Metodología para el estudio de comportamiento de parafinas en operaciones de producción de hidrocaarburos

• Main Authors: Emiliano Ariza León, Fernando Enrique Calvete González, Jose Francisco Zapata Arango
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Industrial de Santander 2008-12-01
• Series: Revista Fuentes El Reventón Energético
• Subjects: Wax precipitation; Wax behavior; Sampling design; characterization of fluid envelope of wax precipitation
• Online Access: https://revistas.uis.edu.co/index.php/revistafuentes/article/view/94/186

Paraffin precipitation occurs in many oil fields causing problems and increasing the operational costs, which in severe cases and without a proper diagnosis and control in few time can lead to loss of wells. To avoid such problems is necessary to characterize adequately the fluid and its thermodynamic and compositional behavior, to assess the conditions under which possibly happen the phenomenon of deposition. In order to achieve this is necessary, to take a representative sample of the fluid to study experimentally the phenomenon and fit a model that identifies it, for implement prevention and control methods that contribute to the solution. This article presents the methodology followed to study the behavior of wax. In This paper presents the methodology obtained for studying the behavior of wax in mature fields, which was developed, implemented and improved in the research for determining the onset of wax precipitation in crude oil field Colorado.