510 results about "Acid fracturing" patented technology

An acid fracturing method is provided in which the acid is generated in the fracture by hydrolysis of a solid acid-precursor selected from one or more than one of lactide, glycolide, polylactic acid, polyglycolic acid, a copolymer of polylactic acid and polyglycolic acid, a copolymer of glycolic acid with other hydroxy-, carboxylic acid-, or hydroxycarboxylic acid-containing moieties, and a copolymer of lactic acid with other hydroxy-, carboxylic acid or hydroxycarboxylic acid-containing moieties. The solid acid-precursor may be mixed with a solid acid-reactive material to accelerate the hydrolysis and/or coated to slow the hydrolysis. Water-soluble liquid compounds are also given that accelerate the hydrolysis. The method ensures that the acid contacts fracture faces far from the wellbore.

A well treating composition contains an aqueous acid and at least one relatively lightweight proppant, preferably having an apparent specific gravity (ASG) less than or equal to 2.45. The acid fracturing composition may used to acid fracture a hydrocarbon reservoir within a subterranean formation of an oil or gas well. The composition may further be used to stimulate the production of hydrocarbons. The proportion of relatively lightweight proppant to acid in the composition is such that the dimensional fracture conductivity (C_fD) is in excess of 1.0. The aqueous acid typically has an ASG substantially equal to the ASG of the relatively lightweight particulate. As such, the relatively lightweight particulate is suspended in the aqueous acid.

Fluids produced from a fractured subterranean formation may be monitored by pumping into the well a fracturing fluid which contains a tracer. The method may be used to monitor produced hydrocarbons as well as produced water. The tracer may also be used in a sand control, frac pack or acid fracturing operation. The tracer is a component of a composite where it may be immobilized within a matrix (such as an emulsion) or porous particulate, onto a support or compressed with a binder into a solid particulate. The tracer may be slowly released from the composite.

Disclosed are acid fracturing methods for subterranean siliceous formations employing a viscous dissolving fluid to create a permeable conduit that bypasses the near wellbore damage. The viscous dissolving fluids used according to the invention are acid-fracturing treatment fluids containing a dissolving agent viscosified with a material such as a viscoelastic surfactant, and the fluid is injected into a sandstone formation at a pressure sufficient to create a hydraulic fracture. Also, the viscous dissolving fluid leaks off into the faces of the fracture thus “stimulating” the formation. Hence when the hydraulic fracture has closed there is a part of the formation that has been effectively stimulated, creating a pathway for fluids to preferentially flow to the wellbore. The formation may then be flowed back to produce a substantial volume of the treatment fluid.

A method for diverting the majority of the fluid injected into a stratified subterranean formation, that has at least one problematic zone and at least one hydrocarbon zone, into the hydrocarbon zone includes injection of a viscous diverting fluid made with a gelling amount of a surfactant and an acid before the main treatment; after the treatment the acid decomposes the surfactant. The main treatment may be hydraulic fracturing, acid fracturing and matrix acidizing. The fluid used as the diverting fluid may also be used as the carrier fluid in hydraulic fracturing or gravel packing. Destruction of the surfactant alleviates the potential of diverters or carrier fluids to damage formations.

An aqueous oilfield treatment fluid containing a chelating agent and an HF source is described. This fluid is effective at dissolving siliceous materials such as clays and keeping the dissolved materials in solution. In particular it is effective at preventing re-precipitation of initially-dissolved silicon as silica and therefore reduces damage to sandstones with which it is contacted. Methods are given for using this fluid for sandstone matrix stimulation, removal of clay-containing drilling fluid components and filter cakes from wellbores, sandstone acid fracturing, and gravel pack and proppant pack cleaning.

The present invention relates to viscoelastic fluids that contain nanotube structures that may be used advantageously as oilfield stimulation fluids in many different applications, most particularly as a fracturing fluid. Viscoelastic fluid compositions of the present invention include an aqueous medium, a viscoelastic surfactant, an organic or inorganic acids, or salt thereof, organic acid salts, inorganic salts, and a nanotube component. The invention is also called to a methods of treating a subterranean well bores in which the viscoelastic fluid is injected into the wellbore to perform operations such as fracturing, drilling, acid fracturing, gravel placement, removing scale, matrix acidizing, and removing mud cake. Further, a method of preparing a nanotube viscoelastic fluid comprising the steps of effectively mixing a carbon nanotube component into a viscoelastic fluid, and sonicating the mixture in order to incorporate the carbon nanotube component is claimed.

