Oilfield Chemicals Market Trends
Oilfield chemicals refer to a kind of additives used in the process of oil and gas drilling, production and transportation, water quality treatment and EOR.It has a wide variety.Most of them are water-soluble polymers and surfactants. For example, vegetable gum, polyacrylamide, cellulose and biopolymer, petroleum sulfonate, alcohol or alkyl phenol ethoxy ether.
The main contents of oilfield chemistry research are preparation, performance evaluation (including basic theory), screening formula, construction design and scene test.The properties of crude oil, water quality and rock vary with different reservoir conditions.The chemicals (formulations) used are highly targeted.In order to develop and reasonably use oilfield chemicals, various subject knowledge is needed.Such as organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry, chemical engineering, analytical chemistry, fluid mechanics, reservoir engineering and computational mathematics.Oilfield chemistry has gradually become a new frontier edge science. More and more attention has been paid to it.
With the development of petroleum industry,drag reducing agents, the consumption of oilfield chemicals is increasing.Its use has increased by 52% over the past decade.Value increased by 96.1%.There are more than 70 categories and more than 3000 varieties of oilfield chemicals.North America is the area that consumes more oilfield chemicals in the world, accounting for about half of the total.Among them, the United States is the largest consumer in the region.The annual consumption of chemicals for oil recovery in the world is 4.5 million tons, worth US $3.7 billion.It accounts for 13% of the total amount of oilfield chemicals.According to the statistics of 120 companies in the world, there are 988 kinds of chemicals used in oil production.
Since the 1970s, great achievements have been made in the research, development and application of oilfield chemicals in China.It plays an important role in petroleum exploration and development.It has reached a considerable level in variety, quantity and quality.According to statistics, the annual consumption of petrochemical products in China is 1.2 million tons.Among them, 350000 tons are fine chemicals.It is estimated that the consumption of oilfield chemicals in China will increase at an average annual rate of 10%.The number of varieties has reached more than 300.Drilling mud material is a large amount of oilfield chemicals.They account for about 45% – 50% of the total oilfield chemicals used.Value accounts for more than 60%.The amount of chemicals used for oil recovery accounts for 13% of the total consumption due to the high technical requirements.These two categories occupy an important position in oilfield chemicals.
Over the past decade, Chinas oilfield chemicals technology has developed rapidly.It has formed a wide market for oilfield chemicals.According to incomplete statistics, the domestic oil field chemical consumption in 1995 was 1.029 million tons.By 2009, the total amount of the whole industry has reached 1.47 million tons.Over the past 15 years, the consumption of oilfield chemicals has increased by more than 42%, and the market scale has increased by more than 180%.Among them, the amount of drilling chemicals is large. It accounts for 45% – 50% of the total amount of oilfield chemicals.The reserves of newly discovered oilfields in China are limited and the task of tapping the potential of old oilfields is arduous.Especially for the characteristics of oil fields in China.Strengthen oil field exploration and development, improve oil recovery and strengthen environmental protection.This requires more new, efficient and pollution reducing oilfield chemicals.