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MULTI-CHEM CELEBRATES GRAND OPENING

OF SHAFTER LOCATION

 

SHAFTER, Calif. (April 1, 2010) - Multi-Chem®, a global provider of oilfield production chemicals, celebrated the grand opening of its new West Coast location in Shafter, Ca. on Wednesday, announced Harold Johnson, Vice President of Global Business Development.

Multi-Chem hosted over 100 people at the grand opening event held at the new facility on Wednesday, which included lunch, tours of the laboratory and an address from Multi-Chem President and Chief Executive Officer, James Archer.

The facility consists of 3,000 sq ft of office space, a 1,600-sq-ft laboratory and a 4-acre storage yard.  It will provide service, sales support, technical analysis and delivery of specialty production chemicals for the oil and gas industry throughout Kern, San Luis Obispo, Tulare, Kings, Ventura, Los Angeles, Fresno, Merced and Madera counties, the largest producing area in California. The Shafter office is the third Multi-Chem location on the West Coast. Other offices, laboratories, blend plants and warehouses are located in Ventura and Meridian. 

The facility’s operations will be managed by Regional Operations Manager, Mark Wade, who has over 25 years of industry experience in production chemicals within California.

According to Wade, Multi-Chem strategically places offices within a 100-mile radius of its customers’ fields to provide focused local service.

“Superior local service is one of Multi-Chem’s fundamental objectives so that we can provide technical analysis and product support that is specific to the area and the technical challenges our customers are facing,” Wade said.

 

Benefits

  • Mitigate corrosion in flowlines, transmission lines, gathering lines and pipelines of oil and gas systems
  • Mitigate pitting corrosion
  • Lower dosage rates
  • Combination products
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Symptoms

  • Increased iron and manganese levels in produced fluids
  • Increased iron carbonate and iron sulfide deposition in flowlines and pipelines
  • Pressure drop and reduction of gas /oil production
  • Increased solids in produced water
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Root Cause

  • Corrosion occurs where water and acid gasses are present
  • The following are factors that lead to corrosion failures
    • Temperature
    • Pressure
    • Salinity of produced fluids
    • API gravity of hydrocarbon
    • Ratio of carbon dioxide to hydrogen sulfide
    • Type of scales present in the system
    • Type of solids produced by the system
    • The  amount of chlorides dissolved in produced water
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Solutions

Multi-Chem offers a variety of corrosion inhibitors including water-soluble, oil-soluble, encapsulated, high-temperature pressure-stable and umbilical-certified inhibitors. Multi-Chem will evaluate fluid properties and field conditions to customize a treatment program for your application.

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Next Steps

How can you determine if Multi-Chem corrosion inhibitors can help you?
The following information will help Multi-Chem to determine the proper treatment method for your production challenge:

  • Corrosion monitoring/ coupon probe data
  • System design & well data
  • Water analysis
  • CO2  and H2S Mol %
  • On-site pH
  • Production data
  • Pressure profiles
  • Temperature profiles
  • Current treatment regime

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