Selection and Application of Scale Inhibitor for Application in Oxygenated Produced Water, Norwegian Sector, North Sea
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Scale control within produced fluids both topside and downhole in oil/gas production facilities is critical to the effective production of hydrocarbons in a safe, economic and environmentally acceptable manner. This paper will focus on the scale challenges associated with production of produced water that contains significant amounts of barium, sulphate and dissolved iron ions. While this challenge is not unusual in production operations the presence of dissolved oxygen in the topside process just prior to discharge has resulted in a very challenging environment for barium sulphate scale inhibition. This paper will outline the challenge of scale control in the presence of ferrous and ferric ion. The inhibitor selection program undertaken will be outlined as well as the critical factors that had to be taken into account given this application was for offshore Norway where environmental characteristics of production chemicals can restrict the choices of chemical suitable for this application. The development of an application strategy for the selected environmentally acceptable chemical will be outlined along with the monitoring program to ensure not only that the chemical is applied at the correct treatment rate but that it performs as expected from the laboratory performance testing results and can be optimised as brine composition changes with time.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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