Petrophase 2022: PSL with Booth and Talk

We are very pleased that PSL Systemtechnik GmbH is participating in Petrophase 2022 in Colombia. Dr. Jens Pfeiffer will be there as a speaker as well as with a poster presentation and a booth.

The Title of his Talk is:
"Design implementation and optimization of paraffin mitigation strategies-the importance of understanding the limitations of physical property and compositional data: wax deposition in the presence of inhibitors and pour point depressants"

Once a potential for wax deposition has been identified during FEED effective mitigation strategies with and without the use of production chemicals are designed and implemented in the respective operational procedures. However, although the industry is many decades of experience in handling waxy crude oils are continuous challenge remains in the understanding of physical property and compositional data generated by different laboratories on a global basis using a variety of in-house test procedures or various international standards. In addition in many cases the original data used for the early design may have been generated years or even decades ago. This poses a significant challenge for the design team as not only test conditions may not be well documented but also in many cases the sampling procedure of the original fluids is unknown.

To illustrate these challenges and to provide a guideline on the best way to utilise historic data and aligning it with data generated by current state-of-the-art experimental designs this paper details the evaluation process and experimental assessment performed under field conditions exemplified on examples from onshore field located in northern Germany.

Summary:
Following a review of historical data new tests were performed with a novel fibre-optic detection system for the onset of wax crystallisation, wax deposition was assessed utilising a solid deposition cell with a wider operational envelope in contrast to the traditional cold finger setup and the option to evaluate chemical performance in presence of variety of surfaces representing different pipeline materials and ages as well as variations in pressure/temperature and cooling. This enabled the evaluation of a wide variety of changes in system conditions to be studied and resulted in an effective strategy to address the flow assurance risks.

About the Conference Petrophase (https://petrophase2022.org/program/´)
The International Conference on Petroleum Phase Behavior and Fouling (PetroPhase) is the premiere international meeting where industrial and academic researchers meet to discuss the latest findings in:

• Petroleum Chemistry
• Petroleum Properties and Phase behavior
• Asphaltene and wax deposition
• Emulsions and interfacial phenomena
• Flow Assurance
• Multiphase flow
• Conventional and unconventional resources
• Upgrading & Fouling

This year, they encourage the academic and industrial researchers to abord new important topics: Produced water management (In the framework of the interfacial phenomena) and Petroleum and Energy Transition; with the aim of contributing since ours sources with the climate change, a big challenge for the humanity and for us as petroleum researchers.

We are very happy to be part of this event again!