Abstract: The invention relates to a process for treating production water resulting from enhanced oil recovery, said production water comprising an aqueous phase and an organic phase dispersed in said aqueous phase, and at least one polymer in the aqueous phase, said process comprising: a step of bringing said production water into contact with an additive comprising at least one tetrakis(hydroxymethyl)phosphonium salt (THMP salt), a step of separating the aqueous phase and the organic phase of said production water comprising said additive, by means of a hydrocyclone. The invention also relates to an enhanced recovery process using a step of treating the production water according to the invention.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for enhanced hydrocarbon recovery in a subterranean formation, in particular enhanced crude oil recovery, using at least one water-soluble terpolymer in aqueous solution, said water-soluble terpolymer being a partially hydrolysed polyacrylamide of formula (I) wherein X is an alkali metal cation chosen from sodium, lithium or potassium, or an ammonium cation NH4+; the coefficients a, b and c being defined in the following way: a a + b + c is greater than or equal to 0.50, preferably between 0.5 and 0.8, limits included, b a + b + c is less than 0.50, preferably between 0.1 and 0.4, limits included, c a + b + c is between 0.01 and 0.20, preferably between 0.02 and 0.15, limits included, all of the ratios having a sum equal to 1.

Abstract: The invention relates to a water-soluble polymer, for the enhanced recovery of hydrocarbons, of formula (I) wherein R is a hydrogen atom or an alkaline metal element R? is a hydrogen atom or a methyl radical the coefficients a, b and c are defined in the following way: a/(a+b+c) is greater than or equal to 0.50, b/(a+b+c) is between 0 and 0.50, limits included, c/(a+b+c) is between 0.001 and 0.20, limits included, all of the ratios a/(a+b+c), b/(a+b+c) and c/(a+b+c) have a sum equal to 1. The invention also relates to the process for preparing said polymer, and to the use thereof for enhanced hydrocarbon recovery.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for treating an aqueous solution comprising at least an oil phase dispersed as drops in an aqueous phase, the oil being petroleum crude oil. According to the invention, at least the following steps are carried out: adding at least a tetravalent salt to the aqueous solution at a predetermined concentration, then separating by flotation the oil phase from the aqueous phase present in the aqueous solution to which at least the tetravalent salt has been added. Application in particular to the treatment of a produced water or a produced effluent of petroleum origin.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for treating an aqueous liquid comprising oil droplets and a surfactant and/or a base. For this method, a pore size threshold of a filter is determined taking into account the interfacial tension between the oil droplets and the water, and a filter is selected whose pore size is less than or equal to this threshold for filtration of the aqueous liquid.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for treating an aqueous liquid comprising oil droplets and a surfactant and/or a base. For this method, a pore size threshold of a filter is determined taking into account the interfacial tension between the oil droplets and the water, and a filter is selected whose pore size is less than or equal to this threshold for filtration of the aqueous liquid.

Abstract: An enhanced recovery method that optimizes the stages of pumping, transport and surface treatment of the production effluent, during which a sweep fluid having at least one polymer so as to displace hydrocarbons towards a production well is injected into a reservoir, the resulting production effluent having hydrocarbons is collected through the production well, and a degradation agent for a polymer within the sweep fluid is injected into the effluent.

Abstract: The invention relates to an improved enhanced recovery method using polymers, wherein these polymers are preserved from mechanical degradation by adding an additive comprising sacrificial compounds. The sacrificial compounds are preferentially degraded instead of the active polymers, thus allowing optimized recovery of the oil in the petroleum reservoir. The sacrificial compounds can be polymers of same nature as the active polymers, but of higher molecular weight, or polymers of different nature having more fragile bonds. The sacrificial compound(s) is/are selected according to a lesser resistance to mechanical degradation, in comparison with the active polymers of the solution allowing enhanced recovery.

