Abstract: An aqueous scale inhibitor product is corrosive to the elongated feed lines of a geothermal well due to the length of such feed lines, extended residence time of the product therein, and/or the elevated internal temperatures reached therein, and such corrosivity of aqueous scale inhibitor products is reduced when the scale inhibitor actives are no more than about 10 weight percent of the aqueous solution, when the pH of such aqueous solution is raised to the range of from about 5.5, or 8, to about 12, when carbohydrazide is added to such product, and by combinations of such factors.

Abstract: The method of adding to a nitrite corrosion inhibitor composition an effective amount of a bromosulfamate which is stable with respect to the nitrite corrosion inhibitor and provides an effective biocide, bactericide and fungicide. The composition using this bromosulfamate component to nitrite is utilized at about 0.1 to 10 ppm (residual) with an optimum of about 0.2 ppm of bromosulfamate. The bromosulfamate composition comprises reacting together sodium bromide (NaBr), sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl) or chlorine, and sodium sulfamate (NaSO.sub.3 NH.sub.2) or sulfamic acid, and using the product "fresh" in treating the nitrite solution.