Recent Projects
Hydrafact has successfully completed over 200 projects for more than 50 different companies in 30 countries. Some examples of recent projects are listed below for our key operating areas:
Gas Hydrate
- Experimental Hydrate Measurements for Several North Sea Drilling Fluid Formulations
- Hydrate Inhibition Design for a Start-Up in Brazil
- Hydrate Phase Boundary Measurements for Hydraulic Fluids
- Methane Hydrate Equilibrium Measurements on Water-Based Hydraulic Fluid
- Water Content Measurements of Different Gas Mixtures with Varying Carbon Dioxide Content in Equilibrium with Hydrates
- Providing Kinetic Hydrate Inhibitor concentration monitoring device
- The device, HydraCHEK® can determine salt and KHI (or alcohols, or glycols, or AA) concentration to ensure optimisation of inhibitor injection rates
- KHI Screening by Crystal Growth Inhibition Evaluation Methods for a Synthetic Gas + Real Oil System
- KHI Evaluation, Screening & Feasibility Testing
- Anti-Agglomerant Evaluation in gas condensate systems
- MEG Hydrate Inhibition Characteristics and Amount of Hydrates formed in a Lean Gas Condensate System
- Use Of Ethanol as Hydrate Inhibitor in a Sour System
- Gas Production from Gas Hydrate Reservoirs
- Risk of Hydrate Formation in an Underground Gas Storage (Depleted Reservoir)
- Risk of Hydrate Formation in an Underground Gas Storage (Salt Cavern)
- Flow Assurance Aspects of Oil and Gas Processing and Transportation
- Identification and Solutions for Flow Assurance Problems in Dew Pointing and Mercaptan Removal Unit in a Gas Processing Complex
- Sludge Formation Problems in Reboiler of Condensate Stabiliser, Phase-1: Identification of Sludge Components a Gas Processing Complex
- Hydrate prevention in gas processing (e.g., low temperature separator)
- Identification of solids formed in oil processing
- Flow Line Phase Analysis of an unknown oil-water interfacial gel-like liquid phase
- Corrosion Inhibitor Release Rate in Soluble Glass
PVT
- Gas Solubility in Oil Based Mud Formulation for High Pressure High Temperature (HPHT) Operations
- Compositional Analysis of Condensate Associated Sludge
- Molar Mass Determination Investigation
- Molecular Weight Measurement for C7+
- Carbon Dioxide EOR PVT Study
- Laboratory Characterisation of a North Sea Crude Behaviour at Simulated Moray Firth Sea Surface Conditions for Improved Oil Slick Volume Assessment
- Effect of Long Term Exposure to Hydrocarbon on Pig Disk Materials
- Slim Tube CO2 Displacement and PVT Tests of a UK Reservoir Fluid
- Effect of Mud Filtrate on the Viscosity of Reservoir Fluids
Wax and Asphaltene
- Experimental Wax Appearance and Wax Disappearance Measurements for a Live Oil Using Quartz Crystal Microbalance Technology
- Measuring wax phase boundary for a gas condensate system
- Evaluating Different Wax Inhibitors
- Evaluation of Waxy Crude for finding solutions
- Determination of Asphaltene Precipitation
- Review of African Waxy Oils in Terms of Oil Composition and Experimental Results from Wax Inhibitor Tests
Physical Property VLE, SLE Studies
- Gas and gas condensate sampling
- Assessment of Solvents for Removal of Corrosion Inhibitor Related Deposits in an Export Line Slug Catchers
- MEG Distribution in Water-Hydrocarbon-Vapour phases
- VLE for MDEA-EG-NaCl-H2O Quaternary Mixtures
- Solid formation in Low Temperature Separator
- Measurement of LLE for the Isoprene-Ethanol-Water System and N2/O2/CO2 Solubilities in Isoprene for Determination of Henry's Law Coefficients
- Experimental and Modelling Study of Vapour Liquid Hydrate Equilibria of Carbon Dioxide Hydrates
Hydrates in Porous Media
- Wellbore Integrity in Hydrate Bearing Sediments
- An Evaluation of Risks Associated with Gas Hydrate Formation and Dissociation in Underground Disposal of Nuclear Wastes
- DME Storage in Underground Caverns: Impact of DME Contact with Pore Water/Ice and DME Hydrate Formation on DME Water Content
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