We Know What's in the Pipeline

Flow assurance in the oil and gas industry is now more crucial than ever.

The move to increasingly deeper waters, production from marginal fields and ageing reservoirs, long-tieback systems and co-mingling of multiphase fluids under extreme conditions all present major flow assurance challenges.

For hydrate prevention, traditional thermodynamic inhibition approaches (e.g. methanol, glycols) are beginning to be superseded by emerging technologies such as LDHIs (Low Dosage Hydrate Inhibitors) and cold flow. Highly tailored, field specific solutions are now the norm for economic and safe production.

At Hydrafact, we have been providing hydrate, flow assurance and PVT services to industry for over 20 years. Reservoir fluids, hydrates, wax, salting-out... - these are not just a small section in our services brochure, they are what we do everyday.

Our laboratory at the Centre for Gas Hydrate Research, Heriot-Watt University, is one of the best equipped in the world, with over 40 novel, versatile set-ups for hydrate, flow assurance and hydrocarbon PVT studies, as well as one of the few commercial flow loop facilities available in Europe. Our staff have a wide range of expertise, including production engineering, chemical engineering, physical chemistry, physics and geology, so if one of us does not know the answer, we can usually find someone who does.

We aim to provide our clients with the highest standard of technical service on time and to budget. So if you want to talk to people who really know flow assurance, give us a call - we love a challenge..