ENMAX CPRS

APPLICATIONS IN
THE OIL INDUSTRY

ENMAX CPRS

ENMAX TECHNOLOGY(SHANGHAI) CO. SHANGHAI, CHINA

PARAFFIN, SCALE AND CORROSION ISSUES IN THE OIL INDUSTRY

Natural Gas
Processing Plant
Production
wells

Metering
station

Transfer
Station

Natural Gas
Pipeline
Crude Oil
Pipeline

Joint Station
Waste Water
Plant

Waste Water
pipeline

PARAFFIN, SCALE AND CORROSION PROBLEMS OCCUR IN EVERY STAGES

WHERE ENMAX CPRS CAN BE USED?

Downhole Units
n

Flowing wells

Pumping wells

Gas-lifting wells

Water injection wells

Surface Units
n Oil/Gas production facilities
n

Oil/Gas storage & transportation

facilities

Water Injection lines

Produced Water treatment

facilities

ENMAX CPRS OILFIELD UNITS | DOWNHOLE UNITS

ENMAX CPRS OILFIELD UNITS | DOWNHOLE UNITS

ENMAX CPRS OILFIELD UNITS | SURFACE UNITS

ENMAX CPRS OILFIELD UNITS | SURFACE UNITS

INLINE STYLE

DISCS

CANISTER STYLE

ENMAX CPRS OILFIELD INSTALLATION | FLOWING WELLS

CPRS
Downhole unit 
Packer 
Perforations 

ENMAX CPRS OILFIELD INSTALLATION | PUMPING WELLS

Pump

CPRS Downhole unit

Packer

Perforations

ENMAX CPRS OILFIELD INSTALLATION | ESP WELLS

ESP
ESP Sub
Packer
CPRS Downhole unit
Perforations

ENMAX CPRS OILFIELD INSTALLATION | ESP WELLS

ENMAX CPRS OILFIELD INSTALLATION | GAS LIFTING WELLS

Gas Mandrel
CPRS
Downhole unit 

Packer 

CPRS
Downhole unit
Gas Mandrel
Packer

ENMAX CPRS OILFIELD INSTALLATION | OIL/GAS

PRODUCTION, STORAGE AND TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES

PRODUCTION WELL

CPRS
OIL/GAS SEPARATOR

ENMAX CPRS OILFIELD INSTALLATION | OIL/GAS

PRODUCTION, STORAGE AND TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES
NATURAL GAS

OIL TANK

CPRS

OIL PIPELINE
WATER PIPELINE

WATER TANK

ENMAX CPRS OILFIELD INSTALLATION | WATER INJECTION

FACILITIES
WATER TANK

WATER
INJECTION
WELL

CPRS

WATER
INJECTION
PUMP

A TYPICAL ENMAX CPRS SURFACE UNIT INSTALLATION @ GNPOC

CRUDE TRANSPORTATION LINE

ENMAX CPRS 6X10

A TYPICAL ENMAX CPRS SURFACE UNIT INSTALLATION @ GNPOC

DETERMINE THE POSITION OF THE

INSTALLATION

WELL SITE MEETING

A TYPICAL ENMAX CPRS SURFACE UNIT INSTALLATION @ GNPOC

TRANSPORTATION AND FIRE

TRUCKS PREPARED
DRAIN THE PIPELINE

A TYPICAL ENMAX CPRS SURFACE UNIT INSTALLATION @ GNPOC

MOVE THE CPRS UNIT

TO THE LOCATION
REMOVE THE
WRAPPING MATERIALS
ON PIPE LINE

A TYPICAL ENMAX CPRS SURFACE UNIT INSTALLATION @ GNPOC

FLAMELESS CUTTING

A TYPICAL ENMAX CPRS SURFACE UNIT INSTALLATION @ GNPOC

WELDING AND PRESSURE TESTEDDONE!

PARAFFIN | QI24-8 WELL, DAGANG OILFIELD

n

Operator: No. 5 Production Co., Dagang Oilfield

Location: Zhouqingzhuang Oilfield

29 oil wells, serious paraffin issue during the

production
Per the reports from 2010, Of 11 rod pumping wells
and 3 ESP wells, production has be be stopped for
8 times, 30,000 meters of pumping rod has to be
replaced because of paraffin buildups.
Conventional hot oil treatment was employed,
which resulted in loss circulation of hot oil because
of low formation pressure.
Qi 24-8 well, serious pumping rod paraffin deposit
occurred, one hot oil treatment every 120 days;

PARAFFIN | QI 24-8 WELL, DAGANG OILFIELD

n

March 12th, 2011, a CPRS

Downhole unit was installed in
Qi 24-8 well;
Till January, 2012coninous
production for 325 days
without any hot oil treatment;
The comparison of pump card
and Amps, the load and amps
are in the normal area,
totaled at a production
increase of 337 tons.

