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CO-SURFACTANT POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL
MONO-OLEATE IN THE FORMULATION
OF NATURAL BASED-SURFACTANT
FOR CHEMICAL EOR
SURFAKTAN PENDAMPING POLIETILEN GLIKOL
MONO-OLEAT PADA FORMULASI SURFAKTAN BERBASIS
NABATI UNTUK INJEKSI KIMIA EOR
Yani Faozani Alli.
Letty Brioletty.
Hestuti Eni.
, and Yan Irawan.
AuLEMIGASAy R & D Centre for Oil and Gas Technology Jl.
Ciledug Raya.
Kav.
Cipulir.
Kebayoran Lama.
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Jakarta Selatan 12230 INDONESIA Tromol Pos: 6022/KBYB-Jakarta 12120.
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Received after Correction on December 9th 2016
Publication Approval on: April 28th 2017
ABSTRAK
Surfaktan berbasis nabati seperti surfaktan metil ester sulfonat (MES) dari bahan minyak kelapa sawit telah menjadi fokus penelitian selama satu dekade terakhir untuk meningkatkan perolehan minyak, mengingat ketersediaan bahan baku kelapa sawit yang melimpah di Indonesia serta kebutuhan akan minyak sebagai sumber energi yang terus meningkat.
Pengembangan surfaktan MES agar sesuai dengan karakteristik fluida reservoar lapangan target juga telah berhasil dilakukan dalam skala laboratorium dan skala lapangan.
Pada penelitian ini, pengaruh penambahan surfaktan pendamping polietilen glikol mono-oleat (PMO) untuk meningkatkan kemampuan surfaktan dalam meningkatkan produksi minyak pada lapangan AuLAy di Jawa Tengah dalam skala laboratorium dilakukan melalui uji kompatibilitas, uji tegangan antarmuka (IFT), uji kestabilan termal dan uji core flooding.
Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa penambahan PMO sebagai surfaktan pendamping MES dapat meningkatkan kelarutan surfaktan di dalam air formasi terkait dengan keberadaan gugus etoksi yang mempunyai sifat antarmuka di dalam struktur molekul PMO.
Penurunan IFT sebagai faktor penentu dalam injeksi surfaktan juga dapat dicapai hingga 10-3 dyne/cm, dan dapat bertahan hingga dua bulan pada suhu reservoar.
Adapun pengujian kemampuan surfaktan dalam meningkatkan perolehan minyak melalui uji core flooding menunjukkan bahwa campuran surfaktan MES dan PMO dapat meningkatkan produksi minyak hingga 55.
35% Sor dan berpotensi untuk dijadikan bahan injeksi kimia di lapangan target.
Kata Kunci : injeksi kimia, surfaktan nabati, surfaktan pendamping, polietilen glikol mono-oleat.
MES.
EOR
ABSTRACT
Natural-based surfactant such as methyl esther sulfonate, which is derived from palm oil, has increasingly become the focus of study for the last decade to improve oil recovery due to the abundant raw materials availability and the need for oil as a source of energy.
Surfactant MES development with the targeted Cuid reservoir characteristic has been conducted in the laboratory scale as well as in the Aeld In this study, the addition of polyethylene glycol mono-oleate as co-surfactant to enhanced oil recovery in the AuLAy oilAeld in Central Java was investigated in the laboratory scale through compatibility ScientiAc Contributions Oil & Gas.
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IFT measurement, thermal stability and core Cooding tests.
The results showed that the presence of PMO improved the solubility of surfactant mixture in the water which formed one phase milky Decreasing IFT as the crucial factor for surfactant Cooding was also achieved until 10-3 dyne/cm and thermally stable for two months.
Furthermore, core Cooding experiments to study the performance of surfactant to recover oil production showed that the mixture of MES and PMO are able to enhance oil recovery until 55.
35% Sor and have potential to be used as chemicals for chemical Cooding in the targeted oilAeld.
Keywords: chemical Cooding, natural-base surfactant, cosurfactant, polyethylene glycol mono-oleate.
MES.
EOR
INTRODUCTION
Currently, there has been considerable progress globally made on surfactant flooding either in laboratory studies or in pilot scale.
However, in Indonesia, that really only began in the last decade, as indicated by several studies that has been reported relating to the invention of local surfactant in the laboratory scale.
