Formation of petroleum organic deposits on steel surfaces

A. Cosultchi, A. García-Bórquez, J. Aguilar-Hernandez, H. Yee-Madeira, E. Reguera, V. H. Lara, P. Bosch

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Abstract

An adhered organic deposit, formed within the petroleum well on the steel surface of the tubing walls, was systematically characterized following a sequence of bulk and surface techniques. The results allowed the identification of the tubing wall and its internal surface structures. As a consequence of the contact with sulphur-bearing compounds such as H2S and brine from petroleum, the pre-oxidized steel surface was modified by non-stoichiometric iron compound formation. These new iron phase favour adsorption and chemisorption of the petroleum polar compounds on the steel surface.

Translated title of the contributionFormación de depósitos orgánicos de petróleo en superficies de acero.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)384-388
Number of pages5
JournalSurface and Interface Analysis
Volume34
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2002
EventECASIA'01 Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Applications of Suface and Interface Analysis - Avignon, France
Duration: 30 Sep 20015 Oct 2001

Keywords

  • AES
  • Adherence
  • Carbon steel surface
  • FTIR
  • Mössbauer
  • Petroleum well
  • Raman
  • SEM-EDS
  • Spectroscopy
  • XRD

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