Formation Mineralogy Affects Scale-Inhibitor Squeeze Designs

摘要

Scale-inhibitor squeeze designs often are developed using short-core laboratory flow tests for estimating treatment life and fluid/rock compatibility. Laboratory tests provide a relatively high level of successful squeeze designs. However, occasionally, squeeze treatments cause unexpected production loss and have a short squeeze life. The full-length paper discusses how formation mineralogy can improve successful designs of squeeze treatments even before laboratory tests are conducted. A radial model was used to demonstrate key principles of optimizing treatments.