Xinjiang Petroleum Geology ›› 2006, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (2): 213-215.

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Effect of Surfactant on Natural Gas Hydrate

WU You1, YE Zhong-bin1, ZHANG Zhi1, SHI Xue-zhi1, WU Xiao-ni2   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of Oil-Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum Institute, Chengdu, Sichuan 610500, China;
    2. Research Institute of Engineering, Liaohe Petroleum Exploration Bureau, Petro China, Panjing, Liaoning 124000, China
  • Received:2005-06-16 Revised:2005-06-16 Online:2006-04-01 Published:2020-10-30

Abstract: Surfactant can be used not only to increase generated velocity of natural gas hydrate, but also to inhibit from its generation. The former effect will bring itself to broad prospect for commercial application due to its huge gas capacity and safe and convenient storage feature. The latter one could result in plugging of equipment and pipe, affecting normal production and transportation and even more cause off production, owing to forming the hydrate in the gas flowing process. Hence, adding some surfactant can effectively avoid such a generation of natural gas hydrate.

Key words: natural gas, hydrate, surfactant, effect

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