Low-sulfate seawater injection into oil reservoir to avoid scaling problem

Journal of Applied Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1169-1178

  Merdhah, Amer Badr Bin ^a   Yassin, Abu Azam Mohd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

High barium; High salinity; Low sulfate seawater; Scaling problems; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BARIUM; BARIUM COMPOUNDS; CALCIUM; OIL FIELDS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SEAWATER; SOLUBILITY; STRONTIUM; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TEMPERATURE;

FORMATION WATER; HIGH SALINITY; INCREASING TEMPERATURES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; OIL RESERVOIRS; SCALING PROBLEM; SEAWATER INJECTION; SULFATE CONTENT;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 42149132878     PISSN: 18125654     EISSN: 18125662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2008.1169.1178     Document Type: Article

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