Production Optimization | SLB

Production optimization

Chemicals to help dehydrate and desalt oil, deliquefy gas wells, degas fluids, improve flow, and clean produced water

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Maximize value throughout the life of your asset

SLB production chemistry solutions help mitigate the effects of emulsions and foaming, improve operational efficiency, maximize clean oil production, minimize water quality issues (e.g., in produced water for disposal or reinjection and in industrial water), and reduce environmental impact throughout the lifetime of your system.

Products and Services

  • Heater treaters where demulsifiers, heat, and electrostatic fields separate water and salt from crude oil.
    Chemical Demulsifiers
    For crude oil dehydration and desalting using tuned emulsion breaker chemistry

    Optimally dehydrate crude oil and clean aqueous discharge streams. View

  • Technician holding bottle of clear water, showing impact of water clarifiers on produced water.
    Water Clarifiers for Oil and Gas
    Efficiently clean produced water

    Remove oil and insoluble matter from aqueous production streams. View

  • Foam bubbles depicting foamers, which remove unwanted liquids from the well and restore gas production.
    Chemical Foamers for Gas Well Deliquification
    Liquid and solid technologies

    Unload water and condensate from gas wells. View

  • Degassing vessel in an oil train.
    Defoamers: Antifoaming Agents for Oil and Gas Production
    Counteract foam formation and promote degassing of fluids

    Defoamers are highly cost efficient, working at injection rates of just a few parts per million. View

  • Pipeline crossing some hills, depicting function of crude oil flow improvers, which reduce fluid viscosity.
    Crude Oil Flow Improvers and Viscosity Reducers
    Improve production performance

    Reduce energy needed for artificial lift, surface boosting, processing, and pipeline distribution of crude oils. View