Oilfield scale removal by chelating agents: An aminopolycarboxylic acids review

SPE Western Regional Meeting Proceedings

Volumn 2017-April, Issue , 2017, Pages 1053-1065

  Almubarak, Tariq ^a   Ng, Jun Hong ^a   Nasr El Din, Hisham ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2118/185636-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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