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Binary Corrosion Inhibitors Offer Improved Corrosion Control
Binary Corrosion Inhibitors Offer Improved Corrosion Control
Corrosion Control
Gene H. Zaid, SPE, and Donald W. Sanders, Jacam Chemicals LLC
duced to one every 48 months. Downhole failure expense was thus are treated with 1.5 gallons once every 2 weeks. Chemical is added
reduced by U.S. $11,100 per year. by batch treatment with a treater truck with 4-bbl overflush. Again,
Fig. 3 illustrates the immediate and sustained reduction in well an 8-year study was done. Total downhole failures were reduced
failures after the switch in chemical was made. Note that the binary by 84%. There were two pump repairs in the 4 years before the
corrosion chemical was started before the end of the year in 1998 binary treatment and none in the 4 years since. Pumps on these
and was already at work reducing failures. The spike in 2000 was wells are always repaired when tubing is pulled. Downhole failure
a result of nine rod failures in two wells, which were caused by expense has thus been reduced by U.S. $66,600 over the 4 years,
loose rod couplings, rather than corrosion. Additionally, a decision or U.S. $16,650 per year.
was made that year to replace old tubing when dynamometer test- Fig. 4 also shows dramatic reductions in well failures. Again,
ing discovered thread leaks. When tubing was pulled, only one the binary corrosion chemical was started on 1 December 1998,
corrosion pit failure was found (which was external and on the top which helped lower repairs for that year somewhat.
sub directly below the surface).
Los Angeles Basin. The wells in this study produce from the
Bindley. This field is located in Hodgeman County in southwest Alamitos and Brown zones, with depths ranging from 2,500 to
Kansas, developed in 1972 and 1973. Production is from the Mis- 4,700 ft. Total fluid production averages between 400 and 750 B/D
sissippi dolomite formation at a depth of 4,600 ft. There are 14 and oil percentages vary from 2.3 to 7.6%.
rod-pumped wells in the field. Fluid production varies from 25 to Approximately 80 wells previously treated with another epoxy-
300 B/D. H2S is dissolved in the produced brine at 150 to 500 amine product were selected for preliminary testing of the binary
ppm. All the wells are pumped off. corrosion inhibitor. Iron-count monitoring (a proven method of
This was another test site for the binary corrosion inhibitor. confirming corrosion inhibition in CO2 systems) was used to track
Low fluid-production wells are now treated once monthly with 1 corrosion control for these wells. As a result of successful testing,
gallon of binary corrosion inhibitor. Higher fluid-production wells the majority of the operator’s 145 producing wells were switched
Fig. 4—Bindley well failures (reductions in well failures after the switch from a conventional polar-amine corrosion inhibitor to the
binary corrosion inhibitor).
to the binary corrosion inhibitor, including 30 wells previously duced by the formation, clearly indicating improved corrosion con-
treated with conventional corrosion chemicals. trol. Representative iron testing results are shown in Figs. 5 and 6.
The wells were initially treated with binary corrosion inhibitor Fig. 5 displays the iron counts of three wells treated with an-
once per week by batch application with a treater truck. After close other epoxy-amine product and downward trends in iron levels
analysis of the produced water, it was determined that several of observed after changing to the binary corrosion inhibitor in March
the wells were experiencing high abrasion/erosion corrosion, and 2002 (dotted vertical line). Sharp drops in iron after each treatment
for these wells, treatment was increased to twice per week. For the are also evident. Significant reductions of iron achieved in all three
majority of the wells, iron levels dropped to those naturally pro- wells matched desired goals set by the operator.
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3. Zaid, G.H.: “Dispersed Oil Soluble Corrosion Inhibitor and Water
Soluble Phosphonate Scale Inhibitor Composition,” U.S. Patent No. Molecular weight of amine
4,713,184 (1987). Number of available hydrogen
× 100
4. Wu, Y.: “Composition and Method for Corrosion Inhibition,” U.S. Weight per epoxide
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with 100 parts by weight of resins 冊
Patent No. 4,526,813 (1985).
by weight of amine to be used
5. Cummings, L.O.: “Method for Coating Wet Surfaces of Surfaces Im- =
mersed in Water,” U.S. Patent No. 4,022,946 (1977).
6. Bull. SC:67-01, EPON Resin Structural Reference Manual, Resolution
Performance Products (2001) Chap. 3, 3-1–3-2.
SI Metric Conversion Factors
Appendix bbl × 1.589 873 E-01 ⳱ m3
Binary Chemistry.6 Binary resins are characterized by the pres- B/D × 1.589 873 E–01 ⳱ m3/d
ence of epoxide functionality: ft × 3.048* E-01 ⳱ m
*Conversion factor is exact.