What will you learn:
- Crude oil composition
- Wax issues in crude oil production systems
- Fluids cooling mechanisms in a production system
- Theories and Mechanism of wax deposition in oil production systems : molecular diffusion, shear dispersion, Brownian diffusion, gravity settling, shear stripping and others.
- Wax appearance temperature (WAT) and pour point (PP)
- Crude oil testing for wax risk assessment
- Factors affecting wax deposition in oil and gas fields
- Wax deposits analysis and characterization
- Wax deposits detection and monitoring in the field
- Wax management
- Chemical methods of management : wax inhibitors, pour point depressants , wax dispersants, solvents and their application.
- Non-chemical methods
- Operational methods
- Wax deposits removal
- Building wax management strategy step by step
- Case studies
Who should attend?
- Account managers
- Production chemists
- Oilfield microbiologists
- Production engineers
- Production technicians
- Reservoir engineers
- Students and new graduates : chemical engineering, petroleum engineering, chemistry , biochemistry and geochemistry