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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

  • Produce well defined oil and water interface
  • Better process control
  • Less “slop oil” reprocessing and disposal
  • Smaller or fewer separation units
  • Assist in cold separation
  • Reduce high viscosity of emulsions caused by interfacial stiffness
  • Used downhole, reduces pressure and increases production rates
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Symptoms

  • Solids and water do not fall out of produced water
  • Pad of emulsion at oil-water interface of separators
  • Off spec BS&W in sales oil
  • Oil has a “muddy” appearance
  • Off spec oil and grease in discharged water
  • Water has a “milky” or “chocolate milk” appearance
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Root Cause

Emulsions are caused when oil and water are mechanically or thermally forced to mix in the presence of an emulsion stabilizing surfactant. Emulsifying agents are inherent in produced oil and gas condensate. In addition, many chemical treatments, such as surface film forming corrosion inhibitors, can contain potentially emulsifying surfactants. Emulsion stabilizing surfactants collect at the boundary or interface between the oil and water and make a strong, resilient film that resists breaking. This film prevents the dispersed droplets from coalescing into larger droplets and falling out of the dispersion.

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Solutions

Multi-Chem offers emulsion breakers for both water-in-oil and oil-in-water emulsions. Each formulation is made to fit the particular emulsifiers and process conditions in the field. To determine which emulsion breaker is best suited for an application, Multi-Chem performs an extensive on-site evaluation of the system, including bench scale testing of the emulsions with fresh produced fluids.

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Next Steps

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

  • BS&W of sales oil
  • Production data
  • Temperature profiles
  • Pressure profiles
  • Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) in water
  • Oil and grease in discharged water and specifications
  • Residence time of fluids in separations
  • Process diagram
  • Current treatment regime

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