Field testing and commercial application of high-efficiency nonpolymeric gas hydrate inhibitor in offshore platforms

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 1999-September, Issue , 1998, Pages 711-720

  Pakulski, Marek ^a   Prukop, Gabriel ^b   Mitchell, Caesar ^c  

^a Unichem a Division of BJ Services   (United States)

^b Texaco Inc   (United States)

^c Trinmar Ltd   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORROSION INHIBITORS; FREEZING; GAS HYDRATES; HYDROCARBONS; METHANOL; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; OIL BEARING FORMATIONS; PRODUCTION PLATFORMS;

GAS DECOMPRESSION; NONPOLYMERIC GAS HYDRATE INHIBITOR;

OIL WELL TESTING;

EID: 0031636732     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (7)

1. D.L. Katz, Prediction of Conditions of Hydrate Formation in Natural Gases, Trans. AIME, 160:140.
2. E.D. Sloan Jr., Clathrate Hydrates of Natural Gases, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York 1998.
3. E.D. Sloan Jr., Natural Gas Hydrates, JPT, December 1991, 1414-1417.
4. C.B. Argo, R.A. Blain, C.G. Osborne, I.D. Priestley, Commercial Deployment of Low Dosage Hydrate Inhibitors in a Southern North Sea 69 Kilometer Wet-Gas Subsea Pipeline, SPE 37255, the SPE International Symposium on Oilfield Chemistry in Houston, Texas, 18-21 February 1997.
5. M. Pakulski, Method for Controlling Gas Hydrates in Fluid Mixtures, U.S. Patent 5,741,758, April 21, 1998.
6. M. Pakulski, High Efficiency Nonpolymeric Gas Hydrate Inhibitors, SPE 37285, presented at the SPE International Symposium on Oilfield Chemistry in Houston, Texas, 18-21 February 1997.
7. Joule-Thomson cooling effect and hydrate equilibriums were calculated using computer Colorado School of Mines software supplied with the Reference 2.