What will you learn :
- Water chemistry in oil and gas fields
- Cost of scale formation in oil and gas fields
- Scale formation mechanism
- Scale types : carbonate scale, sulfate scale, iron compounds, sulfide scale, halite, silicate, phosphate, elemental sulfur, sand and fines.
- Factors affecting the formation of scale
- Scale prediction : theory , common commercial software types, and their application.
- Scale deposits analysis
- Scale deposits detection and monitoring
- Scale management
- Operational methods of scale management
- Chemical methods of scale management : scale inhibitors , their application in the field.
- Non-chemical methods of scale management
- Scale removal : chemical and non-chemical methods.
- Step by step how to build scale management strategy
- Case studies
Who should attend ?
- Account managers
- Production chemists
- Oilfield microbiologists
- Production engineers
- Production technicians
- Reservoir engineers
- Students and new graduates : chemical engineering, petroleum engineering, chemistry , biochemistry and geochemistry