Extension of system service life and increase in production
Oil and Gas
Methacrylates and methacrylamides are versatile building blocks for manufacturing polymers useful in oil and gas applications. Drilling, stimulation, production, midstream, EOR and infrastructure are some of the processes that may be improved employing VISIOMER® methacrylates.
VISIOMER® specialty methacrylates allow products to:
- Unlock reservoir potential
- Protect and extend asset life and reliability
- Increase and enhance production and throughput
Enhanced Oil Recovery | Chemical Flooding
Aminofunctional (cationic) methacryltaes, ether methacrylates and methacrylamides add polarity crucial to polymers used for enhanced oil recovery and chemical flooding operations.
Fluid Loss Agents
Alkyl methacrylates, aminofunctional methacrylates and methacrylamides are used as building blocks to make polymers that prevent the loss of fluid to the reservoir formation.
Friction reducer polymers for stimulation fluids.
Cationic methacrylates and methacrylamides such as VISIOMER® MAPTAC and VISIOMER® TMAEMC are commonly used in synthesis of high molecular weight cationic polymers. Applications of such polymers include cationic friction reducers for high salinity fracturing fluids and high temperature reservoirs.
Hydrate Inhibitor
Methacrylamides and aminofunctional methacrylates (VISIOMER® NIPMAA, VISIOMER® DMAPMA, VISIOMER® MADAME,) are used as building blocks to make polymers that prevent methane hydrate formation.
Rheology Modifiers and Viscosifiers
Aminofunctional methacrylates, ether methacrylates and methacrylamides add properties suitable for development of polymers to alter rheological properties including control of settling, stability of suspensions and dispersions and processability of liquids and powders.
Separation of oil-in-water emuslsions
Quats like VISIOMER® TMAEMC and VISIOMER® MAPTAC are used in preparing cationic polymers suitable for separating oil-in-water emulsions obtained during crude oil production.
Shale Control
Aminofunctional (cationic) methacrylates and methacrylamides are comonomers for production of shale control polymers.
Water Treatment
Cationic methacrylates and methacrylamides such as VISIOMER® MAPTAC and VISIOMER® TMAEMC are building blocks to make cationic water soluble polymers for treating production waste water.
Benefits
- Improved flow assurance
- Treatment of high brine waters
