Many crystallization processes of great importance, including frost heave, biomineralization,
the synthesis of nanomaterials, and scale formation, occur in small volumes rather than bulk …

In oil and gas industry operations, scale deposition on the surface and subsurface
production equipment can cause different problems such as formation damage, loss in …

Water flooding is one of the important methods for developing ultralow permeability
reservoirs. However, due to the high clay mineral content in these reservoirs and poor …

Deposition of inorganic salts such as calcium carbonate (CaCO 3) can cause formation
damage and production equipment failure during the development of a reservoir. In case of …

Abstract Calcium carbonate (CaCO 3) precipitation, due to incompatibility between the
injected water (IW) and formation water (FW), is known to be a major operational obstacle …

Seawater injection is an efficient enhanced oil recovery (EOR) method that capitalizes on
the chemical composition differences between the injecting seawater and in-situ formation …

Objectives: To review current and potential methods to identify scale, either wax, inorganic
or corrosion deposits on the internal side of pipelines. Methods/Statistical Analysis: The …

A common problem that faces the oil and gas industry is the formation of iron sulfide scale in
various stages of production. Recently an effective chemical formulation was proposed to …

Visualization experiments using one-dimensional (1-D) porous media made of Plexiglas
and two-dimensional glass porous networks were conducted to obtain qualitative and …

Water injection to reservoirs for recovery increase is a common enhanced oil recovery
method in petroleum industry. Water injection might give a negative result due to scale …