Frank Hartley,
Drilling & Production Editor
HOUSTON -- It takes production chemicals with advanced viscosity, stability, and density characteristics under extreme temperatures and pressures to treat corrosion, hydrate, wax, asphaltenes, scale or other drilling and production problems in thousands of feet of water, said Stephen Horner of Champion Technologies at the 2008 Offshore Technology Conference in Houston.
To be sure a deepwater environment chemical both performs as intended and can be injected in through an umbilical or capillary string several miles in length, special measures also must be taken each time the chemical is handled to ensure that it is not contaminated, he said.
Rigorous processes and high-tech analytical instrumentation are required to assure a specialty chemical will perform as designed in sever deepwater environments – from initial design and testing, to delivery to a floating production facility ready to work, he said.
05/05/2008
