Spectroscopic determination of naphthenic acid composition from various calcium naphthenates field deposits

Proceedings - SPE International Symposium on Oilfield Chemistry

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 595-604

  Ahmed, Mohammed Murtala ^a   Sorbie, K S ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APCI-MS; CALCIUM NAPHTHENATES; FLOW ASSURANCE; NAPHTHENIC ACID; NORTH SEA; OIL PRODUCTION; PRODUCTION OPERATIONS; RE-PRECIPITATION; SODIUM NAPHTHENATE; SOLID DEPOSITS; SPECTROSCOPIC TECHNIQUE; SYNTHETIC BRINE; TOTAL ACID NUMBER;

CALCIUM; DEPOSITS; EMULSIFICATION; EXPERIMENTS; LEAD DEPOSITS; METAL RECOVERY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OIL FIELDS; ORGANIC ACIDS; SODIUM DEPOSITS;

CALCIUM ALLOYS;

EID: 70449629687     PISSN: 10461779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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