Microbial Corrosion of Polymer Flooding Oil Gathering/Transportation Pipeline

doi:10.11902/1005.4537.2024.404

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Microbial Corrosion of Polymer Flooding Oil Gathering/Transportation Pipeline

ZHANG Weizhi¹^,²^,³, FENG Siqiao⁴, SONG Xiaopeng⁵, LIU Aihua⁵, TANG Dezhi⁶, YAN Maocheng¹(

), HAN En-Hou⁷

1 Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
2 School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
3 Oil and Gas and New Energy Branch of China National Petroleum Corporation, Beijing 100007, China
4 Daqing Oilfield Design Institute Co., Ltd., Daqing 163712, China
5 Shandong Zhiben Safety Technology Co., Ltd., Jinan 250101, China
6 China National Petroleum Corporation Planning Institute, Beijing 100007, China
7 Institute of Corrosion Science and Technology, Guangzhou 250101, China

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ZHANG Weizhi, FENG Siqiao, SONG Xiaopeng, LIU Aihua, TANG Dezhi, YAN Maocheng, HAN En-Hou. Microbial Corrosion of Polymer Flooding Oil Gathering/Transportation Pipeline. Journal of Chinese Society for Corrosion and protection, 2025, 45(4): 1098-1106.

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Abstract

Regarding the microbial corrosion issue in polymer flooding pipelines for oil fields, the corrosion behavior and patterns of pipeline steel in a polymer flooding environment containing anaerobic sulfate reducing bacteria (SRB) and aerobic iron bacteria (IOB) were assessed by means of electrochemical measurement, and characterization in surface morphology, composition and phase constutients of corrsion products. The results indicate that both SRB and IOB attend to adhere and grow on the surface of pipeline steel in polymer flooding media, and a loose microbial film can be seen on the steel surface, significantly affecting the corrosion electrochemical process of pipeline steel. In the early stage of biofilm growth in SRB and IOB environments, open circuit potential of the steel increased about 20 mV, indicating the physical barrier effect of extracellular polymeric EPS on electrochemical processes. The corrosion rate in IOB environment is relatively low, and the corrosion current density significantly increases in SRB and SRB/IOB environments. In the coexistence environment of SRB and IOB, IOB consumes dissolved oxygen to create an anaerobic environment for SRB, which is conducive to the growth of fixed SRB, thereby promoting cathodic and anodic reactions, transforming the corrosion form from non-uniform corrosion to localized corrosion, and forming corrosion pits with peculiar characteristics.

Key words: gathering pipeline microbial corrosion sulfate reducing bacteria iron oxide bacteria polymer flooding

Received: 22 December 2024 32134.14.1005.4537.2024.404

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Fund: National Natural Science Foundation of China(51471176)

Corresponding Authors: YAN Maocheng, E-mail: yanmc@imr.ac.cn

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Table 1 Experiment conditions of temperature and microbial medium

Fig.1 Surface morphologies of 20 # steel after 14 d immersion in polymer flooding oil gathering media: (a) SRB, (b) IOB, (c) SRB/IOB, (d) Control

Table 2 Surface chemical compositions of 20 # steel after 14 d immersion test in polymer flooding oil gathering media

Fig.2 Corrosion morphologies of 20# steel after 14 d immersion in polymer flooding oil gathering media: (a) SRB, (b) IOB, (c) SRB/IOB, (d) Control

Fig.3 Morphologies of pittings of 20# steel after 14 d immersion in the polymer oil gathering media: (a) SRB, (b) IOB, (c) SRB/IOB, (d) Control

Fig.4 Open-circuit potentials of 20# steel during immersion in the polymer flooding oil gathering media containing different microorganisms

Fig.5 Nyquist spectra (a1-d1), Bode spectra (a2-d2) and phase angle (a3-d3) of 20# steel in the polymer flooding oil gathering media containing SRB (a), IOB (b), SRB/IOB (c) and Control (d) microor-ganisms

Fig.6 Solution resistances (a) and polarization resistances (b) of 20# steel during immersion in the polymer flooding oil gathering media containing different microorganisms

Fig.7 Tafel plots of 20# steel after 14 d immersion in the polymer flooding oil gathering media containing different microorganisms

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