WO2002095189A1 - Method of determining the extent of recovery of materials injected into oil wells - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a method for determining the extent of recovery of materials injected into an oil well during oil and gas exploration and
- the present invention particularly relates to a method for determining the extent of recovery of materials injected into an oil well during oil and gas exploration and production using chemical tracers.
- the present Invention relates generally to hydrocarbon (oil and gas) production from wells drilled in the earth, hereinafter referred to as "oil wells.” Drilling a hole into the earth to reach oil and gas bearing formations is expensive which limits the number of wells that can be economically drilled. It follows then that it is desirable to maximize both and the overall recovery of hydrocarbon held 25 in the formation and the rate of flow from the subsurface formation to the surface, where it can be recovered.
- Hydraulic fracturing involves literally breaking or fracturing a portion of
- the hydrocarbon bearing formation surrounding an oil well by injecting a specialized fluid into the wellbore directed at the face of the geologic formation at pressures sufficient to initiate and/or extend a fracture in the formation.
- a fracture zone i.e., a zone having multiple fractures, or cracks in the formation, through which hydrocarbon 35 can more readily flow to the wellbore.
- Creating a fracture in a hydrocarbon-bearing formation requires several materials. Often these materials, if not removed from the oil well, can interfere with oil and gas production. Even the drilling mud used to lubricate a drill bit during the drilling of an oil well can interfere with oil and gas production. Taking too long to remove such materials can increase the cost to the operator of the well by delaying production and causing excess removal expenses. Not being thorough in removing such materials can increase the cost to the operator of the well through lower production rates and possible lost production.
- Measures taken to remove unwanted or unneeded materials are usually inexact. Sometimes additional fluids are used to flush out unwanted materials in the well bore. In other situations, reservoir fluids flow can make estimating return flow very difficult, particularly if the reservoir fluids are incompatible with the injected materials. It would be desirable in the art of oil and gas production to be able to determine how much of a given material is left in an oil well after a drilling, fracturing or any other operation requiring the injection of materials into an oil well. It would be particularly desirable if such a determination could be made using an inexpensive and environmentally benign method.
- the present invention is a method for determining the extent of recovery of materials injected into a oil well comprising the steps of: a) preparing a material to be injected into an oil well; b) admixing therewith a chemical tracer compound at a predetermined concentration; c) injecting the admixture into an oil well; d) recovering from the oil well a production fluid; e) analyzing the production fluid for the concentration of the chemical tracer present in the production fluid; and f) calculating the amount of admixture recovered from the oil well using the concentration of the chemical tracer present in the production fluid as a basis for the calculation. DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
- oil well means hydrocarbon (oil and gas) production wells drilled in the earth.
- the method of the present invention can also be used with other types of wells that are drilled in the earth and can require stimulation by hydraulic fracturing, such as a well used for water flooding in secondary recovery operations in oil and gas production.
- oil well means hydrocarbon production wells, but also any other type of well that can require stimulation by hydraulic fracturing.
- the present invention is a method for determining the amount of fracture materials recovered after the stimulation of an oil well by means of hydraulic fracturing.
- Creating a fracture in a hydrocarbon-bearing formation requires several materials. Most often these include a carrier fluid, a viscosifier, a proppant, and a breaker. Other components that are sometimes added include materials to control leak-off, or migration of the fluid into the fracture face, gel stabilizers, surfactants, clay control agents and crosslinkers.
- the purpose of the first fracturing component is to first create/extend a fracture in an oil and gas producing formation and then, once it is opened enough, to deliver proppant.
- the carrier fluid together with proppant material is injected into the fractured formation.
- the carrier fluid is simply the means by which the proppant and breaker are carried into the formation.
- the carrier fluid is often prepared by blending a polymeric gelling agent with an aqueous solution although sometimes the carrier fluid is oil-based or a multi-phase fluid.
- the polymeric gelling agent is a solvatable polysaccharide, e.g., galactomannan gums, glycomannan gums, and cellulose derivatives. The purpose of the solvatable or hydratable polysaccharides is to thicken the aqueous solution so proppant can be suspended in the solution for delivery into the fracture.
