Laboratory determination of calcium carbonate scaling rates for oilfield wellbore environments

Society of Petroleum Engineers - International Symposium on Oilfield Scale 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Zhang, Yuping ^a   Farquhar, Rod ^a  

^a READ Well Services Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; FORECASTING; KINETICS; OIL WELLS; THERMODYNAMICS;

CALCIUM CARBONATE SCALING; CARBONATE SCALE; KINETIC COMPUTER MODELS; LABORATORY DETERMINATIONS; PREDICTIVE MODELING; PREDICTIVE TECHNIQUES; PRODUCTION PARAMETERS; SCALE PREDICTION;

CARBONATION;

EID: 85085408560     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/68329-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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