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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
- Reduction of oxygen content in oilfield fluids injected downhole
- Minimizing oxygen induced corrosion and pitting
- Minimizing iron oxide deposition and scaling
- Reduce consumption of oxygen corrosion inhibitors
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Symptoms
- Dark produced water indicating magnetite or hematite
- Reddish or brown solids precipitating from produced water
- Excessive turbidity of produced water
- Shallow round or oval shaped pits on metal surfaces
- Reddish or black flaky solid deposits on metal surfaces
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Root Cause
Most oxygen corrosion in oilfield metallurgy is caused by addition of fluids from the surface that have been exposed to air for any length of time. When large quantities of fluids are injected downhole as in fracturing operations, salt water disposal wells, formation squeezes, or water flood operations, oxygen can be introduced downhole in significant quantities. Other chemical injections can also introduce oxygen in smaller, but still detrimental quantities. Cross-contamination of formation water from neighboring oilfield operations is another source of oxygen.
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Solutions
Multi-Chem offers a variety of oxygen scavengers including bisulfites and sulfites for oilfield applications. Choice of scavenger depends on the amount of oxygen in the fluids. If oxygen levels exceed certain threshold amounts, an oxygen corrosion inhibitor may be recommended together with an oxygen scavenger. The Multi-Chem oxygen scavenger product line includes efficient and highly effective products for oxygen mitigation in all oilfield applications.
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Next Steps
How can you determine if Multi-Chem oxygen scavenger can help you?
The following information will help Multi-Chem to determine the proper treatment method for your production challenge:
- Production data
- Temperature profiles
- Pressure profiles
- Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) in water
- Oxygen levels
- Process diagram
- Current treatment regime