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Remediation 101
By Robert Callais On July 6, 2022

Remediation 101

As the oil and gas industry evolves, so do its challenges. Maintenance management of oilfield equipment is key in thriving in...


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Tags: PipeRenew®, WellRenew®

Preventative Maintenance 101: Defending Your Assets

Just like your vehicle, oilfield assets need maintenance. The most beneficial upkeep oil and gas companies can do to protect...


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Tags: Operations, lamflo, lamkleen

Green Seal® Certification: Bringing Environmentally Responsible Chemicals to the Oilfield

You’ve seen it at Whole Foods. Now look for it in the oilfield.

When we started developing WellRenew® and PipeRenew®, we knew...


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Tags: Green Chemistry, Operations

Mechanical Pigs: The Second-Best Choice for Paraffin Removal

Mechanical pipeline pigs have been in widespread use for a long time. One survey catalogs more than 500 types of mechanical pigs...


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Tags: Land, Offshore, Operations

A Performance Benchmark for Paraffin Removal in the Gulf of Mexico

An early Ideal Energy Solutions, LLC WellRenew® success story was the topic of an article in the August 2016 issue of E&P...


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Tags: Offshore, Green Chemistry, Operations

Prepare for Hot Work by Removing Volatile Organic Compounds

Hot work, performed during pipeline maintenance, repair, salvage, and abandonments-in-place activities, carries great HSE risk....


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Tags: Offshore, Safety, Operations

Green Chemistry Isn’t Coming. It’s Here.

Although consumers in end-use applications may not be aware of it, a large volume and wide scope of research and development in...


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Tags: Technology, Green Chemistry

Clearing Subsea Pipeline Blockages in Deep, Cold Water

A solution to the problem of subsea pipeline blockages was well described in a 1999 patent application by Dr. Benton F. Baugh, a...


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Tags: Offshore, Green Chemistry

Chemical Viscosity Reducers: The Best Cure For Asphaltene Plugging

Reservoir crude oils consist of dissolved gases, liquids, and dissolved solids. Asphaltenes are the dissolved solids component of...


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Tags: Offshore, Technology

Non-Toxic Paraffin Remover Returns Flow to Long-Plugged GOM Pipeline

World Oil magazine, in its April 2015 issue, took note of an early Ideal Energy Solutions, LLC success story. In this case, a...


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Tags: Offshore, Operations