- the polysaccharides function as viscosifiers, increasing the viscosity of the aqueous solution by 10 to 100 times, or even more.
- a cross-linking agent is further added which further increases the viscosity of the solution.
- the borate ion has been used extensively as a crosslinking agent for hydrated guar gums and other galactomannans to form aqueous gels, e.g., U.S. Pat. No. 3,059,909.
- Other demonstrably suitable cross- linking agents include: titanium as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,888,312, chromium, iron, aluminum, and zirconium as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,301,723. More recently, viscoelastic surfactants have been developed which obviates the need for thickening agents, and hence cross-linking agents.
- the process of removing the fluid from the fracture once the proppant has been delivered is referred to as "fracture clean-up.”
- the final component of the fracture fluid becomes relevant: the breaker.
- the purpose of the breaker is to lower the viscosity of the fluid so that it is more easily removed from the fracture.
- the present invention is a method for determining the amount of drilling fluid recovered after the completion of an oil well.
- a drilling fluid is a fluid specially designed to be circulated through a wellbore as the wellbore is being drilled to facilitate the drilling operation.
- the circulation path of the drilling fluid typically extends from the wellhead down through the drill pipe string to the drilling face and back up through the annular space between the drill pipe string and wellbore face to the wellhead.
- the drilling fluid performs a number of functions as it circulates through the wellbore including cooling and lubricating the drill bit, removing drill cuttings from the wellbore, aiding in support of the drill pipe and drill bit, and providing a hydrostatic head to maintain the integrity of the wellbore walls and prevent well blowouts.
- Drilling muds comprise high- density dispersions of fine solids in an aqueous liquid or a hydrocarbon liquid.
- An exemplary drilling mud is a dispersion of clay and/or gypsum in water.
- the solid component of such a dispersion is termed a "weighting agent" and is designed to enhance the functional performance of the drilling fluid.
- the extent of recovery of materials injected into a oil well during fracturing, drilling and the like is determined by preparing the fracture materials or drilling fluids to be injected into an oil well and admixing therewith a chemical tracer compound at a predetermined concentration.
- the tracers useful with the present invention include any known to those ordinary skill in the art of using chemical tracers in oil and gas operations to be useful, but preferably are those which can be detected at concentrations low enough to make their use economically practical in such operations and low enough to interfere with the carrier fluid or other materials present in the oil well.
- the chemical tracers useful with the present invention include but are not limited to: fluorinated benzoic acids including 2- fluorobenzoic acid; 3-fluorobenzoic acid; 4-fluorobenzoic acid; 3,5- difluorobenzoic acid; 3,4-difluorobenzoic acid; 2,6-difluorobenzoic acid; 2,5- difluorobenzoic acid; 2,3-difluorobenzoic acid; 2,4-difluorobenzoic acid; pentafluorobenzoic acid; 2,3,4,5-tetrafluorobenzoic acid; 4-(trifluoro- methyl)benzoic acid; 2-(trifluoromethyl)benzoic acid; 3-(trifluoro-methyl)benzoic acid; 3,4,5-trifluorobenzoic acid; 2,4,5-trifluorobenzoic acid; 2,3,4-trifluorobenzoic acid; 2,3,5-trifluorobenzoic acid; 2,3,6-trifluorobenzoic acid; 2,4,6-trifluorobenzo
- any chemical compound can be used as tracer with the present invention if it is not present at a measurable level in the reservoir fluids being produced from the well being tested, it can be measured at levels sufficiently low to allow its use to be economical, and the tracer does not interfere or interact undesirably with other materials present in the oil well at the levels used.
- the tracers are detectable at a range of from about 1 parts per trillion to about 10,000 parts per million in the fluid being analyzed.
- the tracers are detectable at a range of from 5 parts per trillion to about 1,000 parts per million. More preferably the tracers are detectable at a range of from 100 parts per trillion to about 100 parts per million.
- concentrations greater than about 1000 parts per million the use of some tracers can become prohibitively expensive or cause unacceptable interactions with other materials present in an oil well.
- the tracers of the present invention are desirably compatible with the fluids wherein they are used.
- the tracer selected is chosen to be more compatible with the injected materials than with the reservoir fluids which may recovered concurrently with the injected materials.