The invention discloses a high-flow-conductivity acid fracturing method for carbonate rock reservoirs, and belongs to the field of reservoir reconstruction technologies. The high-flow-conductivity acid fracturing method includes applying acid fracturing processes for corroding crack by acid fluid and hydraulic fracturing processes for filling the crack with added sand in a combined manner, to be more specific, forming the crack in the carbonate rock reservoirs by the aid of non-reactive ahead fluid and reducing the surrounding temperatures of wall surfaces of the crack; injecting high-concentration acid fluid systems to corrode the wall surfaces of the artificial crack and forming uneven grooves in the wall surfaces of the crack by means of corroding to allow the crack to have certain flow-conductivity after the crack is closed; enabling high-viscosity sand-carrying fluid to carry proppants and flow into crack systems and filling the crack with the high-viscosity sand-carrying fluid to further improve the flow-conductivity of the crack. The high-flow-conductivity acid fracturing method has the advantages that the high-flow-conductivity acid fracturing method is reasonable in design, simple in process and convenient to implement in fields, the high-flow-conductivity crack systems with the acid-corroded crack and crack closing supporting functions can be formed, oil and gas flow resistance can be reduced, the acid fracturing reconstruction effects can be improved for the carbonate rock reservoirs, and the high-flow-conductivity acid fracturing method can be widely used for acid fracturing reconstruction construction for limestone, dolomite and carbonate rock oil and gas reservoirs with mud.

The invention relates to a pumping stop sand setting fracture-height-controlling acid fracturing process method applicable to a carbonate reservoir. The method comprises the following work procedures that before the normal fracturing, low-viscosity slickwater is adopted for fracture making, and the initial fracture height is controlled; then, after the slickwater enters the stratum in a way of carrying support agent sand, the pumping stop is adopted for prompting the support agent sand to be settled near a fracture opening, so that each stage of support agent sand shields the back section in advance, a high-intensity artificial separation layer is formed, the stress state is changed, and the goal of effectively controlling the lower fracture height extending to prevent the communication with the lower part water body is achieved; low-viscosity fracturing fluid is injected for fracture making at a stable discharge capacity; after the fracturing fluid enters the stratum, acid liquid is injected for etching the stratum, and high-flow-guide capability artificial fractures are formed; after the acid liquid is extruded into the stratum, the pumping is stopped for measuring the pressure drop, and the construction is completed. The process has the advantages that the artificial separation layer can be formed, the fracture height vertical direction extending can be controlled, the stress state is changed, and the goals of effectively controlling the lower fracture height extending and preventing the communication with the lower part water body are achieved.

A method for fracturing a subterranean formation is provided in which inert masking material particles are injected into the formation with a dissolution agent so that the masking material inhibits dissolution where it contacts a portion of one or both fracture faces. The undissolved regions provide support to keep the fracture open after the treatment and the dissolved regions provide a conductive pathway for flow of fluid to or from the wellbore.

The invention relates to an oil field production technique, in particular to a fracturing method applied under the oil well to improve new well production capacity of low permeability reservoir before being brought into production. The fracturing reformation course at least comprises common fracturing technique and is characterized in that the method uses a compound application of more than two techniques of the use of acid fracturing liquid, or diversion agent or acid liquid and diversion agent by adopting high-energy gas fracturing technique; the upper sealed fracturing pipe is adopted during the working of hydraulic fracturing; the acid liquid is adopted during a pad fluid stage as the working liquid; the diversion agent is added for one or more times to seal fractured cracks; an increasing working flow rate is adopted before and after the adding of the diversion agent. The method of the invention can increase oil discharging area after fracturing, reduce expansion rate of clay minerals in fractured reservoir and improve completion of oil well reformation, fracturing effect and production capacity of low permeability reservoir after fracturing.

The invention discloses a novel acidified fractured thickening agent and a preparation method thereof, and belongs to the field of macromolecular synthesis. The thickening agent is prepared by the method comprising the following steps: adopting a water solution polymerizing method, oxidizing and reducing an evocating agent, adding proper amount of chain extender into a sealed system, and copolymerizing the mixture by the reaction of methacryloyloxy trimethyl-ammonium chloride (DMC), acrylamide (AM) and 2-acrylamido-2-methyl propane sulfonic acid (AMPS). The thickening agent has the advantages of acid resistance and high temperature resistance, has favorable thickening effect, and is applied to the fields of acidified fracturing construction, strengthening oil extraction work and the like in petroleum extraction.