PARAFFIN | QI 24-8 WELL, DAGANG OILFIELD

Qi 24-8 Production Curve

PARAFFIN | QI 24-8 WELL, DAGANG OILFIELD

PUMP CARD AFTER THE INSTALLATION OF CPRS

PARAFFIN |Q-12 WELL, ZHONGYUAN OILFIELD

0.9

0.8

0.8
0.7
0.6

Liquid, T/D

Location: Qiaokou

0.6
0.5

0.5
0.4
0.3

Operator: No. 6 Production Co, Zhongyuan

Oil Field, Sinopec

Oil, T/D

0.3

Before the installation of CPRS In February,

2012

0.2
0.1
0
Before

Well No.: Q2-12, one of the most serious

paraffin wells

After

Comparison of Production Rate before and After

Daily Liquid 0.6 tonsDaily Oil 0.3 tons

Up stroke 58 ADown stroke 48 A

One hot oil treatment every 32 days

PARAFFIN |Q-12 WELL, ZHONGYUAN OILFIELD

70
60
50

Up, A

58
48

48

n
41

40

One year after the installation of

CPRS

Down, A

30
20
10

0
Before

After

Comparison of Motor Amps before and After

Up stroke 48 A, Down stroke

41 A;
One hot oil treatment every
55 days
Daily Liquid 0.8 tons, Daily Oil
0.5 tons;

Paraffin | Daqing Oilfield #7 Production Company

Installation Location: Crew #710, Daqing Oilfield #7 Production Company

Well # 63-72/Oct.,15, 2013; Well# 69-782/Oct.,18, 2013

DN 50 PN 2.5MPa

Valve Group Room

Wellhead

Paraffin | Daqing Oilfield #7 Production Company

Onsite Installation Photos

Paraffin | Daqing Oilfield #7 Production Company

Well

Oil

Liquid

Water

No.

t/d

t/d

Flowline

Flowline

size

Length

mm

Max
Back

Hot Oil

Pressure

Cyle d

Return Oil
Temp.

MPa

63-72

2.23

25.51

91.27

60*3.5

90

3.8

30

34

69-782

0.69

22

96.86

60*3.5

950

3.5

30

32

Basic Data from Well 63-72 & 69-782

Paraffin | Daqing Oilfield #7 Production Company

Back Pressure Comparison before and after the installations

Paraffin | Daqing Oilfield #7 Production Company

250
210
200
150

150

Before the installationd

After the installationd

100

Summer After the installation

60

50

30

60
30

0
Well 63-72

Well 69-782

Chemical Cleaning Interval (days) Before and After the installation

Paraffin | Daqing Oilfield #7 Production Company

Oil Pressure Comparison Before and After the installation @Well 69-782

Paraffin | Daqing Oilfield #7 Production Company

Oil Pressure Comparison Before and After the installation @Well 63-72

Paraffin | Daqing Oilfield #7 Production Company

Photo Comparison before (left) and After (right) the installation

Scale & Corrosion | Sinopec Zhongyuan Oilfield

Well#: Xinhe 16
Operator: No.6 Production
Company
Downhole issues: Scale &
Corrosion

Before the installation

Daily Production: 1.3 tons of Liquid, 1.2 tons of crude

Heavy scale and corrosion on tubing string & pump

Averaged at a pump repair every 45 days, three times of pump failures within six months

Scale & Corrosion | Sinopec Zhongyuan Oilfield

3
2.5
2
1.5

Liquid, tons
Crude, tons

One Year after the installation

Daily Production: 2.5 tons of Liquid, 1.5 tons of crude

No new scale buildups on tubing string and the pump

No pump repair job within 370 days

0.5
0
Before
installation

After
installation

SCALE | CNOOC BOHAI OIL COMPANY

Location: Well No.:SZ36-1-J10, SZ36-1Platform

Operator: CNOOC Bohai Oil Company
Before installation:
n

Production started on Dec. 14, 1997 with ESP. The oil production
was stabilized above 100 m3/d after acidizing in 1998.

