Managing Scale and Asphaltene Challenges in Mature Oil & Gas Fields
9-12 February 2009
Beach Rotana Hotel
Abu Dhabi, U.A.E
Scale and asphaltene deposits represent some of the most significant production and well integrity challenges in Middle East and international oil and gas production. Scale is a mineral deposit that can occur in the tubing, the artificial lift system, completion accessories, the perforations or the formation. Scale depositions occur when solution equilibrium of the water is disturbed by pressure and temperature changes, dissolved gases or incompatibility between mixing waters. Scale deposits are the most common and most troublesome damage problems in the oil field and can occur in both production and injection wells. Asphaltenes are large complex organic components present in the oil phase which agglomerate and deposit when conditions exist during production that destabilize their associated resins.
Both lead to significant production decline if untreated. The workshop will discuss inorganic (scale) and organic (asphaltene) deposits with international experts sharing their experiences and best practices.
The workshop will focus on the deposit management system in terms of:
- Case histories and challenges in the Middle East
- Origin and mechanisms of deposition
- Predictive tools and techniques
- Prevention of deposition
- Removal of deposition
- Environmental and safety challenges
- Monitoring and analysis
Who Should Attend
The intended audience of this Applied Technology Workshop (ATW) is well iIntegrity management engineers, production engineers, petroleum engineers, reservoir engineers, scale and asphaltene specialists, chemists, asset teams leads and managers.