- the fluorinated benzoic acids are particularly preferred as tracers for the present invention because they are compatible in both aqueous fluids as a salt and in organic based fluids as an acid.
- more than one tracer can be used to measure multiple operations in the same well.
- oil wells often have more than one producing strata or zone.
- a fracture job could be done on one strata using a first tracer and a fracture job could be done on another strata using a second tracer.
- horizontal drilling has allowed for the drilling of multiple bores terminating in a common bore which connects to the surface.
- several different tracers could be used to keep track of concurrent recovery of materials from the several legs (lateral bores) of such wells.
- the method of the present invention is used in a process to fracture stimulate multiple intervals in single or multiple formations, within the same wellbore. This is performed by: (i) perforating a first interval; (ii) stimulating that first interval; (iii) isolating the first interval, (iv) perforating a second interval; (v) stimulating the second interval; (iii) isolating the second interval; and continuing this pattern.
- the operator of the well will then retrieves the isolation mechanism, typically a bridge plug, between each interval and begins to clean up all of the stimulated intervals, often at one time.
- the method of the present invention is very useful in such an operation because a different tracer can be used in each interval and thus can be individually detected during the flowback.
- the method of the present invention thereby provides an opportunity for a well operator to determine which to what extent each of the intervals is contributing to the flowback.
- a tracer is admixed with a material that is to be injected into an oil well.
- the tracer can be premixed with the injection material or it can be admixed as it is injected.
- the tracer is admixed with the injection material through a static mixer as the admixture is pumped into the oil well. Any method known to those of ordinary skill in the art of admixing and injecting materials into oil wells can be used with the method of the present invention.
- a ten percent solution of a fluorinated benzoic acid salt tracer is pumped into the stream of fluids being used for a hydraulic fracture job, just upstream of a static mixer, using a peristaltic pump to meter the tracer into the stream of fluids.
- the pump used to feed the tracer solution into the fracture fluids is a triplex or a centrifugal pump.
- the metering pump is adjusted such that the tracer is injected into the fracture fluids at a rate that results in a predetermined tracer concentration appropriate for the conditions in the oil well. The same process can also be used for injecting tracer into a stream of drilling fluids.
- the chemical tracer compound is admixed with a material to be injected into an oil well at a predetermined concentration.
- concentration of the tracer is above its detection limits and preferably at a concentration of ten times its detection limits.
- concentrations of the tracer and the total amount of admixture injected is determined and known.
- the fluid injected into an oil well during the practice of the present invention After the fluid injected into an oil well during the practice of the present invention has performed its purpose, it is preferably recovered. Most often, the injected materials are recovered along with reservoir fluids as a production fluid. In the practice of hydraulic fracturing of wells, this phase of the process is the fracture clean up. In conventional practices, this process can take an extended amount of time where up to 72 hours would not be unusual.
- the recovered materials are tested for tracer concentration and the amount of material recovered determined.
- a relative rate of recovery can also be determined by measuring the concentration of tracer in the production fluids recovered from an oil well as a function of time. In a process such as this, samples of production fluid being recovered from the well are taken, analyzed for tracer concentration that is then plotted against time and /or flow rates. This can also be a desirable way for an operator to decide when to begin production from an oil well.
- the tracers used with the method of the present invention can be analyzed by any method known to those of ordinary skill in the art of doing such analyses to be useful.
- a fluorinated benzoic acid tracer of the present invention an emulsion of hydrocarbons, water and naturally occurring inorganic materials is first acidified with dilute hydrochloric acid and then extracted using a nonpolar solvent.
- the organic phase is then admixed with a 1 normal sodium hydroxide solution and then extracted with water.
- the water is then reacidified and extracted with methylene chloride.
- the recovered methylene chloride is then analyzed for the tracer, optionally after being reduced in volume by evaporation.
- solvents can be used.
- cyclohexane normal hexane, pentane
- organic solvents such as benzene and toluene can also be used as long as care is used to make sure that the solvent does not have a significant background level of the tracer being used.
- very low levels of tracer can be determined by taking advantage of the carboxylate group to first separate the tracer from non-acidic organics as a salt and then, in a second step, concentrate the tracer into an organic solvent by returning it to its acid form and then extracting it from an aqueous phase.
