Oil recovery performance of a modified HAPAM with lower hydrophobicity, higher molecular weight: A comparative study with conventional HAPAM, HPAM

MingChen Ding; Yugui Han; Yigang Liu; Yefei Wang; Peng Zhao; Yujing Yuan

Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.72, 298-309, April, 2019

DOI10.1016/j.jiec.2018.12.030 Export Citation

Oil recovery performance of a modified HAPAM with lower hydrophobicity, higher molecular weight: A comparative study with conventional HAPAM, HPAM

MingChen Ding^{1, 2, †}, Yugui Han^{2, 3}, Yigang Liu³, Yefei Wang^{1, 2, †}, Peng Zhao³, and Yujing Yuan³

¹Key Laboratory of Unconventional Oil & Gas Development (China University of Petroleum (East China)), Ministry of Education, Qingdao 266580, PR China
²School of Petroleum Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, PR China
³Bohai Oilfield Research Institute, Tianjin Branch of CNOOC Ltd., Tianjin, PR China

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Adaptability in improving hydrophobically associating polyacrylamide (HAPAM) flooding by reducing hydrophobicity (to decrease retention) while increasing molecular weight (to ensure viscosity), was researched by the comparative study of an accordingly modified HAPAM (M-HAPAM), a conventional HAPAM (C-HAPAM) and a classical hydrolyzed polyacrylamide (HPAM). Attention is paid to their thickening ability, injectivity and propagation, retention, and finally oil-displacing performance. Results show that hydrophobicity reduction helps retention decrement and propagation enhancement of MHAPAM, making it outperform C-HAPAM with regard to injectivity, propagation, and oil recovery: however, HPAM works best at permeabilities of ~1 μm2 ~3 μm2, and M-HAPAM needs more hydrophobicity reduction.

Keywords:Polymer flooding;Hydrophobicity;Viscosity;Retention;Propagation;Oil recovery

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