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China Surfactant Detergent & Cosmetics ›› 2023, Vol. 53 ›› Issue (6): 649-657.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2097-2806.2023.06.006

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Construction and plugging performance evaluation of emulsified thermosetting resin system

Zhen Enlong1,2,Zhang Wen1,2,Qian Zhen1,2,Du Ruotong3,Wang Yang3,*()   

  1. 1. Research Institute of Petroleum Engineering Technology, Northwest Oilfield Company, SINOPEC, Urumqi, Xinjiang 830000, China
    2. Key Laboratory of Enhanced Oil Recovery in Fracture-vasty Carbonate Reservoirs, China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation,Beijing 102206, China
    3. College of Petroleum Engineering, Xi'an Shiyou University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710065, China
  • Received:2022-10-20 Revised:2023-05-31 Online:2023-06-22 Published:2023-06-25
  • Contact: *Tel.: +86-18149053797, E-mail: wyang2235@126.com.

Abstract:

With the development of water flooding in fractured reservoirs with high temperature (reservoir temperature of 130 ℃), the problem of fracture channeling by water injected becomes more and more prominent. Epoxy resin has the characteristics of high strength and aging resistance after curing at high temperature, which is a potential high-temperature plugging agent. Since epoxy resin is not easy to be injected and difficult to cure under wet conditions, the epoxy resin was emulsified by the phase inversion method. A variety of emulsifiers were selected to emulsify epoxy resin (E-44) with tap water and simulated formation water as the water phase, and the emulsifiers suitable for both kinds of water were screened out. Then single-factor experiments were carried out to study the effects of stirring speed, emulsifying temperature, water adding speed, mass fraction of emulsifier, and oil-water volume ratio on the phase inversion process of epoxy resin and the properties of emulsion. Finally, the orthogonal experiment was used to analyze the level of each factor and determine the optimal emulsifying process. The results of differential scanning calorimetry showed that the curing temperature of the system was 129.5 ℃, and it had good plugging effect after curing at reservoir temperature.

Key words: epoxy resin, emulsion, curing agent, thermal stability, plugging

CLC Number: 

  • TQ423