Environmentally friendly antiagglomerants: a promising solution for gas hydrate plugging and corrosion risk management in oil and gas pipelines

C Tang, Z Chen, A Farhadian, D Iravani, C Chen… - Energy & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Gas hydrates pose a serious flow assurance challenge due to their ability to form,
agglomerate, and block subsea flowlines on relatively fast time scales, leading to the loss of …

Dual function of lecithin as an environmentally-friendly inhibitor of hydrate agglomeration and adhesion to the pipe in gas hydrate production

X Zhao, X Zhang, S Li, Q Fang, Z Qiu, Z Wang - Fuel, 2024 - Elsevier
Hydrate plugging pipes is one of the main technical problems in the development of marine
natural gas hydrates, and the existing hydrate inhibitors cannot solve this problem in an …

Effects of wax on the formation of methane hydrate in oil-dominate systems: Experiments and molecular dynamics simulations

L Wang, X Zheng, P ** and screening economical, efficient, and environmentally friendly anti-
agglomerants (AAs) to address obstructions caused by hydrate formation and agglomeration …

Potential kinetic effects of wax on clathrate hydrate formation: A review

J **g, H Yang, J Sun, J Tan - Geoenergy Science and Engineering, 2025 - Elsevier
Waxes and hydrates may coexist in oil-gas-water multiphase mixed transport pipelines.
They all occur at low temperatures and may have kinetic influences mutually. The impact of …

Wax appearance temperature under shear in methane-saturated mineral oil+ paraffin wax mixtures: Effects of concentration and pressure

S Helsper, MW Liberatore - Fuel, 2024 - Elsevier
Increasing oil production from cold environments, such as offshore deep-water, has resulted
in flow assurance issues due to wax deposition and hydrate formation. Understanding of the …