Oxygen-reduced
air flooding (ORAF) can effectively improve oil recovery in low-permeability
reservoirs, but oxygen corrosion and CO2 corrosion in downstream
gathering pipelines are inevitable due to the existence of oxygen,
which limits the popularization and application of ORAF. In this paper,
research on the corrosion inhibitor is carried out for the gathering
pipeline of an oilfield with ORAF in China. Under the conditions of
a simulated onsite gathering pipeline, 6 kinds of anti-CO2 corrosion inhibitors and 6 kinds of antioxygen corrosion inhibitors
were selected to evaluate and screen the effects of 20# steel by the
dynamic weight loss method. Two antioxygen corrosion inhibitors KY-12
and KY-17 and one anti-CO2 corrosion inhibitor A were selected
for the experiment. The corrosion inhibition rates of the three inhibitors
reached 83.67, 91.49, and 78.44%, respectively, at a temperature of
40 °C and an inhibitor concentration of 1000 mg/L. Through the
experimental evaluation of three primary corrosion inhibitors at different
temperatures (25, 40, and 55 °C) and different concentrations
(400, 500, 800, 1000, and 2000 mg/L), the KY-17 corrosion inhibitor
with the best stability at different temperatures was selected, and
the corrosion inhibition effect was the best at different concentrations,
with the highest slow release rate reaching 92.7%. This conclusion
has a good reference significance for the selection and dosage of
corrosion inhibitors for downstream gathering pipelines of the ORAF
oilfield.