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An apparatus and method produces nitrate ions on-site from water, natural gas and air extracted in proximity to the apparatus. The apparatus generates nitrate ions and brings the nitrate ions into contact with an aqueous system. Hydrogen sulfide present in the aqueous system is removed and the production of hydrogen sulfide by sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) is eliminated by introducing into the system nitrate ions, whereby denitrifying microorganisms, using nitrate, outcompete the sulfate-reducing bacteria for the available carbon nutrients, thus preventing the SRB from producing hydrogen sulfide. Nitrate ions generated by the apparatus and added to the aqueous system which contains the denitrifying microorganisms can enhance oil recovery by means of microbial enhanced oil recovery mechanisms.

An electrical current generating system is disclosed that includes a fuel cell operating at a temperature of at least about 250° C. (for example, a molten carbonate fuel cell or a solid oxide fuel cell), a hydrogen gas separation system or oxygen gas delivery system that includes a compressor or pump, and a drive system for the compressor or pump that includes means for recovering energy from at least one of the hydrogen gas separation system, oxygen gas delivery system, or heat of the fuel cell. The drive system could be a gas turbine system. The hydrogen gas separation system or the oxygen gas delivery system may include a pressure swing adsorption module.

A foam drive method for enhancing oil recovery efficiently is initiated by injecting into a subterranean oil-bearing formation, an aqueous polymer solution as a preceding-slug. This is followed by periodically injecting simultaneously or alternately a non-condensible gas and an aqueous solution of foaming composition to form a combined foam under ground or periodically injecting the combined foam formed beforehand by the gas and said aqueous solution above ground. The aqueous solution of foaming composition comprises an alkali, a surfactant and a polymer. Thereafter, an aqueous polymer solution used as a protecting-slug is injected into the formation; followed by continuing water-flooding.

The invention discloses a complex foam extinguishing agent for a coal mine and belongs to the technical field of fire prevention and extinguishing. The extinguishing agent is prepared from the following raw materials: main materials are 40 to 60 percent aqueous solution of ammonium bicarbonate or sodium bicarbonate and concentrated sulfuric acid in a solute mass ratio of 2:1-3:1, and auxiliary materials are a stabilizer and a foamer, wherein the auxiliary materials are 0.1 to 2 percent of the total weight of the main materials. Through a test, the extinguishing agent has the foaming coefficient of 20-200 and the foam stabilizing time of more than or equal to 2.5 hours. According to the foam extinguishing agent, the foam of inert gas carbon dioxide is applied to fire prevention and extinguishing of the coal mine, and the foam is diffused in a fire area and fills a fire space, so that the oxygen concentration in the fire area is rapidly reduced, fire is extinguished due to oxygen deficiency in the fire area, temperature is reduced and a fire extinguishing effect is good. The technology also can be applied to coal bed transformation, CO2 foam is easily absorbed by coal to displace partial methane, the recovery ratio of coal seam gas is improved, and CO2 is acid to reduce the generation of secondary precipitates, so that a gas drainage effect is improved. The complex foam extinguishing agent is simple and feasible, and low in cost.

A kind of mining oil gas method of the convection heating up oil-shale, involves the underground solid state energy and the mineral mining method improvement. The existing technical mining method efficiency is low, the cost is high, the scale is small, the big area implements and lacks the market competition ability with difficulty. This invention through in the ground arrangement group well, and selects the compression fracture method causes the group well to be interlinked, then the gap takes turns to choose the note hot-well and work-well, hot-well pours into 400 deg.C - 700 deg.C steam along the note oil-shale the ore level, heats up the ore level causes cheese root thermal decomposition to form the oil gas, and carries after the low temperature steam or the water along the production separates to the ground, finally forms the oil gas product. In the separation process may simultaneously the pre- hot water, and uses the water-injection well withdraws with work-well the convection way dries up oil-shale and the ore level around shale region afterheat, thus realized the goal of this invention is fast, big scale, low cost from oil-shale ore level mining oil gas.

