Flowrox has developed the Flowrox Deposition Watch – a new instrument designed to enhance the monitoring of pipelines and related flow-process equipment affected by paraffin wax and asphaltene depositions. The Flowrox Deposition Watch is a predictive device, as opposed to reactive solutions, allowing its operators to address deposition issues well before these reach critical levels that can cause downtime or costly damage.
The deposition of paraffin wax and asphaltenes is a common reason for a major decrease in production and revenue in oil wells as it affects valves, pumps and pipelines, along with other pipeline components critical to the fluid control process. The Flowrox Deposition Watch was developed specifically for use in the oil & gas industry since this instrument would allow customers to generate real-time images of any depositions affecting a piping system – without having to open up the pipeline and slow down production.
The Flowrox Deposition Watch can help make better decisions regarding the timeliness and frequency of adding expensive chemicals for treatment of depositions, as well as disassembling a pipeline for manual cleaning. “This is completely new technology which has very little competition”, said Todd Loudin, President and CEO of North American Operations for Flowrox. “The Flowrox Deposition Watch can model mathematically deposition profiles and provide calculations on the free available pipe remaining.”