Since mid April, 2005, EPS failed frequently due to scale buildup

A magnetic scale tool was run into the well, but it did not work,
failed in a short time, less than 3 months

It was concluded that such a frequent pump inspection and

repair was mainly caused by the downhole scale buildup, which
resulted pump failure and reduced production.

SCALE | CNOOC BOHAI OIL COMPANY

Scale analysis indicated that the main composition of

scale is Ba0.75Sr0.25SO4, up to 98%
Barium(Ba) and Strontium (Sr) scale, which is the most
difficult scale to deal with

Ba0.75Sr0.25SO4
%

Impurities

SCALE | CNOOC BOHAI OIL COMPANY

After the installation

n

The ESP was repaired on May 4, 2006, and a Enmax

CPRS downhole unit was run into the well with the ESP.

After the installation of Enmax CPRS downhole tool,

Enmax Shanghai was advised that the production had
been stabilized at 250 m3/d, with a crude production
of 80 m3/d, and no more EPS failure because of scale
buildups

Till the report date, Oct. 16th, 2008, continuous

production for 892 days, no breakdown

Within 892 days, EPS repair related cost saving >

7,700,000 RMB, Oil production increase >16,500.000 RMB

This downhole CPRS unit is still working in this well today

SCALE | CNOOC BOHAI OIL COMPANY

J10

400
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
2004-11-9 2005-2-17 2005-5-28 2005-9-5 2005-12- 2006-3-24 2006-7-2 2006-10- 2007-1-18 2007-4-28 2007-8-6 2007-11- 2008-2-22 2008-6-1
14
10
14

SZ36-1-J10 Production Curves before and after the installation

SCALE | CNOOC BOHAI OIL COMPANY

Scale Prevention and Removal Seminar by CNOOC in Sanya, Hainan, China

SCALE | GNPOC CRUDE FLOW LINES

Location: GNPOC
NE-03 & NEE03
Trial Period: May 20th
to August 20th , 2014
CPRS Units: two sets
of 6x 10 surface
units, one for each
Report Date:
September 3rd 2014

SCALE | GNPOC CRUDE FLOW LINES

Before the CPRS installations

NE-3 & NEE-3 f low lines

frequently chocked due
to scale deposition
Scale inhibitor injected by
20 L/D for each
Even with scale inhibitor
injection scale continued
deposition
Flow line acid cleaning
carried out frequently

SCALE | GNPOC CRUDE FLOW LINES

Scales before the CPRS installation

SCALE | GNPOC CRUDE FLOW LINES

Scales before the CPRS installation

SCALE | GNPOC CRUDE FLOW LINES

NE-3& NEE-3 ENMAX CPRS installed on 20/05/2014

Chemical injection stopped after ENMAX installed as requested by Enmax Shanghai

NE-3 &NEE-3 Parameters after ENMAX installation were steady

Well Name

THP

FLP

NE-03

450

400

NEE-03

490

410

SCALE | GNPOC CRUDE FLOW LINES

NE-3 tripped on 8/8/14 due to

downhole reason, and CPRS
performance evaluation was
done at this moment
NE-3 flow line inspected and
no scale deposit inside the
flowline and valves;
NE-3 test line and production
line, which was not treated by
CPRS, was almost totally
blocked90% blockage
NE-3 blocked test line and
production line cut and
fabricated another one

SCALE | GNPOC CRUDE FLOW LINES

NE-3 started back on 18/8/14

and well parameters steady
NEE-3 evaluation confirmed
the same conclusion, the flow
line with CPRS installed, the
pressure stays stable and no
scale deposit was noticed,
and the the test line without
CPRS ended up with high
pressure and scale blockage.

SCALE | GNPOC CRUDE FLOW LINES

NO SCALE DEPOSIT THREE MONTHS AFTER CPRS INSTALLATION

SCALE | GNPOC CRUDE FLOW LINES

50 UNITS PURCHASED BY GNPOC

WITHIN 6 MONTHS AFTER THE EVALUATION

NO SCALE DEPOSIT THREE MONTHS AFTER CPRS INSTALLATION

SCALE | DAQING #1 PRODUCTION COMPANY

Located at northern part of

the country, and cold area;
Heaters are the most
necessary equipment for
crude gathering and
transportation;
Very hard produced water,
> 4000 mg/L, & very serious
scale problems with these
heaters
Over 10 years, Daqing
production companies
have been purchasing
CPRS for heater scale
issues.

