Testing Investigation of Protective Coatings for Downhole Oil Tube

  • Zhang, Liping (CNPC Research Institute of Engineering Technology) ;
  • Zhang, Qibin (CNPC Research Institute of Engineering Technology) ;
  • Zhang, Yanjun (CNPC Research Institute of Engineering Technology) ;
  • Xie, Beibei (CNPC Research Institute of Engineering Technology) ;
  • Zhang, Yingying (CNPC Research Institute of Engineering Technology)
  • Published : 2008.02.01

Abstract

Aiming at the corrosion circumstances and corrosion prevention needs of downhole oil tubes, series protective coatings for downhole oil tubes have been developed in the authors' laboratory, including a baked type coating YG-01 and an air curing type coating YG-03, etc. The performance investigation of the coatings has been done for testing their corrosion resistance, mainly including salt fog test, immersion test in oil-field waste water and various acid solutions, high temperature and high pressure test in alkali solution or $H_2S/CO_2$ environment, as well as some other performances. The investigation results show that oil tube anti-corrosion coatings developed here can endure over 4000 hrs salt fog test, over 1000 hrs immersion in various acid solutions at room temperature and in boiling oil-field waste water. In addition, the coatings can keep intact after experiencing test in alkali solution under 70 MPa pressure at $150^{\circ}C$ for 24 hrs, and in simulative sour gas environment under the total pressure of 32 MPa ($P_{H_{2}S}=3.2MPa$, $P_{CO_{2}}=3.2MPa$) at $90^{\circ}C$ for 168 hrs, which show that the coatings can be used for corrosion prevention in downhole environments with specific high temperature and high pressure, such as sour gas wells. The other testing results show the oil tube protective coatings have excellent comprehensive performance.

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