A friction reducing treatment solution that includes water, from 100 to 500,000 ppm of total dissolved solids, and from 0.5 to 3 gallons per thousand gallons of a water-in-oil emulsion containing a water soluble polymer. The total dissolved solids include at least 10 weight percent of a multivalent cation. The water-in-oil emulsion includes an oil phase and an aqueous phase, where the oil phase is a continuous phase containing an inert hydrophobic liquid and the aqueous phase is present as dispersed distinct particles in the oil phase and contains water, the water soluble polymer, and surfactants and an inverting surfactant. The water soluble polymer is made up of 20 to 80 weight percent of a non-ionic monomer, 0.5 to 30 weight percent of a carboxylic acid containing monomer, and 5 to 70 weight percent of a cationic monomer and makes up from 10 to 35 weight percent of the water-in-oil emulsion.
Water-in-oil emulsion composition and method of treating subterranean formation using same
申请人:SOLVAY USA INC.
公开号:US10584277B2
公开(公告)日:2020-03-10
A method of treating a portion of a subterranean formation that includes: providing a water-in-oil emulsion, inverting the water-in-oil emulsion to form a friction reducing treatment solution, and introducing the treatment solution into the portion of the subterranean formation. The water-in-oil emulsion has an oil phase, an aqueous phase and surfactants. The oil phase (O) and an aqueous phase (A) are present at an O/A ratio of from about 1:8 to about 10:1. The oil phase is present as a continuous phase and contains an inert hydrophobic liquid. The aqueous phase is present as a dispersed phase of distinct particles in the oil phase and includes water and a water soluble polymer. The water soluble polymer makes up from 10 to 25 weight percent of the water-in-oil emulsion. The water-in-oil emulsion is inverted by adding it to water to form a friction reducing treatment solution.
Formulations for fracturing fluids are prepared by mixing a granulated water-soluble friction reducing polymer with an invert polymer emulsion friction reducing formulation optionally in the presence of an organophilic clay, without the need for specialized field equipment. The mixture can be dosed into water to produce a fracturing fluid which is found to be technically highly advantageous and cost-effective.
A water-in-oil emulsion having an oil phase (O) and an aqueous phase (A) at an O/A ratio of from about 1:8 to about 10:1; wherein the water-in-oil emulsion includes the oil phase as a continuous phase that includes an inert hydrophobic liquid, and the aqueous phase as a dispersed phase of distinct particles in the oil phase that includes water, a water soluble polymer, and at least one surfactant; wherein the water soluble polymer includes from about 1 to about 60 weight percent of one or more cationic monomers, wherein the amount is by total weight of the water soluble polymer; wherein the water soluble polymer is present in an amount from about 5 to about 40 weight percent of the water-in-oil emulsion; and wherein an aqueous solution prepared by inverting the water-in-oil emulsion by adding it to water has at least comparable viscosity build to an aqueous solution made from a water-in-oil emulsion of the same composition containing 15 weight percent more water soluble polymer. Also provided is a method of treating a portion of a subterranean formation that includes the steps of: (a) providing a water-in-oil emulsion according to the present disclosure; (b) inverting the water-in-oil emulsion by adding it to water at from about 0.1 to about 5 gallons of water-in-oil emulsion per thousand gallons of water to form a friction reducing treatment solution containing from about 0.0005 weight percent to about 0.12 weight percent water soluble polymer based on the weight of the treatment solution; and (c) introducing the treatment solution into the portion of the subterranean formation.
Provided herein are friction reducer formulations including a formate salt and an inverting surfactant, and methods of manufacturing such formulations. Methods of using the friction reducer formulations, such as for treating subterranean formations, are also provided.