A method of creating multiple fractures in a well traversing a formation is described using pressurized fluids in a highly deviated or horizontal section of the well at a pressure above the fracturing pressure of the formation, wherein for creating a fracture the pressurized fluid is alternated between an acid fracturing fluid and a proppant loaded fluid, such that the proppant blocks the flow of pressurized fluid into a fracture created during a previous step of the method and the subsequently pressurized acid fracturing fluid creates a new fracture at a location along the highly deviated or horizontal section different from the location of the previously created fracture.

The invention provides a fractural diverting acid-fracturing method for carbonate oil-gas reservoirs. The method includes the steps of 1, injecting 50-5000 cubic meters of fracturing fluid into a stratum at a displacement speed of 2.0-15.0 m<3>/min; 2, injecting 5-100 cubic meters of material fluid into the stratum at a displacement speed of 1.0-15.0 m<3>/min, and allowing pumping at a displacement speed of 0.5-4.0 m<3>/min after the material fluid enters a preset intra-fracture bridge plug; 3, injecting 50-500 cubic meters of fracturing fluid into the stratum at a displacement speed of 3.0-15.0 m<3>/min to allow forced fractural diverting; 4, injecting 20-300 cubic meters of acid fluid at a speed of 2.0-15.0 m<3>/min to allow modification by acid etching; performing at least one operation of steps from 2 to 4. The method has the advantages that multiple diverted acid-fracturing fractures can be formed after repeated multiple of temporary plugging and fracture forming, temporary plugging material degrades after acid-fracturing construction is complete, low pollution is caused to reservoirs, and the method helps improve acid-fracturing efficiency.

The invention relates to a self-born acid composite acid fracturing process for a high-temperature deep well carbonate rock reservoir. The process comprises the following work procedures of: (1) injecting slick water into a stratum through an oil pipe; (2) injecting non-crosslinked fracturing liquid into the stratum through the oil pipe; (3) injecting a self-born acid system into the stratum through the oil pipe; (4) injecting a gelled acid system into the stratum through the oil pipe in a low-displacement mode; and (5) injecting the slick water into the stratum through the oil pipe, wherein the volume proportions of liquid, accounting for the total liquid injected into the stratum, injected in the first to fifth work procedures are shown as follows: the slick water in the first work procedure accounts for 3 to 10 percent; the non-crosslinked fracturing liquid in the second work procedure accounts for 40 to 60 percent; the self-born acid system in the third work procedure accounts for 30 to 50 percent; the gelled acid system in the fourth procedure accounts for 3 to 10 percent; the volume proportion of the slick water in the fifth work procedure is 3 to 15 percent; and the volume unit is m<3>. Through the self-born acid composite acid fracturing process, the flow guide capability is improved by more than 140md.m, and the deep penetration effect of the high-temperature deep well carbonate rock reservoir is obvious.

A method is given for diverting acids in matrix acidizing and acid fracturing. The acids are diverted with a diverting agent that is an energized or foamed acidic viscoelastic surfactant system that contains a viscoelastic surfactant that gels and increases in viscosity when the acid in the foamed acidic viscoelastic surfactant system is spent. The method provides a synergistic combination of the diverting capabilities of foams and the diverting capabilities of viscoelastic gel systems. The resistance to flow of the gelled foamed viscoelastic surfactant system is greater than expected from a foam or a viscoelastic gel system alone.

A method of treating a subterranean formation with a retarded self-diverting fluid system. The method includes contacting the formation with a mixture of acid, chelating agent, and betaine surfactant in which the betaine surfactant is mixed with an aqueous solution of the chelating agent in which the pH has been adjusted to a pH of below about 3.0, but above the pH at which the free acid of the chelating agent precipitates, and the resulting fluid system is utilized for both acid fracturing and matrix stimulation, as well as workover procedures such as scale and filter cake removal, especially in high temperature formations.

An aqueous viscoelastic surfactant (VES) fluid foamed or energized with carbon dioxide, in which the VES is more compatible with the carbon dioxide, is made by the addition of one or more than one synergistic co-surfactant. The synergist co-surfactant includes quaternary amines and ethoxylated carboxylates having a hydrophobic chain shorter than the hydrophobic chain of the VES. Improved compatibility is evidenced for a given surfactant concentration either by formation and maintenance of a foam under conditions at which the foam could not otherwise have been formed or maintained, or by either higher viscosity of the foamed fluid at a given temperature or longer foam life at a given temperature or a higher temperature at which useful fluid viscosity can be generated or maintained for a useful time. The aqueous carbon dioxide foamed fluids may be used in acidizing, acid fracturing, gravel packing, diversion, and well cleanout.