Training Course Day 2
This training course introduce inorganic scale management to those working in the energy sector who need to be involved in identifying and managing scale risk, or who need to be aware of its implications to production/operations. The authors and contributing colleagues from their respective organisations have a wealth of industrial and research experience of scale management in the oil and gas industry, and the course is richly illustrated using field case examples.
The course extends this knowledge to non-hydrocarbon related aspects of the energy sector. It is therefore useful to those wishing to learn about oil and gas field scaling, as also to those engaging with the Energy Transition who wish to understand what are the potential inorganic scale risks and how these can be mitigated.
Held in conjunction with the SPE Scale Symposium during 18 & 19 May 2026 - Ardoe, Scotland
Delivered by PCT and HWU
- Subsurface batch treatment qualification
- Coreflood formation damage and inhibitor retention testing
- Inhibitor isotherm derivation
- Subsurface batch treatment design
- Squeeze design
- Inhibitor placement
- Impact of reservoir processes
- Scale management in the Energy Transition (I)
- During Enhanced Oil Recovery
- Geothermal brine production and disposal
- Scale management in the Energy Transition (II)
- Halite precipitation during Carbon Capture and Storage
- Novel applications, including well Plugging and Abandonment (P&A) operations
Instructors
Steve Heath, Production Chemistry Training Ltd (PCT)
Professor Eric Mackay holds the Energy Simulation Chair in CCUS and Reactive Flow Simulation in the Institute of GeoEnergy Engineering at Heriot-Watt University