HOUSTON, May 28, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Halbouty Energy,
LLC, Houston, TX, has acquired the
intellectual property including issued and pending U.S. and
international patents, applications expertise and full product line
of Malcera, LLC, enhancing its product offering in the area of
paraffin and asphaltene treatment chemistries as well as emulsion
breakers and solids dispersants.
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Halbouty's ParaFlow® paraffin control products, now
available for the first time on a large scale to oilfield service
companies, are designed to increase flow assurance of crude oil
production and reduce downtime due to wax deposition.
Halbouty's unique patented mechanism to convert crystalline wax to
an amorphous form results in increased paraffin wax solubility in
crude oil. In the treatment of production crude oil paraffin
wax waste sludges, the ParaFlow products have the potential to
achieve a BS&W of 0.00%, rarely if ever previously attained in
the industry. Halbouty's products are also designed to
eliminate rag layers at heater treaters and desalters and also may
enhance performance when co-blended with chemistries currently used
in upstream, midstream, and downstream operations.
"The acquisition of the Malcera IP was very strategic to the
company. This unique technology brings us innovative
chemistries to address challenges in flow assurance, particularly
paraffin wax and asphaltene formation inhibition, as well as
solutions for hydrocarbon recovery, reclamation, liquefaction,
demulsification, separation, storage and transport vessel
hydrocarbon sludge removal." says Michel
Halbouty Hewitt.
The ParaFlow products are produced in the class leading
manufacturing assets available within the portfolio of companies
under Paro Services Co., managing member of Halbouty Energy,
LLC. These assets include United
States based manufacturing plants in Texas, California, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Ohio with production capacity exceeding 400
million lbs annually.
"The ParaFlow line of products work as broad spectrum
paraffin and asphaltene treatments across a wide array of crudes,
particularly heavy oil, tight oil & shale crudes in
applications such as hot oiling, downhole batch treatments and
continuous injection treatment on wells, flow lines, gathering
systems, pipelines and tanks. Select products within the
ParaFlow line of products are migratory and will help keep
paraffin wax and asphaltenes in suspension from wellhead to
refinery and can also lower the B.S.&W. of crude oil, allowing
for higher hydrocarbon recovery." says Ross
P. Kennedy, Jr., Director of New Product Development and
Strategic Initiatives.
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