling the sample recoil after the swirling ceased.
- the physical gels formed by viscoelastic surfactant solutions can exhibit considerable responsiveness to their external chemical and physical environments.
- the viscoelasticity of these concentrated surfactant solutions can be destroyed by contact with hydrocarbons and other organic liquids.
- the viscoelasticity of the solutions can also be lost on heating but recovered on cooling.
- the polymeric gels formed show significantly less ' responsiveness to their chemical and physical environment .
- Viscoelastic surfactants employed by the current invention are described for example in the above cited U.S. patents
- the polymerized surfactants are cross-linked, thus further enhancing the stability of the gel.
- the preferred concentration of the cross-linking agent in the solution lies in the range of 10 to 1000 ppm.
- Chemical cross-linking is defined as forming a chemical bond between the cross-linked molecules. Chemical cross-linking is understood to be stable and irreversible.
- the cross-linking agents can be either inorganic ions (or ionic complexes) or polar organic molecules.
- the polymer contains ionic groups such as carboxylate or sulphonate functions the polymer chains can be cross-linked by inorganic ions such as chromiu (III) or zirconium ( IV) , frequently in the presence of monomeric ligands, such as acetate or adipate ions, to control the rate of cross-linking.
- organic cross-linking agents such as hexanal or heptanal, can be used.
- the polymerization and cross-linking of the cylindrical micelles in viscoelastic surfactant solutions is illustrated with three examples.
- the polymerization in the three examples is achieved - 6 - by a free radical mechanism.
- the polymerization of the surfactant monomers to form polymeric surfactants can be achieved by a number of well known methods, including ring-opening polymerization, cation polymerization and anionic polymerization techniques. A description of these and other polymerization techniques has been given by G. Odian in : "Principles of Polymerization", 3rd ed., pp., Wiley, New York (1991) .
- the first example is the polymerization of the surfactant N- erucyl-N,N-bis (2-hydroxyethyl) -N-methylammonium chloride
- the polymerization of the surfactant molecules is achieved by joining the carbon-carbon double bonds by a free radical polymerization reaction within the micelles using the following processes.
- a viscoelastic surfactant solution was produced using 30 g/1 of the surfactant N-erucyl-N,N-bis (2-hydroxyethyl) -N-methylammonium chloride with 40 g/1 ammonium chloride.
- a volume of 100 ml of the viscoelastic surfactant solution was placed in a bottle which was purged with dry nitrogen gas to remove any dissolved oxygen.
- 2 ' -azo (bis-amidinopropane) dihydrochloride was added to the viscoelastic surfactant solution and mixed thoroughly.
- the surfactant solution was heated at 60°C for 24 hours under an atmosphere of nitrogen. Polymerization of the surfactant monomers in the giant micelles resulted in the viscosity of the gel becoming insensitive to contact with hydrocarbon. The viscosity of the surfactant gel was not altered by polymerization of the surfactant monomers. The polymerized surfactant gel retained its gel strength after prolonged contact with water.
- the second example is the polymerization of the viscoelastic surfactant solution formed by potassium oleate in a potassium chloride electrolyte solution:
- the viscoelastic surfactant solution was formed by mixing 60 g/1 potassium oleate with 60 g/1 potassium chloride. A sample of 100 ml of the viscoelastic surfactant solution was purged with nitrogen and mixed with 10 mg of the initiator 2,2'- azo (bisamidinopropane) dihydrochloride. The solution was heated at 60°C for 24 hours under an atmosphere of nitrogen. The resulting solution of polymerized surfactants was slightly less viscoelastic than the original monomeric solution but the observed viscoelasticity was insensitive to contact with hydrocarbon. The gel formed by the polymerized surfactant retained its viscoelasticity after prolonged contact with water
- the third example is the polymerization of a long chain vinyl surfactant, the potassium salt of 10 , 17-octadecyldienoic acid
- the surfactant monomer is synthesized by a two stage reaction which involves coupling of the short-chain vinyl surfactant 10-undecenoic acid to 8-bromo- 1-octene.
- the first stage consists of reacting the 10-undecenoic acid with ozone in dichloromethane followed by treatment with dimethyl sulphide (DMS) at -78°C to convert the carbon-carbon double bond to a terminal aldehyde group by the so-called oxo- uncoupling reaction.
- DMS dimethyl sulphide
- the second stage consists of reacting the 8-bromo-l-octene with triphenylphosphine in dichloromethane to form 8-triphenylphosphonium-l-octene bromide which is then coupled with the aldehyde carboxylic acid and butyllithium in tetrahydrofuran by the Wittig reaction to form the surfactant monomer as shown above .
- the potassium salt of 10 , 17-octadecyldienoic acid forms a viscoelastic surfactant solution at a concentration of 60 g/1 in the presence of 40 g/1 ammonium chloride.
- the surfactant monomers were polymerized using 10 mg of the free radical initiator 2 , 2 ' -azo (bis-amidinopropane) dihydrochloride in 100 ml of viscoelastic surfactant solution which had been purged with nitrogen gas. The solution was heated at 60°C for 24 hours under an atmosphere of nitrogen.
- the polymeric micelles can be cross-linked using a polyvalent metal ion, such as chromium (III) or zirconium(IV) ions.
- a polyvalent metal ion such as chromium (III) or zirconium(IV) ions.
- the polymerized micelles can also be cross-linked with metal ions such as zirconium(IV) .
- the original viscoelastic surfactant solution can be composed of two different types of surfactant monomer which form mixed cylindrical micelles.
- the second surfactant monomer can be chosen to give a required cross-linking functionality to the polymerized micelle.
- a viscoelastic surfactant solution can be formed with 10 , 17-octadecyldienoic acid and its amide 10 , 17-octadecyldienamide added in the mole fraction ratio of approximately 0.98:0.02.
- the two surfactants can be polymerized, as in example 3 given above, to yield a co- polymerized micelle.
- the amide groups within the polymerized micelles can be used to cross-link them with organic cross- linking agents such as formaldehyde and phenol.
- the high concentration of surfactant in the aqueous solution can be used to solubilise otherwise insoluble long-chain cross-linking agents such as hexanal or octanal .
- Other cross-linking functional groups can be envisaged.
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