Laboratory and prediction of barium sulfate scaling at high-barium formation water

Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

Volumn 70, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 79-88

  BinMerdhah, Amer Badr ^a   Yassin, Abu Azam Mohd ^b   Muherei, Mazen Ahmed ^a  

^a HUST   (Yemen)

^b UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

concentration of barium ion; pressure; scale deposition; solubility of scale; temperature

Indexed keywords

BARIUM IONS; BARIUM SULFATE; CONCENTRATION OF; CONCENTRATION OF BARIUM ION; DIFFERENTIAL PRESSURES; FORMATION DAMAGE; FORMATION WATER; HIGH CONCENTRATION; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; INJECTION WATER; ION PRESSURES; OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION; OPERATIONAL PROBLEMS; PERMEABILITY DAMAGE; PERMEABILITY REDUCTION; POROUS MEDIA; ROCK PERMEABILITY; ROCK PORE; SANDSTONE CORES; SCALE DEPOSITION; SCALE FORMATION; SEM;

CAPILLARITY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DEPOSITION; IONS; OIL WELL DRILLING; POROUS MATERIALS; REACTION RATES; SANDSTONE; SCALE (DEPOSITS); SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEAWATER; SOLUBILITY; TERNARY SYSTEMS;

BARIUM;

BARIUM; BRINE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEPOSITION; FORMATION WATER; GAS PRODUCTION; LABORATORY METHOD; MORPHOLOGY; OIL PRODUCTION; P-T CONDITIONS; PARTICLE SIZE; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; PREDICTION; SALINITY; SANDSTONE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLUBILITY; SULFATE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 72549120061     PISSN: 09204105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.petrol.2009.10.001     Document Type: Article

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