Understanding trends in sulphate concentrations in produced water within oilfields under seawater flood and with calcium-rich formation water

Society of Petroleum Engineers - 9th International Conference on Oilfield Scale 2008 - "Managing Scale Through the Field Lifetime"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 111-122

  Wright, R ^a,b   McCartney, R A ^a,c   Sorhaug E ^a,d  

^a Atlas Wireline Services

^b Talisman Energy (UK) Limited

^c Geo Science Limited

^d Talisman Energy   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLING FACTORS; FORMATION WATER; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; PRODUCED WATER; SEAWATER FLOOD; SOCIETY OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERS; SULPHATE;

CALCIUM; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); MINERALS; SCALE (DEPOSITS); SEAWATER;

OIL FIELDS;

EID: 53349096243     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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