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How we Fixed a Wax Issue for a Customer

Resulting in Thousands of Dollars in Savings



There once was a time when Contact Chemicals was invited to help mitigate wax issues for a prominent producer in the greater Pembina area. This customer's current dewax cost per year was over 2 million, and we came in trying to see if there was a ...

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Categories: Success Stories

High Pressure in Flow Line



A customer in East Central Alberta producing Sparky Zone oil was experiencing line pressure issues. This field has all 2-inch flow lines, and some of the line pressures were approaching 350 psi and causing some of the wells to Presco out due to high ...

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Categories: Field Stories

Spring Cleaning



Spring is officially here and we are enjoying nature while visiting sites and customers on the chemical sale trail. This week one of our customers shut in battery sites had a substantial amount of debris in the ditch and against the fence. As we take ...

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Categories: Field Stories

Switching a Customer's Batch Program to Continuous Injection



One of our customers has recently developed an issue regarding various trucked in loads coming into their battery with a high wax content. This customer is currently trucking in sweet & sour fluids from various locations, which are stored in separate ...

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Categories: Field Stories

Cost Savings



A Client of Contact's has two wells that are currently on our scale batch program, and a competitors wax program both being batched monthly. To save them money, we proposed switching the wells over to a monthly batch with one of our Combination products ...

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Categories: Success Stories

Chemicals; Sometimes You Need Them



One of our customers had decided to proceed with production with zero treatment. After 9 months without chemical this field was having extreme problems. Due to the issues occurring the management of this field decided to start a new treatment regime. ...

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Hydrate Issues



A customer in the Wilson Creek field was using upwards of 200 liters per day of methanol to treat a new glauc gas well. Contact began using our H5131 Hydrate Inhibitor on this well at 20 liters per day to start. We slowly optimized our rate down ...

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