Faculty of Engineering

Chemical Engineering Department

Water Injection
“Scale Predictions;
Mathematical Models”
This Project is submitted to the faculty of Engineering in partial
fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of
Science (B.Sc.) in Chemical Engineering

2022
 ABSTRACT

This project presents the basic concept and definition of the water injection (scale problems)
which may occur in oil wells for Zenad reservoir in the Ghani field. One of the petroleum
encountered in waterflooding projects is scale formation caused by chemical water
compatibility between potential injection waters and reservoir brine. Chemical compatibility
evaluation through laboratory experiments on cores at reservoir conditions is of limited
value because only first contact phenomena are reproduced.

This study is aimed to calculate the tendency of mineral scale formation, how to minimize it,
and describing the techniques used to detect and assess the scale. The wells that produced
for long period are selected to consider in this study (VVV-01, VVV-07, VVV-15, and AAAA1)
and take their analysis and applying a reliable method to determine the stability index (SI).
Therefore, all the data will be sufficient to give a good and reliable study. After that all that,
we make a mixing between injection wells and produced wells at different mixing rate, to
find out the best mixing ratio. Chemical treatment is strongly recommended in order to
prevent or delay scale formation. Continuous scale inhibitor injection method is the most
method applied in downstream section, while scale inhibitor squeeze treatment is the only
sufficient technique.
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