Among the three pilot projects involving chemical injection in Indonesia that have been performed, only one was in Kalimantan using local chemicals (Bou et al.
Wibiwo et al.
Rilian et al.
ZulAkar et al.
It showed that the chance to develop surfactant to be applied in Indonesian mature oil Aelds is still possible.
Chemical flooding is one of the enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods which involves the injection of surfactant to mobilize oil saturation, polymer to improve volumetric sweep efAciency, and alkaline to minimize the adsorption of chemicals into the reservoir rock (Samantha et al.
Bera et al.
Zhu et al.
Battistuta et al.
Surfactant is an amphiphilic molecule which consist of hydrophilic and hydrophobic groups.
However, a speciAc surfactant characteristic is required for chemical Cooding due to the different nature of reservoir Cuids in each reservoir (Adkins et al.
It has to be able to obtain ultralow interfacial tension (IFT), and be thermally stable, compatible, saline resistant, and hardness resistant (Adkins et al.
Surfactant for EOR is usually derived from petroleum, such as sodium alkylarylsulfonates, sodium alkyl benzene sulfonates and sodium alkyl sulfonates (Marhaendrajana et al.
, although the study to use natural based-surfactant has arisen recently due to its renewable and environmentally friendly features (Phan et al.
Hambali et al.
Jeirani et al.
Song et al.
One of the potential crops to be used as surfactant raw material is palm oil (Hidayati et al.
Sugihardjo.
Bantacut & Darmanto, 2.
As the biggest producing country of palm oil, its availability in Indonesia will not be an issue for upscaling surfactant Recently.
Jin et al.
reported the utilization of palm oil as a raw material of anionic surfactant methyl ester sulfonate (MES).
They produced MES from esteriAcation and sulfonation of waste cooking Application of MES has been commercially used as an active cleaning ingredient in laundry detergent, substituting to the current surfactant workhouse.
Linear Alkyl Benzene Sulfonates.
It gives excellent bio-degradability, improved calcium hardness tolerance during washing process, and superior detergency (Ivanova et al.
On the other hand, the application of MES as a surfactant for EOR was reported by several researchers (Hidayati et al.
Sugihardjo 2013.
Sugihardjo & Eni 2.
Polyethylene glycol mono-oleate (PMO) is a lipophilic non-ionic surfactant (O/W) derived from natural oils which consists of several ethoxy groups and is utilized as emulsiAers, viscosity modiAer, emollient and a processing aid in the textile industry.
The mono of polyethylene glycol 200 and 300 are the most important for these properties.
PMO is generated from esteriAcation of polyethylene glycol with oleic acid, followed by washing, puriAcation and product Anishing (Irawan & Ika 2.
In this study, we attempt to investigate the effect of PMO as co-surfactant to improve the compatibility of MES as chemical injection in the AuLAy oilAeld, as well as to reduce the IFT of oil and water.
The other EOR tests including the Altration test, phase behaviour analysis, and the core Cooding test were also analyzed.
II.
METHODOLOGY
Palm oil-based surfactant MES and PMO were used as the main surfactant and co-surfactant.
The surfactants were synthesized and developed in the Research Centre of Chemistry.
Tangerang.
Indonesia.
Polymer with concentration in the range of 750-1500 ppm was used for core Cooding experiments for improving macroscopic sweep efAciency.
Anionic surfactant CS II was used Co-Surfactant Polyethylene Glycol Mono-oleate in the Formulation of Natural Based-Surfactant for Chemical EOR (Yani Faozani Alli et al.
to compare the performance of targeted surfactant to enhanced oil recovery through the core Cooding Ethylene glycol butyl eter (EGBE) was used as a solvent.
Analytical grade of sodium carbonat (Na2CO.
was used as alkaline.
Formation water and crude oil were obtained from AuLAy oilAeld in the Centre of Java.
Compatibility Test A single surfactant MES or surfactant mixture were mixed with formation water in the presence of EGBE as a solvent.
The solubility of single surfactant MES and the mixture of MES-PMO were visually observed at room temperature to study the effect of PMO on MES solubilization.
The phase formation, colour changing, and precipitation were recorded to investigate the compatibility of surfactant formulation with the reservoir Cuid.
