流量保证和规模团队硕士（FAST）

流量保证和规模团队（FAST）由25多名学者，研究人员，研究学生，技术人员和支持人员组成，主要位于赫瑞瓦特大学和利兹大学。FAST提供研究和咨询服务，主要侧重于油田规模的管理。诸如硫酸钡（BaSO4）和碳酸钙（CaCO3）之类的矿物垢会在采油井（以及储层）中形成，这会导致一些严重且昂贵的生产问题。管理油田水垢的最好方法之一是使用化学水垢抑制剂，该水垢抑制剂是可以防止水垢形成的一系列化学品（有机膦酸酯和高分子材料）。这些阻垢剂有时通过所谓的“挤压”处理注入生产井的近井地层。
The Flow Assurance and Scale Team (FAST) is a group of over 25 academics, researchers, research students, technicians and support staff, based mainly at Heriot-Watt University and also at the University of Leeds. FAST deliver research and consultancy, focusing primarily on the management of oilfield scale. Mineral scales such as barium sulphate (BaSO4) and calcium carbonate (CaCO3) can form in oil production wells (and in the reservoir) and this can lead to some severe and expensive production problems. One of the best approaches to managing oilfield scale is to apply chemical scale inhibitors which are a range of chemicals (organic phosphonates and polymeric materials) which can prevent the scale from forming. These scale inhibitors are sometimes injected into the near-well formation of the producer well in a so-called ''squeeze'' treatment. They are retained in the formation after the producer well comes back on stream by two main mechanisms, adsorption and precipitation. These processes can be simulated in reactive transport models and the group have developed the main model used in the industry, SQUEEZE, this code has been used to design 10s of thousands of scale inhibitor ''squeeze'' treatment in many oilfields around the world.