SCALE | DAQING #1 PRODUCTION COMPANY

Zhongxin 201 transfer station, with a

capacity of 14000 m3/dhandles 8
metering stations and 155 oil wells;
High hardness produced water, >5100
mg/L, higher than the average of
4000 mg/L;
High composition of Ca2+HCO3-
CO32- in the produced water, Calcium
scale;
Chemicals were used for scale issues,
but scale buildup has been a trouble
issue all the time.

SCALE | DAQING #1 PRODUCTION COMPANY

Three CPRS units were installed on

Jan., 5, 2006 at the inlets of 3 heaters;
Chemicals stopped on Mar., 17, 2006;
Before the final evaluation in Nov,
2016, CPRS units had been running
for 10 months without any problem.
For evaluation of the scale
prevention performance of CPRS, 3
locations (2#4# heater tubes and
water mixing pump) were selected
for inspection points;
Two inspections done in June and
August, 2006.

SCALE | DAQING #1 PRODUCTION COMPANY

Scale Deposit Evaluation before and after CPRS installation
Inspection

Before

points

installation

4# Heater

June 13, 2006

6 mm

Hard

6 mm

Hard

2 mm

Hard

Aug. 30, 2006

1mm

88 days

165 days

w/o

w/o

chemicals

chemicals

Crispy

tubes
2# Heater

3mm

Crispy

-3

tubes
Water
Mixing

to

pump filter

knock
off

Can be scraped off easily

Easy to clean

SCALE | DAQING #1 PRODUCTION COMPANY

Before the installation of the

CPRS units, the heaters had to
be acid cleaned, plus 4-5 hour
scale cleaning;
After the installation of the CPRS
units, the scale can be jetted
off within 1 hour, no damage to
the surface.

SCALE | ZHONGYUAN OILFIELD NATURAL GAS STATION

Location: Weiqi-1&
Weiqi-11 Natural Gas
Gathering Station, 5
Natural Gas
Compressors & 3 Heat
exchangers
Operator: Zhongyuan
No.3 Production
Company
Main issue: high
hardness cooling
water, and serious
Scale problems and
the system can be
plugged off in one
year

SCALE | ZHONGYUAN OILFIELD NATURAL GAS STATION

Before the installation

SCALE | ZHONGYUAN OILFIELD NATURAL GAS STATION

One year after the installation

SCALE | ZHONGYUAN OILFIELD NATURAL GAS STATION

Two CPRS surface units installed

Weiqi-1& Weiqi-11 Natural Gas
Gathering Station, one for each
station
No scale buildup on the cylinder
cap, heat exchanger tube bundles
No maintenance for one year
65000 RMB saving on high pressure
jet clean cost every year
Stable discharging temperature

One year after the installation

SCALE | TARIM OILFIELD CRUDE FLOW LINES

Serious scale buildup in Tarim

Oilfield, for example, TZ163 Well
p r o d u c t i o n l i n e s c a l e i s s u e
averagely 3 cm scale deposit every
3 months.
The production lines have to be
acid cleaned periodically, but still
not as well as expected, which
influenced the production rate and
increased the production cost.

SCALE | TARIM OILFIELD CRUDE FLOW LINES

An Enmax 4X6 CPRS surface unit

was in installed on TZ163 production
line, in Sept, 2013
CPRS unit was installed on the
production lines underground.

SCALE | TARIM OILFIELD CRUDE FLOW LINES

Inspection & Performance Analysis

100 days after the CPRS unitTZ163
had been producing without any
problems.
O n J a n . , 3rd, 2 0 1 4 , F l a n g e
connections at 5 meters and 200
meters away after the CPRS unit were
opened for inspection, no scale
deposits at all.

Conclusion
After three month trial application,
CPRS did prevent scale buildup
successfully , which reached and
exceeded the oilfield expectation.

SCALE | TARIM OILFIELD CRUDE FLOW LINES

On the basis of success
in TZ163 Wellto
confirm the
repeatability of CPRS
performance, the same
units was removed and
installed on TZ4-755 well,
which is known to have
the worst scale issue.

SCALE | TARIM OILFIELD CRUDE FLOW LINES

At the end of trial

periodOn the
afternoon of May 11,
2015, the CPRS units
was opened on
TZ4-755 well for
inspection.

SCALE | TARIM OILFIELD CRUDE FLOW LINES

Again, no scale buildups, as

clean as shown in the left
photo.
The Chief Engineer, Mr. Yang
Wenbin, witnessed these two
trial test inspection.
Tarim Oil Field made a
decision to only use Enmax
CPRS for Tarim scale issue,
because this oilfield tried
some other method without
any success.

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GNPOC

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