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SP chemical flooding using seawater is a less complex approach to chemical flooding than ASP flooding. The main deficiency of SP flooding is the potential higher surfactant requirement; however, the avoidance of complex water treatment, large amounts of chemicals required, and scaling anticipated with ASP makes SP the likely more feasible option. In this paper, the development of a simple to implement seawater based chemical formulation for application in field pilot in a high temperature (90°C) and high salinity reservoir (> 200,000 TDS) is described.

Formulations containing mixtures of different surfactants have been evaluated using phase behavior in contact with oil, and aqueous phase stability experiments. The IFT reduction of some of the most promising formulations were subsequently evaluated using spinning drop method. Core floods were conducted to ultimately evaluate the ability of the most promising formulations to recover oil remaining after water flood. In addition, the long-term stability of these formulations was evaluated.

Core floods were conducted in outcrop and reservoir rock with the most promising identified surfactant formulations. Some of the experiments used a seawater preflush while other experiments injected the SP formulation directly after a waterflood with high salinity formation water. All corefloods used an SP slug mixed in seawater followed by a polymer chase that is also mixed in seawater (i.e. without a salinity gradient). From the corefloods it is concluded that these formulations can successfully mobilize residual oil left after water flood with formation water from reservoir rock at 90°C without the need for a pre-flush. Removing the need for a pre-flush reduces complexity, time, and effort for a potential implementation of SP in the field.

Although the concept presented in this paper have been introduced earlier, the application to high temperature and high salinity reservoir settings is novel.

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2023-10-02
2025-06-13

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Seawater Based Surfactant Polymer Formulation for High Temperature and High Salinity Conditions in North Kuwait Field
Conference Proceedings 2023, 1 (2023); https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.202331008
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