The invention discloses an intelligent oil well simulation experiment system and a experiment method. The intelligent oil well simulation experiment system comprises a three-dimensional heterogenous reservoir simulating box, a wellbore hole simulator, a fluid injecting module, a fluid generating module, a data acquiring module, an automatic control module, a constant temperature module, a saturation probe, a pressure sensor and a temperature sensor. The wellbore hole simulator is arranged in the three-dimensional heterogenous reservoir simulating box, the automatic control modules realizes the real-time extraction and injection on the wellbore hole simulator through controlling the fluid injecting module and the fluid generating module; and the data acquiring module is used for monitoringinjected and extracted fluid, and monitoring the saturation, the temperature and the pressure in the simulating box in real time, and a computer is used for optimizing and analyzing the monitoring data, controlling the injection and extraction flow in real time through the automatic control module, simulating and realizing multilayer comingling production, sectional extraction of a horizontal well, extraction of a multi-branch well and control strategy of an injection and extracting well, and perfecting the researches of real-time optimization, real-time regulation and the like of the production.

The invention relates to an oil-displacing agent for enhancing crude oil recovery efficiency in tertiary recovery and a preparation method thereof, belonging to the technical field of intensified oilproduction in oil fields. The surface active agent used in the invention comprises following components in percentage by weight: 0.01-0.3 percent of water soluble high molecular polymer, 0-20 percentof non-ionic surface active agent, 5-65 percent of anion active agent, 0-5 percent of ampholytic active agent, 0.01-1.5 percent of additive and the balance of water. The oil-displacing agent and the polymer are based on a novel intensified oil displacing system which has complementary structure and good compatibility and is obtained by various associations and the interaction among molecules. Thesystem has the performances of high temperature resistance, salt resistance, higher viscosity, ultralow interfacial tension, and the like, is in accordance with the environmental requirement and can obviously enhance the oil recovery efficiency of oil fields after being used for oil-displacing.

An oil recovery process is disclosed which uses an alkali(s) and a particular class of alkylaryl sulfonate surfactants. The surfactants are derived from an alpha-olefin stream having a broad distribution of even carbon numbers ranging from 12 to 28 or more. The olefin stream is reacted with aromatic feedstock, such as benzene, toluene, xylene, ethylbenzene, or a mixture thereof to form alkylates, and then reacted with SO3 to form sulfonic acids. Alternatively, the surfactant can be formed by first reacting an alpha-olefin stream having a broad distribution of carbon numbers ranging from 12 to 28 or more with SO3 to form the olefin sulfonic acid that is subsequently used to alkylate an aromatic feedstock. The use of alkali(s) and broad distribution alpha-olefins sulfonate based surfactant has the improvements of requiring ultra-low surfactant concentrations and providing ultra-low interfacial tensions over a wide range of alkali concentrations with crude oils, especially waxy crude oil, having a broad distribution of carbon numbers.

A gas generator includes an oxygen inlet, a gaseous fuel inlet, a water, steam and/or CO2 inlet and a water borne fuel inlet. The water borne fuel is combusted within the gas generator along with the oxygen and the gaseous fuel to produce products of combustion including substantially only steam and carbon dioxide. The water borne fuel can be a water fuel solution, emulsion, mixture or other combination. The water borne fuel can either provide only a small portion of the total fuel into the gas generator or provide up to all of the fuel input into the gas generator. The combustion products are discharged from the gas generator and then power is extracted, such as through a turbine. The products of combustion can then be separated, such as within a condenser. Carbon dioxide is thus removed and can be readily sequestered away from the atmosphere to avoid emission of greenhouse gases.

The present invention relates to a method to enhance oil recovery from a hydrocarbon reservoir. One aspect of the invention includes injecting low-salinity water into the reservoir followed by the injection of a surfactant diluted in low-salinity water, and alternating the injections of the low-salinity water and the surfactant diluted in the low-salinity water. A gas is then injected into the reservoir. The invention improves the effectiveness of the surfactant and the gas by reducing the salinity of the reservoir by injecting low-salinity water into the reservoir.

