Reactive transport modeling of injection well scaling and acidizing at Tiwi field, Philippines

Geothermics

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 477-491

  Xu, Tianfu ^a   Ontoy, Yvette ^b   Molling, Phil ^c   Spycher, Nicolas ^a   Parini, Mauro ^c   Pruess, Karsten ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Unocal Philippines Inc   (Philippines)

^c CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brine injection; Injectivity loss; Modeling; Philippines; Reactive transport; Silica scaling; Tiwi

Indexed keywords

ACIDIZATION; BOREHOLES; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); POROSITY; SILICA;

BRINE CHEMISTRY; WELLBORES;

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY;

BRINE; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; WELL TECHNOLOGY;

ASIA; EURASIA; PHILIPPINES; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 3042653366     PISSN: 03756505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geothermics.2003.09.012     Document Type: Article

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