Method for integrally catalyzing, reforming, reducing viscosity, extracting and transporting thick oil

A catalytic upgrading and heavy oil technology, applied in the direction of production fluid, earthwork drilling, wellbore/well components, etc., can solve the problems of reducing the density of heavy oil, reducing the quality of thin oil, heat conduction loss, etc., to weaken the interaction force , Saving thin oil resources and improving the quality of heavy oil

Inactive Publication Date: 2010-02-17
SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIV
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Among them, the thinning and viscosity-reducing method can not only reduce the viscosity of heavy oil, but also reduce the density of heavy oil, increase the relative density difference between oil and water, and is more conducive to dehydration, but the mass ratio of thin oil to heavy oil is as high as 1.0-1.5:1. Such a large amount of thin oil consumption leads to problems in the supply of thin oil. Finally, the heavy oil mixed with thin oil not only reduces the quality of thin oil but also reduces the quality of heavy oil; heating viscosity reduction methods include steam huff and puff, steam flooding, burning oil layers and Electric heating, etc., due to heat conduction loss and high energy consumption, are not suitable for deep heavy oil exploitation and long-distance ...

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[0014] According to the mass ratio of thin oil to heavy oil of 0.40, condensate oil and heavy oil with a viscosity of 9084mPa·s at 50°C are fully stirred and mixed in the wellbore, so that the viscosity of the heavy oil meets the requirements of production and well station pipeline transportation. Oil (with a viscosity of 126mPa·s) is delivered to the catalytic reforming device through pipelines. Thin heavy oil is heated to a certain temperature through the heat exchangers 3 and 7, and then heated to 350°C by the heating furnace 8. The distillate oil before 350°C is evaporated in the distillation tower 9, and then cooled to 60°C by the heat exchanger 7. Below ℃, inject the thin oil into the wellbore through the wellbore thin oil input pipe 12 and use it for circulation and dilution. After 350°C, the distillate oil is decatalytically upgraded. The distillate after 350°C is heated to 370°C through the heating furnace 10, mixed with the ferric oleate catalyst (0.05 wt%) pumped f...

Embodiment 2

[0016] According to the mass ratio of thin oil to heavy oil of 0.50, light hydrocarbons in the oil field and heavy oil with a viscosity of 13210mPa·s at 50°C were fully stirred and mixed in the wellbore to make the viscosity of the heavy oil meet the requirements of production and well station pipeline transportation. Oil (with a viscosity of 124mPa·s) is delivered to the catalytic reforming device through pipelines. According to the method described in Example 1, the mixed heavy oil was catalytically upgraded by adding catalyst nickel oleate (amount of 0.06 wt%) at 380°C for 40 minutes. The measured viscosity of the modified heavy oil is 165mPa·s, and the viscosity reduction rate of the modified heavy oil is 98.75%.

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[0018] According to the mass ratio of thin oil to heavy oil of 0.60, straight-run gasoline and heavy oil with a viscosity of 17460mPa·s at 50°C were fully stirred and mixed in the wellbore, so that the viscosity of the heavy oil could meet the requirements of production and pipeline transportation in the well station, and the mixed thin thick oil was obtained. Oil (with a viscosity of 78mPa·s) is delivered to the catalytic reforming device through pipelines. According to the method described in Example 1, a catalyst copper oleate (amount of 0.07wt%) was added for catalytic upgrading at 390° C. for 50 minutes. The measured viscosity of the modified heavy oil is 297mPa·s, and the viscosity reduction rate of the modified heavy oil is 98.30%.

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Abstract

The invention relates to a method for integrally catalyzing, reforming, reducing the viscosity, extracting and conveying thick oil in thick oil deposit extraction, which can reduce the mixing amount of thin oil and lead the separated thick oil to be transported outside after catalyzing, quality improving and viscosity reducing. The method comprises the following steps: mixing thin oil with thick oil in a pitshaft according to the mass ratio of 0.4-1.0 of the thin oil to the thick oil so as to reduce the viscosity of the thick oil; extracting the thick oil mixed with the thin oil from the pitshaft, warming up by a heat exchanger, heating by a heating furnace to 350 DGE C, leading the oil to enter a distilling tower, collecting distillate oil with the temperature being lower than 350 DGE C,cooling the oil by the heat exchanger and filling the thick oil mixed with thin oil into the pitshaft for cycling; conveying heavy distillate oil with the temperature being up to 350 DGE C to the heating furnace by a pump for warming up, adding a reforming catalyst by a pump, and conveying the mixture to a reaction tower; catalyzing and reforming the heavy distillate oil into thick oil with low viscosity under the action of the reforming catalyst, and directly transporting the reformed thick oil outside after heat exchange. The thin oil mixed by the method can be cycled, and separating the thick oil from the thin oil does not damage the characteristics of oil. The method which has wide application range and favorable viscosity reduction effect and enables the quality of thick oil to be improved is used for thick oil extraction.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to an integrated method for heavy oil catalytic modification, viscosity reduction, production and transportation in the exploitation of heavy oil reservoirs in oilfields, which belongs to the new technology of heavy oil exploitation. Background technique [0002] Heavy oil refers to degassed crude oil with a viscosity greater than 100mPa·s at the reservoir temperature, but usually above 1000mPa·s. Its outstanding features are high content of asphaltene and colloid, and high viscosity. The root of the high viscosity of heavy oil is the macromolecule micellar structure formed by asphalt colloids in the system. In heavy oil, there are strong hydrogen bonds between colloid molecules, asphaltene molecules and between them. Asphaltene aromatic heterocondensed ring planes overlap and stack together, and are fixed by hydrogen bonds between polar groups, stack up to form particles, and then aggregate into asphaltene micelles of different...

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IPC IPC(8): E21B43/24
Inventor 唐晓东陈亮王豪吴燕崔亚军王萍萍郭巧霞
Owner SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIV
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