Injection of seawater and mixtures with produced water into North Sea chalk formation: Impact on wettability, scale formation, and rock mechanics caused by fluid-rock interaction

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE/EAGE Reservoir Characterization and Simulation Conference 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 102-113

  Puntervold, Tina ^a   Austad, Tor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Chalk; Precipitation; Scale; Water flooding

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; COMPACTION; LIMESTONE; MIXTURES; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PRODUCED WATER; ROCK MECHANICS; STRONTIUM COMPOUNDS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TEMPERATURE; WATER INJECTION; WETTING;

CA 2+; CHALK; FLOODINGS; FLUID-ROCK INTERACTION; FORMATION WATER; MATRIX; NORTH SEA; SCALE; SCALE FORMATION; WATER FLOODING;

CALCITE;

EID: 58149514055     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/111237-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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