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Abstract
Crude terephthalic acid (CTA) as a chemical compound is used for flooding here as an alternative to the traditional hydrolyzed polyacrylamide (HPAM) because of its availability and economical aspects and higher efficiency. Crude oil samples from an Iranian oil field were used during the flooding tests. Sand packed models using two different sizes of sand mainly 50 and 100 meshes were employed in this investigation. A comparison between water flooding and CTA flooding as a secondary oil recovery process revealed that the oil recovery factor was improved by 10% OOIP when CTA after water flooding was used in secondary state. The effect of various injection rates and different concentration of chemical solutions on the recovery factor have been checked. Besides, experimental results improved the surfactant behavior of the CTA solution in water. Experiments showed that oil recovery factor increased by 5% OOIP when SDS solution was used in tertiary state. Experiments were performed in laboratory temperature and pressure around 10 bars.
Keywords :
NOMENCLATURE
| EOR: | = | enhanced oil recovery |
| SOR: | = | residual oil saturation |
| SWC: | = | connate water saturation |
| OOIP: | = | original oil in place |
| IFT: | = | interfacial tension |
| PV: | = | pore volume |
| RF: | = | recovery factor |
| CTA: | = | crude terephthalic acid |
| HPAM: | = | hydrolyzed poly acryl amide |
| SDS: | = | sodium dodecyl sulfate |