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Corrosion represents a major problem in the flow assurance for the oil and gas industry. Carbon steel has been extensively used in oil and gas industry due to its cost-effectiveness, availability, strength, high durability and ductility. However, one of the biggest disadvantages of steel is highly susceptible to corrosion in the aggressive environments. Most of corrosion inhibitors are toxic, non-biodegradable and non-eco-friendly in nature, thus development of inhibitors based on natural resources are needed. In ...

The oil and gas industry faces problems such as hydrates, waxes, corrosion and asphaltenes, which among them the formation of hydrates is one of the most serious problems.Gas hydrates include water and light gas molecules and the form at low temperatures and high pressures, as these conditions are available inside the oil and gas pipelines. They are responsible for the blockage of flow lines, valves and well heads, thereby causing great loss of production and other severe safety hazards to the oil and gas industry...

Formation of gas hydrates is a problem in the petroleum industry where the gas hydrates are responsible for the blockage of flow lines, valves and well heads, thereby causing great loss of production and other severe safety hazards to the oil and gas industry. This topic is the most challenging subject in flow assurance problems in oil and gas industry. Kinetic hydrate inhibitors (KHIs) are water-soluble polymers that are used to prevent gas hydrate blockages and they have been used in the field successfully. In t...

Surfactant flooding is a significant method used in enhanced oil recovery to reduce the amount of oil in pore space of matrix rock. These materials are injected to mobilize heavy oil by lowering the interfacial tension between oil and water and/or by the wettability alteration from oil-wet to water-wet. A various of cationic, anionic, non-ionic, and amphoteric surfactants have been studied. Although surfactant/polymer flooding is one of the most promising methods available to recover residual and remaining oil, it...