Understanding Paraffin and Asphaltene in the Oil and Gas Industry

Paraffin and asphaltene scaling are long-standing challenges in the oil and gas industry, best known for clogging wells, flowlines, surface facilities, and subsurface formations. Petroleum engineers need to understand the basic chemistry behind these challenges as well as how to test and treat scaling in an economical and environmentally safe way. Understanding Paraffin and Asphaltene in the Oil and Gas Industry delivers the critical tool for engineers of all career levels to understand the formation and properties as well as testing and treating methods. Organized efficiently to break down between paraffins and asphaltenes testing then treatments, engineers can learn from real-world experiences shared by the author from 40-plus years of lessons learned. Covering the spectrum between upstream and downstream equipment, Understanding Paraffin and Ashphaltene in the Oil and Gas Industry gives petroleum engineers the practical depth of knowledge needed to cover what organic deposits are, how to determine what they are in lab and field, what kind of problems they cause, how problems can be prevented, and most importantly how problems can be solved after they have occurred in a cost effective way.