Abstract: The invention relates to an enhancing oil recovery method by injecting into a subterranean oil formation an aqueous flooding fluid comprising at least one injecting galactomannan polymer substituted by at least one sulfonation agent. The invention also relates to an flooding fluid having better injectivity properties than existing flooding fluids.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a drilling fluid composition comprising:—at least one (per)fluoropolyether oil comprising recurring units of formula —CF(CF3)CF2O— said oil having a kinematic viscosity of 30 to 80 cSt measured according to ASTM D455 standard at 20° C. [oil (E)] and possessing a polydispersity index (PDI) of at least 1.15; and—at least one (per)fluoropolyether phosphate comprising at least one perfluoropolyoxyalkylenic chain and at least one phosphoric acid group, in its acid, amide, salt or ester form [phosphate (P)], to a method for its manufacture and to its use in a drilling rig equipment.

Abstract: The invention relates to an enhanced recovery method that optimizes the stages of pumping, transport and surface treatment of the production effluent. The method of the invention comprises the following stages: injecting into said reservoir (1) a sweep fluid comprising at least one polymer so as to displace said hydrocarbons towards at least one production well (4), collecting a production effluent comprising the hydrocarbons through production well (4), injecting into said effluent at least one degradation agent for said polymer.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for treating viscous hydrocarbon containing asphaltenes, which consists in performing the following steps: precipitating at least part of the asphaltenes by adding into the hydrocarbon an appropriate solvent; adding into the hydrocarbon polymerization products adapted to encapsulate the precipitated asphaltenes to inert same.

Abstract: The invention relates to an enhancing oil recovery method by injecting into a subterranean oil formation an aqueous flooding fluid comprising at least one injecting galactomannan polymer substituted by at least one sulfonation agent. The invention also relates to an flooding fluid having better injectivity properties than existing flooding fluids.

Abstract: Heavy crude transportation optimization method wherein at least one solvent is added to said crude. According to the method, a predetermined amount of dimethyl ether (DME) is added under pressure so as to adjust the viscosity of the crude.

Abstract: Heavy crude transportation optimization method wherein at least one solvent consisting of a petroleum cut is added to said crude. According to the method, the polar component ?p of the Hildebrand parameter of the solvent is increased, and the contribution of hydrogen bond ?h of the Hildebrand parameter of the solvent is controlled, by adding a predetermined amount of at least one specific additive.

Abstract: An emulsion is optimized in that it is stabilized by the presence of a surfactant specifically selected according to the type of a polymer, or copolymer, also present in the emulsion. The surfactant and the polymer are selected oppositely charged.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of estimating the flow restart conditions of a paraffinic hydrocarbon in a pipe, wherein the following stages are carried out: selecting a theological model, determining the temperature and shear stress fields in the steady hydrocarbon flow, evaluating the conductive thermal exchanges during circulation standstill phases, from the steady flow temperatures and the standstill time taken into account, selecting various sections of the pipe and recording the thermomechanical scenarios undergone by the hydrocarbon in these sections, experimentally measuring the rheological parameters of the model on a sample of the hydrocarbon, according to each one of said scenarios, and taking into account these experimental measurements to evaluate the value of the pressure that restarts circulation of the paraffinic hydrocarbon in the pipe.

Abstract: Heavy crude transportation optimization method wherein at least one solvent is added to said crude. According to the method, a predetermined amount of dimethyl ether (DME) is added under pressure so as to adjust the viscosity of the crude.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a stable emulsion of an immiscible fluid and of an aqueous phase having a determined pH value. The emulsion is optimized in that it comprises an ionic surfactant and a polyampholytic polymer whose charge depends on the pH value. The respective amounts of surfactant and of polymers are determined according to the charges. Stabilization or destabilization of the emulsion is adjusted by controlling the pH value. The invention also relates to a method of stabilizing and destabilizing an emulsion comprising a surfactant combined with an ampholytic polymer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of breaking an oil-in-water emulsion, the oil essentially consisting of a heavy hydrocarbon, i.e. having a viscosity above approximately 100 centipoise at ambient temperature. According to the invention, at least one solvent defined by: a polar coefficient according to the Hansen classification above 5, a “hydrogen” coefficient according to the Hansen classification below 16, is added to the emulsion.