The Development and Field Test of High Efficient Foam Unloading Agent Based on Gemini Surfactant and Nanomaterials

Abstract

The high efficient foam unloading agent was developed to solve the problem of unloading of liquid loading gas well with high gas temperature, salinity and high concentration of H2S gas and gas condensate. The Gemini anionic surfactant with special comb structure was synthesized as foaming agent molecule, the modified nanoparticles with certain size and degree of hydrophobicity was adopted as solid foam stabilizer, and the fluorocarbon surfactant was designed and synthesised as gas condensate resistance components. The indoor experiment results show that the foam unloading agent showed good foaming and foam stabilizing ability when the temperature is as high as 150°C, salinity is up to 250000 ppm and H2S concentration up to 2000 ppm. Besides, the foam unloading agent present good liquid carrying ability when the volume fraction of gas condensate is as high as 50%. The field test of this foam unloading agent in Longfengshan north 201-XY well shows that, the average gas production increased from 7256 m3/day to 11329 m3/day, increased by 56%, the average differential pressure between tubing and casing dropped from 2.66 MPa to 2.38 MPa, fell by 10.5%, both liquid yield and gas production are obvious, which prove that the foam unloading agent can meet the demand of drainage gas recovery for high content gas condensate gas field.