مطالعه آزمایشگاهی آسیب سازند ناشی از نشست رسوب آسفالتین در نفت خام‌های با محتوای آسفالتین پایین

نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی

نویسندگان

1 پژوهشکده مهندسی نفت، پردیس توسعه صنایع بالادستی نفت، پژوهشگاه صنعت نفت، تهران، ایران

2 دانشکده مهندسی شیمی، دانشگاه سمنان، ایران

چکیده

در این مقاله، سیستم آزمایشگاهی نشست دینامیکی آسفالتین بر روی مغزه در فرآیند تخلیه طبیعی تهیه گردیده و طی انجام آزمایشات تخلیه طبیعی، تحت دما و فشار مخزن اثر کاهش فشار و میزان آسفالتین اولیه موجود در نفت، در نشست آسفالتین بر روی مغزه مورد بررسی قرار گرفت. در این تحقیق از دو نمونه نفت زنده از مخازن نفتی ایران، با محتوای آسفالتین پایین استفاده شد. نتایج آزمایش که در دبی ثابت نفت تزریقی و در سه مرحله فشاری در هر مورد نفت خام انجام شده است نشان می‌دهد که با کاهش فشار در نزدیکی نقطه حباب مخزن شاهد ایجاد نشست آسفالتین بر روی مغزه خواهیم بود و مشاهدات تایید می‌نمایند، مکانیسم آسیب سازند از نوع نشست سطحی ذرات و انسداد گلوگاهی می‌باشد. در ضمن در بازه‌ای از زمان تزریق، همراه بردگی رسوبات توسط جریان سیال مشاهده می‌گردد. در‌خصوص نفت‌های با محتوای آسفالتین پایین‌تر، نشست سطحی بیشتر غالب است و سرعت نشست ذرات یکنواخت و ثابت است در حالی‌که هر چه قدر محتوای اولیه آسفالتین در نفت خام بیشتر می‌شود مکانیسم انسداد گلوگاهی نیز در کاهش تراوایی نقش موثرتری خواهد داشت. 
 

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عنوان مقاله [English]

Experimental Investigation of Formation Damage due to Asphaltene Deposition in Crude Oils with Low Asphaltene Content

نویسندگان [English]

  • Abbas Shahrabadi 1
  • Kamran Parizad 2
  • Masoud Nasiri 2
  • Saeed Abbasi 1
1 Petroleum Engineering Research Division, Research Institute of Petroleum Industry (RIPI), Tehran, Iran
2 Chemical Engineering Department, Semnan University, Iran
چکیده [English]

In this paper, a setup for performing dynamic flow experiments was prepared. A set of natural depletion tests were done to investigate the effects of pressure depletion and the initial asphaltene content of crude oils on asphaltene deposition in porous media using two live oil samples of Iranain reservoirs. The results of these experiments, which were done in constant rate and three pressure steps, show that the asphaltene deposition occurs by decreasing pressure in the vicinity of bubble point pressure and the main mechanisms are surface deposition, pore throat plugging and in some period the entrainment of the particles via the flow of oil is observed. According to the experiments, in case of the oils with less asphaltene content, the dominant mechanism is surface deposition, and the rate of deposition is uniform, while using the crude oil with higher asphaltene content, the pore throat plugging mechanism has more important role in the permeability reduction of reservoir rock.
 

کلیدواژه‌ها [English]

  • Asphaltene Deposition
  • Natural Depletion
  • Formation Damage
  • Mechanism
  • Asphaltene Content
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