IFT Measurement The IFT of MES in the absence and presence of PMO were measured to compare the effect of cosurfactant PMO on reducing IFT.
2 L crude oil was injected into the capillary tube Alled with surfactant.
The IFT value was measured using Spinning Drop Tensiometer TX-500C/D.
The tube was spun at 6000 rpm under elevated reservoir temperature .
oC).
Density difference between both liquids was used as an input to calculate IFT.
Stable IFT after 10 minutes was then recorded.
Thermal Stability Investigation A series of surfactant solutions were put into the oven at 60oC for several days.
The IFT was then measured using a Spinning Drop Tensiometer TX500C/D.
The degree of thermal hydrolysis was then evaluated by comparing the IFT value before and after surfactant exposed with thermal.
Core Flooding Experiments pressure and high temperature chemical Cooding system was used for core Cooding experiments.
Routine core analysis was Arstly conducted which included measuring the dimensions, permeability, and The petrophysical parameters are presented in Table 1.
The oil displacement performance of the surfactant Cooding system was tested.
Core Cooding experiment procedure was described as:
vacuuming the weighing core at -1 atm for several hours, followed by saturation with formation water for 3 hours.
Water pore volume was calculated by material balance.
Wetted core was then weighed.
Mass difference was determined as water pore Core was put in core holder and injected with formation water, and water phase permeability was measured.
The drainage process was started by injecting crude oil with gradient rate from 0.
1 to 10 mL/min until no more brine was produced.
The initial oil in place (So.
was calculated by using the material balance method.
The core was placed in a 60oC oven for aging the interaction between crude oil and core for 3 days.
Water Cooding was conducted by injecting the crude oil-saturated core with injection water until water cut more than 98%.
Then the chemical slug consisting of surfactant and polymer was injected as designed.
Finally, subsequent water Cooding was injected with injection water.
A core Cooding experiment was conducted at reservoir temperature with a Cuid injection rate at 0.
mL/min, which simulated the displacement velocity of chemical Cooding in an oil reservoir.
During the experiments, the pressure drop, oil production and total Cuid production were recorded on a timely basis in order to calculate the incremental oil recovery and water cut of Cooding precisely.
Several core flooding experiments were conducted on standard core Buff Berea.
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RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS
Solubility improvement of PMO-contained The compatibility of surfactant was first studied due to the surfactantAos ability to produce homogeneous solution, which is essential to obtain clearly sufAcient chemicals.
As presented in Figure 1, the presence of PMO as co-surfactant, enhanced the solubility of the surfactant solution.
Whereas increasing the concentration of single surfactant MES formed two phases, with the oil phase on the top layer (Figure 1.
, but it was not the case for MES and PMO mixtures which formed one phase milky solution (Figure 1.
It indicated that the addition of PMO improved the solubility of the surfactant due to the molecular groups of PMO which consist of ethoxy with interface afAnity (Levitt et al.
although optimization will be required to generate a transparent homogeneous solution.
The effect of PMO to generate ultralow IFT The study to investigate the effect of PMO addition to the palm oil-based surfactant.
MES, was conducted by measuring the IFT in the presence and absence of PMO.
Co-surfactant PMO2.
PMO3 and PMO4 indicated the different ratio of surfactant MES and co-surfactant PMO.
The study showed that single surfactant MES gave an IFT value of around 10-1 dyne/cm, which is not enough to mobilize the oil, whereas in the addition of PMO at various ratios, the ultralow IFT at 10-3 dyne/cm IFT can be Figure 1 The effect of PMO on solubility of surfactant solution.
Single surfactant MES mixed with brine water formed two phase solutions.
In the presence of PMO, milky one phase solution were obtained.
Figure 2 The effect of PMO on reducing IFT.
In the presence of PMO, ultralow IFT were obtained from 0.
3 Ae 1.
0% of PMO, .
Different ratios of MES and PMO gave the similar level of IFT at 10-3 dyne/cm.
Co-Surfactant Polyethylene Glycol Mono-oleate in the Formulation of Natural Based-Surfactant for Chemical EOR (Yani Faozani Alli et al.
Figure 3 The effect of PMO to the IFT thermal stability.
The IFT of PMO-contained surfactant tends to increase in the elevated temperature.
The addition of alkaline minimize the effect of surfactant thermal hydrolysis.
reached in the range of 0.
