Monitoring and control of bacterial biofilms in oilfield water handling systems

NACE Meeting Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Maxwell, Stephen ^a   Devine, Carol ^b   Rooney, Fiona ^b   Spark, Iain ^b  

^a Commercial Microbiology Inc ^*  (United States)

^b Kettock Lodge ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corrosion; Hydrogen sulfide; Monitoring; Nitrate reducing bacteria; Souring; Sulfate reducing Bacteria; Water injection

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646208768     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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