The invention discloses an ultrasonic-assisted reservoir stratum chemical blockage removal experimental facility and an experimental method. The experimental facility comprises a rock core clamp holder, a ring compression feed device, an ultrasonic energy converter, an ultrasonic generator, a chemical reagent storage tank connected with a liquid inlet of the rock core clamp holder by a conveying pipeline, a water storage tank, an oil storage tank and a liquid container connected with a liquid outlet of the rock core clamp holder. The experimental method comprises the following steps of: 1, pretreating a tested rock core; 2, testing the initial permeability of the rock core through water drive; 3, polluting the rock core; 4, testing the permeability of the polluted rock core through the water drive; 5, performing an ultrasonic-assisted chemical reagent blockage removal experiment; 6, testing the permeability of the rock core subjected to the blockage removal through the water drive; 7,performing the ultrasonic-assisted chemical blockage removal experiment under the condition of ultrasonic oscillation with different frequencies and amplitudes; and 8, processing data. The ultrasonic-assisted reservoir stratum chemical blockage removal experimental facility has reasonable design, complete functions and high using effect, is easy and convenient to arrange and operate, and can realize the pulse fluctuation of the chemical blockage removal under the action of the ultrasonic oscillation.

The present disclosure provides a polymer gel and method of making and using the same for use in high-permeability layers. This precision conformance control is accomplished by using paramagnetic nanoparticles and the application of the magnetic oscillation of prescribed frequency at the wellbore. If the polymer gel were created unintentionally at a certain layer, or there is a need to remove the gel blockage at the later stage of oil production, the gel could be broken and removed to restore the productivity from the layer.

The invention discloses a non-linear associated water soluble quadripolymer as well as a preparation method and use thereof, comprising: adding 20 parts of acrylamide, 1-20 parts of nionic monomer or/and cationic monomer, 0.1-15 parts of macromonomer, 0.05-10 parts of hydrophobic monomer, 0.1-50 parts of surfactant and 60-1000 parts of deionized water to a three-necked reaction flask, adjusting the pH to be 3-9, adding 0.002-1 part of initiator (persulphate) at 30-75 DEG C after introducing N2 for 30min, reacting for 8-36h to obtain the quadripolymer PACH, diluting with water, and obtaining concentrated PACH solution. The macromonomer with a long chain and the hydrophobic monomer with a molecular association function are simultaneously introduced in a copolymer PACH, which can obtain the best synergistic viscosifying between rigid conformation of a molecular chain and molecular association and salt resistance. The non-linear associated water soluble quadripolymer is obtained. The copolymer is prepared into aqueous solution with the mass concentration of 0.2-3g/l and the surfactant concentration of 0.01-2mmol/l, added to a mixing vessel with a stirring device and evenly stirred at the room temperature to obtain a viscosified, salt-resistant and shear-resistant polymer oil displacement agent. The PACH has dual functions of a viscosifier and a high molecular surfactant; minute amount of a low molecular surfactant is added to the PACH solution, thus improving the apparent viscosity of the solution, reducing the surface tension of solution and the water-oil interfacial tension, and being beneficial to improving the crude oil recovery ratio. A copolymer PABE is prepared into the aqueous solution with the mass concentration of 0.05-7% to obtain high molecular surfactant with excellent surface activity, and the high molecular surfactant is used as an emulsifier, a demulsifier, a solubilizer and a wetting agent.

A process for enhanced oil recovery from an extraction operation comprises the steps of selection of an appropriate hydrocarbon bearing stratum; providing at least one production well and one injection well; and injecting into the target stratum a slurry formed from sand, viscous liquids or oily sludge, which is delivered at or near formation fracture pressures. Monitoring of bottom hole pressure is carried out, to permit delivery of the slurried wastes in a series of injection episodes, in which the length of the episodes and interinjection periods is determined by maintaining the bottom hole pressure within a preselected range. The position and spread of the slurried wastes within the target stratum may be monitored through the use of additional monitoring steps.

The present invention is a system and method for steam production for oil production. The method includes generating steam, mixing the steam with water containing solids and organics, separating solids, and injecting the steam through an injection well or using it above ground for oil recovery, such as for generating hot process water. The system includes a steam drive direct contact steam generator. The water feed of the present invention can be hot produced water separated from a produced oil emulsion and/or low quality water salvaged from industrial plants, such as refineries and tailings from an oilsands mine.