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The Catalysts

A key catalyst to Oil & Gas production, chemistry is helping resolve several challenges:

Specialty oilfield Demulsifiers economically Organic and thermally
chemicals are making separate saline water from stable corrosion &scale
exploration and crude oil before refining. inhibitors are preventing
production more Saline, water if not build of corrosion and
cost efficient and removed, could cause scale in the production
environmentally significant corrosion system, reducing
friendly problems equipment & maintenance
costs.

Refiners are getting With Chemistry, waste Ion exchange resins are used
enhanced oil recovery during drilling processes as a stationary catalyst in
with specialty oil field is minimized and grime on petroleum refinery plants,
chemicals used in oilfield equipment cleaned as catalysts for esterification
drilling fluids, workover, in a cost-effective manner and etherification processes,
completion and over conventional sulphuric
cementing acid, which releases large
quantities of effluents during
the process.

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48 Chemistry Everywhere
In Pursuit of Sustainable Development