3 Ae 1.
0% surfactant mixture concentration (Figure 2.
Furthermore, the effect of alkaline to the IFT at different ratios of MES to PMO was also investigated.
As can be seen on the graph (Figure 2.
, in all alkaline concentrations at different ratios of MES and PMO, ultralow IFT at 10-3 dyne/ cm was obtained, suggesting alkaline compatibility with the surfactant mixture.
Decreasing IFT value from 10-1 dyne/cm to the level of 10-3 dyne/cm is the most important criteria to utilize surfactant as a chemical injection.
Several studies reported that the mixture of two or more surfactants produced better performance chemicals rather than a single surfactant to mobilize oil recovery (Hirasaki et al.
Adkins et al.
Jang et al.
This might be caused by the various components of crude oil.
In the presence of a second surfactant.
PMO, that consists of several ethoxy groups with interface afAnity (Levitt et al.
, the surfactant mixture was then able to reduce the IFT to the ultralow level as required.
The ultralow IFT at 10-3 dyne/cm is believed to recover oil production to be more than 90% of the original oil in place (OOIP) (Lake 1.
The effect of PMO to the IFT thermal stability The IFT thermal stability of surfactant mixture in the presence of PMO was analyzed to evaluate the possibilities of the surfactantAos thermal degradation.
This ability is crucial to ensure the performace of the surfactant under reservoir temperature during the Cow between injection well to the production well which usually takes several days, even months.
As presented in Figure 3, the IFT value of PMOcontained surfactant tend to be increasing above 10-3 dyne/cm at elevated temperature.
However, the addition of alkaline, thermally stable surfactant mixture until 2 months was achieved, was associated with the increasing pH of surfactant solution.
This result is in agreement with the previous study which showed that surfactant was thermally stable when the pH solution is maintained at pH 10-11.
Whereas, the hydrolysis of surfactant occurs more rapidly when the pH solution is outside this range, especially at lower pH (Adkins et al.
The ability of MES-PMO surfactant to recover oil production In order to investigate the performance of MES in the presence of PMO to enhance oil recovery.
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several core Cooding experiments were conducted.
The addition of polymer to the slug desain was intended to improve the displacement process as well as to lower the mobility ratio.
All of displacement tests were performed under the same conditions of porosity and permeability using standard core Buff Berea.
All chemical solutions were freshly prepared just before being used so as to avoid any effect of air exposure, which may alter the characteristics of A summary of displacement results is shown in Table 2.
The addition of PMO in surfactant MES proved to be able to enhance oil recovery.
As described in Table 2, for 1.
0 PV surfactant slug contains the mixture of 1.
0% MES and PMO in the presence of alkaline and can recover oil production until However, the injection of 0.
3 PV surfactant may not be effective to improve oil recovery as that Co-Surfactant Polyethylene Glycol Mono-oleate in the Formulation of Natural Based-Surfactant for Chemical EOR (Yani Faozani Alli et al.
only obtained additional recovery at 12.
87% Sor, although slug polymer was added for improving volumetric sweep efAciency.
The highest recovery factor was achieved by the injection of slug design 3 consisting of alkaline, surfactant and polymer with additional recovery of 55.
35% Sor.
Chemical Cooding containing surfactant, alkaline and polymer as the Arst slug followed by single polymer as the second slug was considered the most effective slug design for chemical injection.
The different role of each chemical is crucial at providing the optimum performance of chemical design.
Surfactant for microscopic sweep efficiency and polymer for macroscopic sweep efAciency in the presence of alkaline for hydrolitic stability has been proved to be effective to increase recovery factor.
IV.
CONCLUSIONS
The presence of co-surfactant PMO in the surfactant mixture has a great inCuence on the solubility of surfactant in the targeted-Cuid reservoir.
One milky phase solution was observed in the addition of PMO associated with the ethoxy groups in the molecular structure of PMO.
The addition of PMO into the surfactant solution was also shown to be effective in decreasing the IFT from 10-1 dyne/ cm to the ultralow level and can be maintained under elevated temperature for two months.
Core Cooding experiments to investigate the performance of surfactant indicated that slug design with surfactant polymer in the presence of PMO followed by polymer drive is the most effective slug design to recover oil production with additional recovery at 35% Sor.
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