石油学报 ›› 2015, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (6): 760-766.DOI: 10.7623/syxb201506014

• 石油工程 • 上一篇    下一篇

天然气水合物热力学抑制剂作用机制及优化设计

赵欣, 邱正松, 黄维安, 周国伟, 张永君   

  1. 中国石油大学石油工程学院 山东青岛 266580
  • 收稿日期:2014-11-03 修回日期:2015-03-23 出版日期:2015-06-25 发布日期:2015-08-06
  • 通讯作者: 邱正松,男,1964年8月生,1985年获华东石油学院学士学位,2001年获石油大学(华东)博士学位,现为中国石油大学(华东)石油工程学院教授、博士生导师,主要从事油气井化学与工程方面的教学与科研工作。Email:qiuzs63@sina.com
  • 作者简介:赵欣,男,1987年2月生,2009年获中国石油大学(华东)学士学位,现为中国石油大学(华东)油气井工程专业博士研究生,主要从事海洋深水钻井液以及天然气水合物抑制剂研究工作。Email:upczhaoxin@126.com
  • 基金资助:

    国家重点基础研究发展计划(973)项目(2015CB251205)和国家重大科技专项(2011ZX05030-005-07)资助。

Inhibition mechanism and optimized design of thermodynamic gas hydrate inhibitors

Zhao Xin, Qiu Zhengsong, Huang Weian, Zhou Guowei, Zhang Yongjun   

  1. School of Petroleum Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Shandong Qingdao 266580, China
  • Received:2014-11-03 Revised:2015-03-23 Online:2015-06-25 Published:2015-08-06

摘要:

基于2种典型天然气水合物生成预测理论模型,结合水合物热力学抑制剂评价实验数据以及水活度测试结果,分析了水合物热力学抑制剂影响天然气水合物生成条件的作用机制,建立了水合物生成温度降低值与水活度的关系式。结果表明,水合物热力学抑制剂降低水合物生成温度,或提高水合物生成压力的作用机制是降低溶液的水活度,其抑制水合物生成效果随水活度的降低线性增加。通过模拟深水钻井环境,对 典型的水合物热力学抑制剂氯化钠,以及钻井液常用的有机盐甲酸钠进行了水活度测试以及水合物抑制效果评价实验,探讨了可降低钻井液水活度的有机盐加重剂Weigh作为水合物抑制剂的可能性。结果表明,加入氯化钠或甲酸钠降低水活度至0.84,钻井液可在1 500 m水深条件下循环16 h无水合物生成 ;Weigh可大幅降低溶液水活度,水合物抑制效果优于氯化钠、甲酸钠以及由氯化钠和乙二醇组成的复合抑制剂。针对深水钻完井作业中遇到的必须使用低密度钻井液或完井液的情况,初步优化设计了低密度水合物抑制剂,可保证钻井液和完井液在低密度条件下(1.05~1.07 g/cm3)有效抑制水合物生成。

关键词: 深水钻井, 天然气水合物, 热力学抑制剂, 预测模型, 作用机制, 水活度, 有机盐, 低密度

Abstract:

Based on two kinds of typical theoretical prediction models for gas hydrate formation in combination with evaluation experimental data of thermodynamic hydrate inhibitors as well as the test results of water activity, the influence mechanism of thermodynamic hydrate inhibitor on hydrate formation conditions was analyzed to establish the relation between the drop value of hydrate formation temperature and water activity. The results indicate that the effect mechanism of thermodynamic hydrate inhibitor to reduce hydrate formation temperature or increase hydrate formation pressure is to lower water activity, and the hydrate inhibition performance is increased linearly with the decrease in water activity. The deepwater drilling environment was simulated for water activity test and evaluation experiments o n hydrate inhibition performance for the typical thermodynamic hydrate inhibitor (sodium chloride) and common organic salt additive (sodium formate) of drilling fluid. Meanwhile, the possibility of organic salt weighting agent (Weigh) as hydrate inhibitor to reduce the water activity of drilling fluid was explored. The results show that no hydrate is formed in drilling fluid after 16 h cycling at 1 500 m water depth, when water activity was reduced to be 0.84 by adding sodium chloride or sodium formate. Weigh can lower water activity significantly, and its hydrate inhibition performance is better than sodium chloride, sodium formate and the composite inhibitor of sodium chloride and glycol. Aiming at the situation that low-density drilling fluid or completion fluid is necessarily required in deepwater drilling and completion, optimal design is performed to low-density hydrate inhibitor preliminarily, guaranteeing drilling fluid and completion fluid to inhibit hydrate formation effectively in case of low density (1.05~1.07 g/cm3).

Key words: deepwater drilling, gas hydrate, thermodynamic inhibitor, prediction model, effect mechanism, water activity, organic salt, low density

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