Oil & gas

We are a fully integrated manufacturer of oilfield drilling additives, supplying global service companies with specialty chemicals for their water and oil mud systems.

Drilling mud composition directly contributes to the condition and life of an oil or gas well. The ability of the fluid to cool and lubricate the bit, remove drill cuttings to the surface, control bottom hole pressure and prevent formation damage is a function of the mud composition. Our additives for oil and water based muds are designed to complement and enhance the performance of our customers’ mud systems, enabling minimum non-production time and improved well performance.

The characteristics of our customers drilling muds can be basic or complex, depending on the reservoir and operational requirements. Our portfolio contains products for use in simple low temperature, fit for purpose muds to higher temperature, higher solids oil or synthetic muds. Using our application knowledge and regional in-house testing facilities, we can evaluate the products in your mud system to ensure compatibility and performance needs are met.

Understanding the varied field and fluid conditions is critical to the success of our customer’s frac job. Our application and chemical knowledge helps in selecting the optimal chemical treatment, taking those ever changing conditions into account. We provide you with the correct technical solution, bringing economic and operational efficiencies.

Our application labs provide customer-specific support, enabling us to evaluate the performance of products quickly and provide indicative data prior to field implementation. Our R&D groups are focused on solving customer challenges with innovation and improved performance, combined with environmental and economic benefits.

 

Our heritage in water treatment and polymer chemistry provides Kemira oilfield customers with production optimization benefits specifically through efficient phase separation of produced water. Access to application expertise, a wide product portfolio, and a global manufacturing footprint allows you to treat your water streams for reuse or disposal to meet operation and environmental specifications.

Oilfield brines are successfully treated to prevent inorganic scale deposition, helping to ensure continuous flow assurance from the reservoir to the point of sale. Our R&D experts focus on delivering innovative scale control solutions as operating environments become more challenging. The development of novel inhibitor detection systems enable you to make informed treatment decisions based on rapid, simple field analysis, extending the life of your treatment and minimising operating costs.

Produced water in the process challenges the integrity of the field. Our biocides and corrosion inhibitors extend the service life of your assets, controlling SRB and APB long-term.

Kemira EOR and IOR solutions are tailored for operator choice and convenience. Whether your requirements are for chemicals alone, chemicals and hydration equipment, or fully-managed field services, we are able to provide a tailored approach to match your needs. We understand how critical the choice of chemicals is to the overall success of an oil recovery operation. To capture the most appropriate polymer properties for the optimal injectivity and sweep efficiency, we focus on four key field conditions: reservoir temperature, permeability, divalent ion concentration, and oil in place viscosity. Our conventional polyacrylamides are optimized for low severity environments and our sulphonated polymers for harsh conditions. We help you sweep more oil from the reservoir and lower the risk of damage.

Our make-down and injection systems are engineered for durability and performance to maximize polymer dissolution and injectivity. Suitable for working with dry or liquid polymers, they are sized for yard trials, piolet well and full field injection to give you flexibility in your operations. If required, we can offer the convenience of a turn-key operational approach where we provide polymers and other chemical technology, equipment logistics, polymer dissolution and injection, and monitoring.

Our aim is to be an integrated source for best-in-class polymer technology and leading equipment solutions – benefiting you with enhanced production and profit gain.

In oil sands mining operations, we collaborate with the process innovation leads of our customers to identify new approaches and improve tailings treatment efficiency. We provide solutions which maintain the high throughput of fluid fine tailings treatment and meet the regulatory requirements of oil sands tailings management (AER Directive 085). Our chemical packages are tailored to accommodate the specific mixing and dewatering mechanisms for each treatment approach while also improving the quantity and quality of released water.

Working directly with our Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) customers, our regional application teams provide unique solutions to treat your upstream and downstream operations, improving total separation efficiency and water recovery. At site, we optimize upstream chemical applications and processes to improve oil recovery and minimize carry over into downstream processes. Downstream, the use of our specialty polymers removes residual hydrocarbons and improves your water recovery efficiency to meet operational targets. We treat the separation process holistically, reducing chemical usage, improving separation performance and minimizing environmental impact.