Troubleshooting nitrate field injections for control of reservoir souring

Proceedings - SPE International Symposium on Oilfield Chemistry

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages 522-533

  Jack, T R ^a   Grigoryan, A ^a   Lambo, A ^a   Voordouw, G ^a   Granli, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Yara International ASA   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH TEMPERATURE OPERATIONS; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; NITRATES; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; OIL FIELD DEVELOPMENT; OILFIELD CHEMISTRY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TEMPERATURE; WATER RECYCLING;

CONTROL TREATMENTS; FIELD INJECTION; INJECTION WATER; LOW TEMPERATURES; MICROBIAL PRODUCTION; OIL RESERVOIRS; ONSHORE FIELDS; TERM FIELD;

HYDROGEN SULFIDE REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT);

EID: 70449623536     PISSN: 10461779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/121573-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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