Myles Jordan

Myles M. Jordan

Subject Matter Expert ChampionX

Myles Jordan, SPE, is a subject matter expert for inorganic scale management with ChampionX. He has been with the company since 1997. Jordan holds a BS degree in geology/chemistry and PhD degree in geochemistry. His current interests include the development of topside/downhole inorganic scale-management programs within the Americas, North Sea, Middle East, and west Africa, along with the investigation of new scale-inhibitor molecules, novel deployment applications, and monitoring methods for scale control. Jordan has been an author or co-author of over 200 SPE, National Association of Corrosion Engineers, and Royal Society of Chemistry papers on inorganic scale management and associated formation-damage remediation. He has been an honoree professor at the Institute of GeoEnergy Engineering at Heriot-Watt University for the past 12 years.

  • Injection of CO₂ into depleted gas reservoirs, and even more so for saline aquifers, initiates a series of interconnected physical and geochemical phenomena. The geochemical process within silicate and carbonate reservoirs offers the potential to enhance storge by creating secure CO₂ reactions with rock/brine/additives.
  • To evaluate performance of a range of blended inhibitors, a trial was run on a North Sea produced water system which was applying monoethanolamine (MEA) phosphonate-type scale inhibitor as well as novel cleaning programs to counter a high carbonate saturation ratio in the heater. The objective was to find an improved scale inhibitor formulation that would outperform M…