Downhole Heating

 

Downhole heating requirements have be satisfied for over 20 years, using PetroTraceTM cables in applications to prevent the production losses resulting from paraffin deposits and hydrate formation in the production tube, as well as to improve production of heavy oils by lowering their viscosity


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Downhole Heating

Downhole heating systems compensate for the heat losses to the surrounding formation in the upper part of the production string, where they are highest.

Production tube heating can be your economic alternative to other paraffin handling methods such as hot oil treatment, mechanical scraping, chemical additive injection and steam injection.

Tyco Thermal Controls provides you with oil well temperature profiles comparing heated and unheated production tubes using local reservoir conditions, thus enabling maximized design efficiency and establishing an investment payback time frame.

Through rigorous modeling simulations, Tyco Thermal Controls accurately predicts well flow conditions, thus enabling an optimized heating system design for maximum economic benefit and investment payback.



Modeling shows addition of heat maintains fluid above the wax appearance temperature

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Downhole Heating
PetroTraceTM downhole heating cables are used where a thermal solution is required to heat the production tube sufficiently to control hydrate formation, paraffin deposition and low flow conditions due to high viscosity

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