water flood problems

Buildup of scale and/or organic deposits in the near well bore region blocks pore channels, which decreases permeability and can severely restrict fluid flow into the formation.

Microbial metabolites such as surfactants, solvents and low molecular weight organic acids and gases are well known mobilizing agents. They work the same as traditional EOR chemicals to reduce interfacial tension, decrease oil viscosity and improve microscopic sweep efficiency of the water flood. The biosurfactants can also produce changes in wettability, increasing relative permeability and releasing more oil from rock.

Treating the producing oil wells in your waterflood with Chain Breaker to solve paraffin/scale/iron sulfides or other production issues also brings many secondary benefits:

1. Fluids coming out of separators contain considerably less oil, which goes to the production tank instead. As a result, filters run cleaner and longer.
2. The resulting downhole water will have better qualities.
3. Eliminate backflushing of injector wells due to plugging of solids (a large percentage of which are oil-coated iron sulfides).
4. Tank bottom emulsions and other problems slowly vanish.
5. ChainBreaker will start to change the downhole wettability of oil. Oil comes, while water stays in place. You get the true benefits of pressure maintenance.
6. ChainBreaker will make biogas or methane which adds additional primary drive to the formation, moving oil to the wellbore.
7. Chain Breaker then moves you into tertiary recovery for added tax breaks. In theory you will recover almost all of the non-intertitular oil in the rock. Microbes are the only recovery agent that can do that.