Regional Focus
Operating in 22 countries allows us the ability to secure the right global supply partnerships. In turn, it allows for more flexibility at providing the right products and expertise when and where needed — ensuring a higher level of dedicated service.
Maximize Performance Minimize Cost
Constant innovation drives us forward, which also tends to drive down costs. With one of the most comprehensive chemical product lines in the industry, we also have laboratory testing capabilities conducted by highly experienced technical personnel.
Innovation Top to Bottom
Debundling is a pioneering development from Innospec Oilfield Services (IOS) for oil and gas partners, globally. In this way, we provide everything from pre-job fluid design and onsite technical services to environmentally conscious product solutions and proprietary chemical inventory management services in the most cost- effective way possible.
Our Success is Measured by Yours
Research and technology. Chemical management. Custom product design. Water treatment. Just a few of the world-class solutions Innospec Oilfield Services is prepared to deliver to ensure asset integrity and flow assurance in daily pipeline operations. All part of the main focus at Innospec: meeting your needs is first and foremost.
Technology Focused. Customer Driven.
Advanced technology is central to Innospec products and services. Backed by this technology, our formulation and manufacturing capabilities are world-class assets for the development and design of proprietary and custom chemicals. And Innospec is also a manufacturer of basic chemicals, including synthetic molecules. As a result, we can customize applications to fit specific needs, while keeping costs low.
Redi-Guard™
Innospec’s high performance water-based Redi-Guard mudsystem offer major cost and performance advantages over both oil-based and standard water-based mud systems. When applied and managed correctly, Innospec’s water-based mud systems advantages include:
- Reduced rig time, environmental impact, and formation impairment
- Higher ROPs
- Improved safety, production, and productivity
- Enhanced wellbore stability
MaxWell™ High Performance Water-Based Mud Systems
The industry’s new non-xanthan water-based drilling mud that offers major cost and performance advantages over both oil-based and standard HPWBM systems. MaxWell has been proven to resist oilfield contaminants and is superior to oil-based systems in safety and environmental impact. Additional MaxWell advantages include an outstanding coefficient of friction, higher ROPs, reduced rig time, reduced formation impairment, and improved production and wellbore stability.
MaxWell is also the only polymer product on the market that can build its own solids-free filter cake—one that is not permanent or expensive to clean up. Forming a tight, effective micro membrane across the formation, the MaxWell filter cake acts like a screen to effectively stabilize and protect the formation, preventing drilled solids from being picked up and carried through into the formation.
StrataFlex® Elastomeric Sealant
Proprietary elastomeric sealant specifically developed to improve wellbore stability even in the most challenging formations. StrataFlex is a unique blend of inert, resilient and malleable particles designed to form an elastomeric sealant that forms an optimum seal in the fractures of depleted and weak formations. StrataFlex also helps prevent differential sticking. This product is available in fine and medium grades to cover a wide range of fracture sizes.
Compatible with all drilling fluids, StrataFlex can withstand high differential pressures while isolating and sealing fractures from further propagation.
Frac-Attack®
Frac-Attack Lost Circulation Materials Solution is a complete lost circulation pill for severe applications:
- Fast acting, cost-effective solution to lost circulation
- Suitable for all types of fractures, vugular formations, weak, channeling zones, underground cross-flow and blowout situations
- Preparation, mixing, and application advantages to solve lost circulation challenges
- Available in formulations for light, normal and heavy density mixtures
RediSeal™ Squeeze Pill Application
The new acid soluble, high fluid loss squeeze pill that increases leadoff hesitation by improving filter cake compressive strength. RediSeal improves the compressive strength of the filter cake, thereby increasing leadoff hesitation. On average, compressive strength on these filter cakes is about 150-400 psi. The RediSeal acid soluble pill measures greater than 1200 psi in laboratory testing. This increase in compressive strength allows customers to return to drilling faster, which lowers NPT and associated costs.
Vanguard® Preventative LCM Evaluation System
Pre-measured, pre-mixed LCM pill developed as an innovative approach to lost circulation prevention or treatment. Innospec’s Vanguard is a multi-purpose blend of specific sized particulates that were specifically developed as an effective means to prevent lost circulation. Vanguard easily mixes with all drilling fluids and is recommended for use to seal severe to total loss situations.
- First response LCM pill package
- Seals severe to total loss situations
- Extends the life of drilling equipment
HiRate™
Innospec’s Stimulation chemical solutions designed and proven, powerful tools for enhancing the completion design and execution. We pride ourselves on co-developing proprietary stimulation systems to solve complex reservoir problems, lessen formation damage, and reduce unnecessary expense. In addition, we’re adept at replacing chemicals with optimized systems that can help our customers improve their bottom line.
An example is with our friction reducer portfolio, HiRate which are specifically designed with exact science to be more efficient – allowing our customers to use less product to achieve their desired performance results.
In recent years, slickwater fracturing systems depended largely on high performance friction reducers (FR) to achieve the pump rates required for proppant transport and suitable fracture geometry. While simple to use onsite, traditional emulsion-based friction reducers have reached the limits of their performance and affordability.
To overcome the traditional FR limits, our R&D team accepted the challenge to develop an affordable, high efficiency FR that also maintains operational simplicity without need of any special pumping equipment.
HiRate Plus was our first invert polymer emulsion-based FR that provides ultra-fast inversion and hydration, imparting significantly improved friction reduction efficiency.