- GC gas chromatograp y
- LC liquid chromatography
- infrared spectroscopy combination instrumentation such as Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, GC-mass spectroscopy, LC-mass spectroscopy, and the like.
- Fluids produced from oil wells can contain hazardous or toxic materials and steps should be taken to ensure the safety of lab personnel including, but not limited to, avoiding fire hazards, scrubbing or removing H 2 S and other harmful gasses, and limiting skin contact with possible carcinogens.
- Quality assurance should be done as with any analytical procedure including using internal standards, external standards, and the like to ensure the accuracy of analyses.
- Recovery efficiencies can vary from oil well to oil well. It is important not to overlook simple steps such as accurately measuring sample volumes and filtering irrelevant solids from samples prior to analysis.
- Any analytical method that can detect the chemical tracers useful with the method of the present invention at useful levels can be used with the present invention.
- the tracer is in the form of a coating on a solid substrate.
- the tracer is released gradually into production fluid over time.
- solids such as proppant or pack sand
- this use of the tracers of the present invention would allow for an estimation of the amount of co-injected solids in place in the well. If too little tracer were detected after completion of the injection, or if the tracer level decreased too quickly after completion, an oil well operator would know that the injected solids were either not properly placed in the well or are being washed out or otherwise being removed from the oil well.
- a field application of the method of the present invention is performed in an oil and gas well penetrating the Codell formation in Weld County, Colorado.
- a first material (referred to in the art of hydraulic fracturing as a "stage” or, in this case, “the first stage") is prepared for fracture injection into the well including 0.15 gallons per thousand gallons (gpt) (0.15 liters per thousand liters (Ipt)) buffer and 1 gpt (Ipt) of GBW23L* which is a high temperature oxidizing gel breaker, 40 pounds per thousand pounds (ppt) (40 kilograms per thousand kilograms (kgpkkg)) gelling agent, and a first fluorinated benzoic acid tracer; in water.
- a second stage is prepared which includes 1-to-2 lbs/gal (0.58 kg/L to 1.15 kg/L) proppant; 0.15 gpt buffer; 1 gpt (Ipt) of GBW23L; 1 gpt (Ipt) BC31* gel breaker activator which is a low temperature oxidizing breaker activator; 40 ppt (kgpkkg) gelling agent; a second fluorinated benzoic acid tracer; and 2.5 (ppt) (kgpkkg) gel stabilizer, in water.
- a third stage is prepared which includes 3 lbs/gal (1.75 kg/L) proppant; 40 ppt (kgpkkg) gelling agent; 0.20 gpt (Ipt) buffer; 1 gpt (Ipt) GBW23L; 1 gpt (Ipt) BC31; 1ppt (kgpkkg) Ultra Perm * breaker which is a low temp oxidizing breaker; 1 ppt (kgpkkg) gel stabilizer; a third fluorinated benzoic acid tracer; and 1.5 ppt (kgpkkg) gel crosslinking agent, in water.
- a fourth stage is prepared which includes 4 lbs/gal (2.33 kg/L) proppant; 40 ppt (kgpkkg) gelling agent; 0.20 gpt (Ipt) buffer; 3 ppt (kgpkkg) GBW5 breaker which is a low temp oxidizing breaker; a fourth fluorinated benzoic acid tracer, and 1 ppt (kgpkkg) Ultra Perm.
- Each stage is injected, in turn, under fracture injection conditions. The flow back is tested for the presence and relative concentration of each tracer using a GC-mass spectrometer.
- the comparative amounts of tracer returned are: (A) Fourth fluorinated benzoic acid tracer highest concentration; (B) Second fluorinated benzoic acid tracer next highest concentration; (C) First fluorinated benzoic acid tracer next highest concentration; and (D) Third fluorinated benzoic acid tracer lowest concentration.
- the third material injected had the most stable gel structure, effectively locking it into the formation and thus had the lowest flow back and resulting in the lowest recovery of tracer. It can also be concluded that the fourth material, being last injected and replete with gel breaking materials would have the greatest flowback and thus the highest recovery of tracers.
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