A study of formation damage of selective clay and other minerals caused by bacterial plugging

SPE Drilling and Completion

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 160-167

  Hayatdavoudi, Asadollah ^a,b,c   Ghalambor, Ali ^b,d,e  

^a Atlas Wireline Services

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SPE Evangeline Section

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CLAY MINERALS; DENSITY MEASUREMENT (OPTICAL); ELECTROPHORESIS; GROWTH KINETICS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MECHANICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; OIL WELL DRILLING; POROUS MATERIALS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BACTERIAL PLUGGING; DARCY EQUATION; FORMATION DAMAGE; MICROELECTROPHORES; MINERAL BACTERIA INTERACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; ZETA POTENTIAL;

OIL BEARING FORMATIONS;

EID: 0030246460     PISSN: 10646671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/27006-PA     Document Type: Article

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