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Synthesis and Performance Evaluation of Temperature and Salt-Resistant Foam Drainage Agent XY-1

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The production of the gas well continues to decline due to the prevailing accumulation of flowback fluid in the well. The flowback fluid can be carried out by agitation of the airflow at the bottom of the gas well after a foam drainage agent is added, thereby increasing the production of the gas well. The high temperature at the bottom of the well and the high salinity, pH, and methanol content of the flowback fluid will affect the foaming and foam stabilization performance of a foam drainage agent. To solve these problems, a betaine-type foam drainage agent XY-1 is synthesized by a two-step etherification and one-step quaternization method. The agent’s synthesis conditions were optimized, the best reaction temperature was 50 °C, the optimal feeding ratio of DED to CHPS-Na was 1:7, and the best reaction time was 8 h. The foaming and foam stabilization performance of the foam drainage agent were evaluated using the ross–miles method. The experimental results show that foam drainage agent XY-1 can effectively reduce the surface tension of pure water to less than 25mN/m and has good performance at 40 g/L salinity, 90 °C high temperature, and 15% condensate of methanol. Compared with foam drainage agent used on site, foam drainage agent XY-1 has better performance than foam drainage agent used on site.

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Abbreviations

TBAB:

Tetrabutylammonium bromide

MSDS:

Epichlorohydrin

LGE:

Lauryl glycidyl ether

DED:

1-(2-(Dimethylamino) ethoxy)-3-(dodecyloxy) propyl-2-ol

DEA:

[3-((2-(3-(Dodecyloxy)-2-hydroxypropoxy)ethyl)dimethylamino)-2-hydroxypropane-1-sulfonate sodium] ammonium chloride

CHPS-Na:

Sodium 3-chloro-2-hydroxypropyl sulfonate

DMEA:

N,N-dimethylethanolamine

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to Professor Nanjun Lai for his guidance on this article, Yaoling He for the experimental design and writing of this article, and Xiaochen Zhang, Jiawen Deng, and Zhouxin Wang for their help in the experiment.

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This work was supported by The key laboratory of well stability and fluid & rock mechanics in Oil and gas reservoir of Shaanxi Province, Xi’an Shiyou University [NO.WSFRM20210402001]; Oil & Gas Field Applied Chemistry Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province [NO. YQKF202010].

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    Nanjun Lai, Yaoling He, Xiaochen Zhang, Jiawen Deng & Zhouxin Wang

  2. College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, 610500, People’s Republic of China

    Nanjun Lai, Yaoling He, Xiaochen Zhang, Jiawen Deng & Zhouxin Wang

  3. Oil and Gas Field Applied Chemistry Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, No. 8 Xindu Avenue, Xindu, Chengdu, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China

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Lai, N., He, Y., Zhang, X. et al. Synthesis and Performance Evaluation of Temperature and Salt-Resistant Foam Drainage Agent XY-1. Arab J Sci Eng 48, 8911–8923 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-022-07531-9

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