Help with geology

[ramminghard]

I have an essay due on acidizing in the oil and gas industry tomorrow. I need to find some journal articles on it. Anyone know where i can find real journal articles. I allready went to the Mt. royal library and they had nothing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[davidI]

University library?

[ramminghard]

seems like the only place.

[Ducati]

acidizing
1. n. [Well Testing] ID: 7986
The pumping of acid into the wellbore to remove near-well formation damage and other damaging substances. This procedure commonly enhances production by increasing the effective well radius. When performed at pressures above the pressure required to fracture the formation, the procedure is often referred to as acid fracturing.
http://www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com/Display.cfm?Term=acidizing


fracture acidizing
1. n. [Production Enhancement] ID: 11044
A well-stimulation operation in which acid, usually hydrochloric [HCl], is injected into a carbonate formation at a pressure above the formation-fracturing pressure. Flowing acid tends to etch the fracture faces in a nonuniform pattern, forming conductive channels that remain open without a propping agent after the fracture closes.The length of the etched fracture limits the effectiveness of an acid-fracture treatment. The fracture length depends on acid leakoff and acid spending. If acid fluid-loss characteristics are poor, excessive leakoff will terminate fracture extension. Similarly, if the acid spends too rapidly, the etched portion of the fracture will be too short. The major problem in fracture acidizing is the development of wormholes in the fracture face; these wormholes increase the reactive surface area and cause excessive leakoff and rapid spending of the acid. To some extent, this problem can be overcome by using inert fluid-loss additives to bridge wormholes or by using viscosified acids. Fracture acidizing is also called acid fracturing or acid-fracture treatment. See: hydraulic fracturing, matrix stimulation

http://www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com/Display.cfm?Term=fracture%20acidizing

http://www.worldoil.com/INFOCENTER/STATISTICS_MAIN.ASP?A=TABLETOSUBTABLE&TABLEID=1

http://www.worldoil.com/TechTables/Acidizing_Desc.asp

http://www.cleansorb.com/page12.html



are these links helpful?

[ramminghard]

I ended up using most of those for my essay. I actaually just got out of my final so i am done the class now. Thanks for finding them though.

[CSMRX7]

I know this is late, but any oilfield based research is really easy on SPE.com

If you check out the papers you should find a lot.

I know that from my department alone we publish atleast 50 a year.