Injection of seawater and mixtures with produced water into North Sea chalk formation: Impact of fluid-rock interactions on wettability and scale formation

Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

Volumn 63, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 23-33

  Puntervold, Tina ^a   Austad, Tor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

chalk; precipitation; scale; water flooding

Indexed keywords

CHALK; CHALK RESERVOIRS; CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUMS; DIVALENT CATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL REASONS; FORMATION WATERS; HIGH TEMPERATURES; INJECTION FLUIDS; IRREVERSIBLE THERMODYNAMICS; MECHANICAL STRENGTHS; MODEL STUDIES; NORTH SEAS; OIL RECOVERIES; PRECIPITATION; PRODUCED WATERS; RESERVOIR TEMPERATURES; ROCK INTERACTIONS; SCALE; SCALE FORMATIONS;

BARIUM; CALCIUM; COMPACTION; DISSOLUTION; FLOW INTERACTIONS; IMPACT STRENGTH; MAGNESIUM PRINTING PLATES; MIXTURES; OIL WELL PRODUCTION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SCALE (DEPOSITS); SEAWATER; SEAWATER EFFECTS;

WATER INJECTION;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CHALK; DISSOLUTION; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; FLOODING; FLUID INJECTION; FORMATION WATER; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; RESEARCH WORK; SEAWATER; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER FLOW; WATER-ROCK INTERACTION; WETTABILITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 56949108396     PISSN: 09204105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.petrol.2008.07.010     Document Type: Article

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