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

• Main Authors: Merdhah, Amer Badr, Mohd. Yassin, Abu Azam, Ahmed Muherei, Mazen
• Format: Article
• Published: Elsevier B.V. 2010
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/26292/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.petrol.2009.10.001
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Scale formation in surface and subsurface oil and gas production equipment has been recognized to be a major operational problem. It has been also recognized as major causes of formation damage either in injection or producing wells. This study was conducted to investigate the permeability reduction...