Abstract: Flow assurance is of great importance in the oil and gas industry, where the main objective is to provide and secure the transport of the well stream fluid from the reservoir to the process facilities. A root cause of many oil industry production and flow problem is paraffin wax especially in cold and deep offshore fields. About 85% of the world’s oil suffers when paraffin wax precipitates out and solidifies in the formation pores and fluid flow channels, at the wellbore, on the side walls of wells, in tubing, casing perforations, pump strings, and rods, and the complete oil transfer system of flowlines and pipelines etc. Paraffin wax deposition is costly, causing decreased production, equipment failures, bottlenecks, loss of storage and transport capacity, clogging of refinery pipe work, and loss of efficiency and revenue. In this article, different methodology for remediating wax deposits both in offshore and deep water is presented; focusing on chemical treatment techniques, mechanical treatment techniques, thermal treatment techniques, thermo-chemical and biological methods,
Keywords: Wax, Chemical, Treatment, Well, Deposition, Formation, Remediation, Pipeline.
Title: MITIGATION OF WAX IN OIL PIPELINES
Author: Surya Tejasvi THOTA, Chukwuemeka Christopher ONYEANUNA
International Journal of Engineering Research and Reviews
ISSN 2348-697X (Online)
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