Abstract
Barium sulfate (barite) is a major oil and gas field scale formed inside the production equipment as well as in the reservoir. During drilling of oil and gas wells, barite serves as a weighting material in different drilling fluid formulations. Barite solubility is very low in inorganic and organic acids. In this study, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA) chelating agent and a converter (K2CO3) are introduced to dissolve barite scale. Potassium carbonate was selected as a converter because it is cheap and available and has no environmental concerns. For the first time, the reaction kinetics of DTPA chelating agent and the converter with intact barite rock samples are investigated. Barite core samples were plugged from actual barite rock that is used to prepare the barite powder for the drilling fluid. The reaction kinetics of DTPA and the converter with barite rocks were studied by a rotating disk apparatus (RDA). The results of the RDA show a linear increase in the reaction rate with the disk rotat...
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