Ketone Solvent to Reduce the Minimum Miscibility Pressure for CO2 Flooding at the South Sumatra Basin, Indonesia
2020
Adi Novriansyah | Wisup Bae | Changhyup Park | Asep K. Permadi | Shabrina Sri Riswati
This paper experimentally analyzes the chemical additives, i.e., methanol and ethanol, as alcohol solvents, and acetone as a ketone solvent, and the temperature influencing the minimum miscibility pressure (MMP) that is essential to design miscible CO2 flooding at an oil field, the South Sumatra basin, Indonesia. The experiments were designed to measure CO2-oil interfacial tension with the vanishing interfacial tension (VIT) method in the ranges up to 3000 psi (208.6 bar) and 300 degrees Celsius. The experiment results show that lower temperatures, larger solvent volumes, and the acetone were effective in reducing MMP. The acetone, an aprotic ketone solvent, reduced MMP more than the methanol and the ethanol in the CO2-oil system. The high temperature was negative to obtain the high CO2 solubility into the oil as well as the lower MMP. The experimental results confirm that the aprotic ketone solvent could be effective in decreasing the MMP for the design of miscible CO2 flooding at the shallow mature oilfields with a low reservoir temperature.
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