Processes determining the composition of produced water from subsea fields and implications for scale management – Birch Field, UKCS, paper SPE 94869 prepared for the SPE 7th International Symposium on Oilfield Scale, Aberdeen, Scotland, 11-12 May.
Publications
We perform internal research related to oilfield formation waters and produced waters as well as undertaking consultancy projects. To increase awareness of the benefits of using formation water and produced water analyses, we also have a policy of publishing both our internal and external work (with the agreement of our Clients). Our recent publications are:
McCartney R. A. and Østvold T. (2005)
Mass transfer of H2O between petroleum and water: Implications for oilfield water sample quality. Applied Geochemistry 20, 1518-1532.
McCartney R. A. and Rein E. (2005)
Formation waters of the Norwegian Continental Shelf, prepared for the 16th International Symposium on Oilfield Chemistry, Geilo, Norway, 13-16 March.
McCartney R. A., Winefield P., Webb P., and Kuhn O. (2004)
Spatial Variations in the Composition of Formation Waters from the Central North Sea – implications for fluid flow in the deep high-pressure high-temperature hydrocarbon play. In Understanding Petroleum reservoirs: Towards an Integrated Reservoir Engineering and Geochemical Approach, Vol. Special Publication 237 (ed. J. M. Cubitt, W. A. England, and S. Larter), pp. 283-303. Geological Society of London.
McCartney R. A. and Østvold T. (2004a)
Mass transfer of H2O between hydrocarbons and water: Implications for oilfield water sample quality, prepared for the 15th International Symposium on Oilfield Chemistry, Geilo, Norway, 28-31 March.
McCartney R. A. and Østvold T. (2004b)
Oilfield water sample quality: effect of H2O mass transfer between water and hydrocarbons, prepared for the 11th International Symposium on Water- Rock Interaction, 27 June-2 July.
McCartney R. A. and Solbé M. J. d. L. J. (1999)
Use of tracers in drilling muds to allow the estimation of in-situ formation water compositions from drilling-mud-contaminated formation water samples, paper SPE 50721 prepared for the SPE International Symposium on Oilfield Chemistry, Houston, Texas, U.S.A, 16-19 February.
