稠油管道输送技术方法综述

Review on Pipeline Technical Methods of Heavy Oil

我国稠油资源十分丰富,储量超过80亿t,开发这些稠油资源可以很好弥补我国常规石油资源的缺乏。目前,我国已在全国多个油田发现稠油区块,并已开始生产开发,随着对稠油资源开发的不断深入,对其相应的管输能力和效率提出了新要求,若想实现稠油的安全、稳定、经济输送,需要确定合理的稠油输送方法。介绍了几种不同稠油管输技术方法各自的原理和特点,并就采用每种方法的可行性进行了论述。

China has rich heavy oil resources, its reserve has over 8 billion tons; exploiting these resources can solve the lack problem of conventional petroleum resources. At present, China has found lots of heavy oil blocks among several national oil fields which have been exploited already. With exploitation and development of heavy oil, the pipeline capacity and efficiency of heavy oil need to be improved to meet the new requirements. To ensure safety, stability and economy of the pipeline transport, the reasonable transportation method is necessary. In this paper, theories and characteristics of several heavy oil pipeline transportation methods were respectively introduced, and the feasibility of each method were discussed.