Easy to mix and meter, the HiRate Plus system— unlike conventional emulsion-based FRs—is based on a higher polymer activity that allows less product per stage; thereby saving operators time and money. If chasing pump rate, the product has a better pressure to rate ratio than the conventional FR’s, allowing higher treating rates.
HiRate MAXX is an invert polymer emulsion-based friction reducer designed for ultra-fast inversion and hydration. This, coupled with higher polymer activity, has repeatedly shown exceptional performance at lower loadings without sacrificing pump rate or designed sand schedules. A better performance to loading ratio enables an array of product attributes to enhance the fracturing treatment.
HiRate MAXX is based on an anionic, high molecular weight polyacrylamide, allowing typical loadings from 0.15 to 0.75 gpt, depending on operator objectives. If lower costs are expected, lower than normal loadings provide lower cost per barrel of treated frac fluid. If the goal is achieving better pump rates, increasing HiRate MAXX loadings to more conventional loadings normally enables 5 to 15 BPM better rate.
VisLink™
For decades, companies have pursued chemical technologies to help maximize production and reduce costs. In the mid 1990s, slickwater fracs were reintroduced as a less expensive, less damaging alternative to conventional crosslinked gel treatments. In the early 2000s, the sequential combination of slickwater and gel (hybrids) was introduced to improve stimulation effectiveness and lower completion costs.
But both technologies have drawbacks – while slickwater treatments provide good fracture development, especially maximizing fracture complexity without causing extensive damage, it suffers from limited proppant carrying capacity, normally less than 2 lb/gal. Furthermore, slickwater’s low viscosity provides minimal fracture width—thereby preventing the placement of high volumes of larger-sized proppant.
In contrast, crosslinked gels offer good fracture development, but poor fracture complexity growth. While this technology does create fracture width for both larger-sized proppant and high volumes of proppant needed for high fracture conductivity, these gels can severely damage the proppant pack, limiting initial and ultimate production.
VisLink 200, the next generation VisLink System offering the best of the viscous gel and slick-water worlds— without the downsides. Like no other solution on the market, VisLink 200 combines the upsides of slick-water and gel systems. Indeed, the visible lipping of the viscoelastic gel is easily observed with gel loadings as low as 8-10 ppt. VisLink 200 cross-linked fluids allow operators to use less chemical while accomplishing the advantages obtained from conventional gel and slick water treatments. The VisLink 200 is designed for improved pumping and cold weather conditions while enhancing the viscoelastic-nature of ultra-low gel systems.
The second generation VisLink crosslinker, VisLink 300. is also a water-based crosslinker that was specifically designed to be more environmentally acceptable and easier to handle. Like the previous generation, VisLink 300 also has an ultra-low loading of guar gum that ranges from 8 to 12 ppt. VisLink 300 functions as a conventional borate crosslinker for higher loadings of guar when necessary, but its mainstay applications are ultra-low loadings of gel.
Suitable viscosity will occur with FANN 35 base gel viscosities as low as 3.5 cP at 511 sec-1. Typical loadings will range from 0.75 to 2.0 gpt with the buffered alkalinity ranging from pH 9.5 to 10.5. Also, any conventional breaker will work with the VisLink 300 crosslinked fluid.
Production Chemicals
Innospec. Where every project begins with 50+ years of product innovation, performance and reliability.
Our production chemical solutions and service offerings integrate more than 50 years of experience and product development into one of the most comprehensive production chemical product lines in the industry. Period.
Production problems occur within the reservoir’s hydrocarbons and water-stream compositions if chemical applications are not regularly monitored and tested. The same holds true if post-production analyses were flawed or chemical treatment programs were poorly designed because of inadequate communications between design engineers, production chemists, and chemical providers.
H2S Scavengers
Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) is an extremely toxic and corrosive gas. If left untreated the H2S can cause pitting, stress cracking corrosion and iron sulfide deposition, and scaling in producing wells. Not only are high concentrations of H2S extremely dangerous for field personnel, it also prevents operators from selling the hydrocarbon until the H2S is removed. Hence, it is desirable to remove the H2S at the earliest stage possible.
OFS offers a wide range of triazine-based, oil and water-soluble scavengers. These scavengers can be custom formulated to precise needs. In addition, OFS offers non-amine scavengers too.
Midstream
When operational excellence is your only goal, operational excellence is achieved.
Top to bottom, end to end, our midstream pipeline product and services are meant to ensure asset integrity and flow assurance. Our midstream capabilities are also designed to be integrated into a program development and automated chemical management.
As a basic manufacturer, we offer customized solutions for crude and refined products, emphasizing local, personalized service to provide cost-effective treatment programs. Innovative chemical solutions deliver forward thinking program design and implementation. And our industry leading site safety practices and proven solutions ensure reliable performance.
Drag Reducing Agents (DRAs): Improving pipeline productivity while cutting costs.
Simply put, DRAs reduce the frictional pressure within the flow of a pipeline or conduit. Acting as buffers along the pipe wall, drag reducing agents are long-chain hydrocarbon polymers that decrease the amount of energy lost in turbulent formation. DRAs enable operators to increase pipeline flow using the same amount of energy, or to decrease the pressure drop for the same fluid flow rate.
Innospec’s industry-leading DRAs are engineered to solve the complex challenges that other drag reducers fail to effectively, efficiently address.
Suitable for both crude and refined oil applications, OFS DRAs de-bottleneck pipeline systems without expensive equipment upgrades. They also reduce energy consumption by minimizing drag within the pipeline, lower operating pressures without sacrificing pipeline capacity, and prevent additional costs by eliminating both intermediate pump stations and new pipelines from system designs.