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OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY
HOW IT LOOKS LIKE?
❖Pure barium sulphate is hard dense white solid. Pure TENORM scale can be like that
(especially in tubulars).
❖More usually thin, eggshell-like, light or dark brown.
❖Sometimes deep in the surface matrix, so not visible.
❖Separator sludges are granular suspensions.
❖Pig waxes are black tarry materials, often with chunks of rust and scale mixed in.
