Abstract
Summary A specially formulated completion fluid, low-pH ammonium nitrate-methanol-water mixture (ANM), compatible with argillaceous and calcareous Adriatic Sea sandstone formations, appears to be very corrosive for steel wellbore equipment. More than 12 commercially available, as well as some originally formulated, chemical additives were laboratory tested at room temperature using weight-loss and electrochemical methods to find an effective corrosion inhibitor for ANM. Two inhibitors, a commercially available, organic, amine base (OA) and an originally formulated, inorganic, ammonium dihydrogen phosphate base (IB), showed effective protection of carbon steel in contact with ANM fluid (corrosion rate was less than 5 mil/yr). Both selected corrosion inhibitors did not exhibit any additional rock permeability impairment during fluid-rock compatibility flow tests if ANM fluid was filtered before injection into the core samples. For inorganic inhibitor IB, additional filtration of inhibited fluid is not required.
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