Fosfomycin and Its Derivatives: New Scale Inhibitors for Oilfield Applications

• Published in: ACS Omega
• Main Authors: Mady, Mohamed F., Ortega, Rocio
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: American Chemical Society 2022
• Subjects: Heidrun; Norway; Norwegian Sea
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8973091/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35382314; https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.2c00429

[Image: see text] Aminomethylenephosphonate-based scale inhibitors (SIs) have been widely studied and recognized for several decades to mitigate various oilfield scales. However, most of these compounds afforded several drawbacks, such as poor biodegradability and intolerance with the production sys...