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Modelling Oilfield Scale Squeeze Treatments

From Core to Reservoir

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  • Details the steps involved in designing a squeeze treatment for a real-world field case
  • Enables the reader to identify the optimal and most cost-effective treatment design for a given set of criteria
  • Blends concepts from a variety of disciplines

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Petroleum Geoscience & Engineering (BRIEFSPGE)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Introduction

    • Oscar Vazquez
    Pages 1-6
  3. Scale Management

    • Oscar Vazquez
    Pages 7-34
  4. Scale Inhibitors

    • Oscar Vazquez
    Pages 35-55
  5. Scale Inhibitor Squeeze Treatments

    • Oscar Vazquez
    Pages 57-71
  6. Life Cycle of a Field Squeeze Treatment

    • Oscar Vazquez
    Pages 83-101
  7. Reservoir Scale Management

    • Oscar Vazquez
    Pages 103-115

About this book

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to scale management. Starting with an introduction to oilfield scale, including material on predicting the problem and evaluating treatment options, it then discusses various management and inhibition techniques before presenting squeeze treatments.

In turn, it explores the automatic optimization of squeeze designs, the use of tracers to estimate scale inhibitor placement, and the mathematics of transport and adsorption in squeeze treatments, while also describing the treatment lifecycle in detail. Further, it presents all the steps involved in designing a cost-effective squeeze treatment for a real-world field case.

Given its scope, the book will be of interest to researchers in the field of petroleum engineering, especially those specializing in flow assurance, transport in porous media, or the modelling and optimization of scale treatment designs. It also offers a valuable resource for engineers working in the oil industry, and for service companies providing scale management 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Edinburgh, UK

    Oscar Vazquez

About the author

Oscar Vazquez has been an Assistant Professor at Heriot-Watt University since 2006. He has been working on modelling squeeze treatments, from core to reservoir scale, for the last 10 years, and has published more than forty research papers on the subject. In addition, he has contributed more than twenty technical reports and more than fifty technical consultancy reports to a major Joint Industrial Project.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Modelling Oilfield Scale Squeeze Treatments

  • Book Subtitle: From Core to Reservoir

  • Authors: Oscar Vazquez

  • Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Petroleum Geoscience & Engineering

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71852-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-71851-4Published: 19 January 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71852-1Published: 18 January 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2509-3126

  • Series E-ISSN: 2509-3134

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 133

  • Number of Illustrations: 49 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture), Offshore Engineering

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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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