Effective Self-Preservation of Methane Hydrate Particles in Crude Oils

• Main Authors: A. S. Stoporev, A. Yu. Manakov
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Gas hydrate; Gas liberation; Self-preservation; Water-in-oil emulsion; Methane hydrate; Siberia
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/1080934; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1080934

In this work we investigated the behavior of methane hydrates dispersed in crude oils from different fields at temperatures below 0°C. In case of crude oil emulsion the size of water droplets is in the range of 50e100"m. The size of hydrate particles formed from droplets is the same. The self-preservation is not expected in this field. However, the self-preservation of hydrates with the size of particles 24±18"m (electron microscopy data) in suspensions is observed. Similar results were obtained for four different kinds of crude oil and model system such as asphaltenes, resins and wax in ndecane. This result can allow developing effective methods to prevent the formation and elimination of gas-hydrate plugs in pipelines under low temperature conditions (e. g. in Eastern Siberia). There is a prospective to use experiment results for working out the technology of associated petroleum gas recovery.