Chemical flooding with improved injectivity

Wells – Processes – Distinct – separate injection and producing wells

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166 91, 166274, 166275, 252 8554, F21B 4322

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048526525

ABSTRACT:
A caustic waterflooding process for enhanced oil recovery from a production well is disclosed comprising injection of an aqueous solution under pressure to sweep oil to the production well. That aqueous solution comprises a caustic and a polymer that has an intrinsic viscosity that is at least twice as high in its hydrolyzed form than in its unhydrolyzed form, wherein the polymer is injected with less than 15% of polymer being hydrolyzed. The aqueous solution contains from 100 to 5,000 ppm of polymer and 100 to 50,000 ppm of caustic. Such solutions have improved injectivity and good efficiency in recovering oil from underground formations.
Preferably, the polymer is injected with from 5% to 10% of polymer being hydrolyzed. That polymer is preferably a polyacrylamide (such as a polyacrylamide homopolymer, a polymethylacrylamide homopolymer, or a copolymer of acrylamide and monomers selected from the group consisting of methylacrylamide, N-alkyl-substituted acrylamides, alkylacrylates, and acrylic acids).

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