期刊
JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
卷 266, 期 -, 页码 14-19出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2017.11.016
关键词
H2S; Sulfate; Souring; Oil field; Sulfate-reducing bacteria; Microbial community
资金
- NSERC Industrial Research Chair Award
- Baker Hughes
- BP
- Computer Modelling Group Limited
- ConocoPhillips
- Dow Microbial Control
- Enbridge
- Enerplus
- Intertek
- Oil Search Limited
- Shell
- Suncor Energy
- Yara
- Alberta Innovates
Oil production by water injection often involves the use of makeup water to replace produced oil. Sulfate in makeup water is reduced by sulfate-reducing bacteria to sulfide, a process referred to as souring. In the MHGC field souring was caused by using makeup water with 4 mM (384 ppm) sulfate. Mixing with sulfate-free produced water gave injection water with 0.8 mM sulfate. This was amended with nitrate to limit souring and was then distributed fieldwide. The start-up of an enhanced-oil-recovery pilot caused all sulfate-containing makeup water to be used for dissolution of polymer, which was then injected into a limited region of the field. Produced water from this pilot contained 10% of the injected sulfate concentration as sulfide, but was free of sulfate. Its use as makeup water in the main water plant of the field caused injection water sulfate to drop to zero. This in turn strongly decreased produced sulfide concentrations throughout the field and allowed a decreased injection of nitrate. The decreased injection of sulfate and nitrate caused major changes in the microbial community of produced waters. Limiting sulfate dispersal into a reservoir, which acts as a sulfate-removing biofilter, is thus a powerful method to decrease souring.
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