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Cold, Dark & Far Below the Surface: Combatting Deep Water Paraffin Blockages

The oil and gas industry, particularly in challenging environments like the deep water Gulf of Mexico, faces a persistent and...


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Tags: PipeRenew®, Offshore

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

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

Paraffin Challenges in Deepwater Gulf of Mexico: More Than Cold Water

Paraffin deposition involves thermodynamics, but other operational consequences arise that draw from all physical disciplines...


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Tags: Offshore, Operations