The formation of scale during oil production is a world-wide problem, causing considerable production losses and costing hundreds of millions of dollars in remediation and prevention procedures every year. Most of the scale occurring in oil fields forms either by direct precipitation from the water that occurs naturally in reservoir rocks or as a result of chemical incompatability between the original reservoir formation water and injected seawater. Scale inhibition efficiency is determined in bulk jar tests in order to determine a minimum inhibitor concentration (MIC) which gives some acceptable level of inhibition (say 95 %). However, this test refers principally to the bulk precipitation of barium mineral scale from solution, rather than its deposition on a surface. The complementary tube blocking test gives some insight into scale adhesion at a surface, but this is a very short residence time test. An experimental study has been conducted to examine the interactions between surface and bulk BaSO4 scaling processes in uninhibited and inhibited supersaturated brines. In the study, precipitation both in bulk and onto a Hastelloy metal surface has been studied in longer term bulk jar tests at various temperatures. It is demonstrated that the use of PPCA at concentrations beneath the MIC level, as determined by bulk jar tests, can promote surface scaling. This comes about as a result of complex interactions between bulk precipitation and surface scaling processes and these are discussed in this paper.


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    Title :

    Inhibition of BaSO4 at a hastelloy metal surface and in solution: The consequences of falling below the minimum inhibitor concentration (MIC)


    Additional title:

    Inhibition von BaSO4 auf einer Hastelloy-Oberfläche und in Lösung: Die Auswirkungen der Unterschreitung der Minimalen Inhibitorkonzentration (MIC)


    Contributors:
    Graham, A.L. (author) / Neville, A. (author) / Vieille, E. (author)


    Publication date :

    2004


    Size :

    7 Seiten, 6 Bilder, 27 Quellen


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Storage medium


    Language :

    English




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