Many major oil producers have formed strategic alliances with service and materials suppliers. Successfully conducting business through alliances requires a continuous flow of communication and trust between the alliance partners. This paper describes an alliance-team field project addressing operational complications caused by iron sulfide (FeS) fouling in the low-pressure gas production of the Texas Panhandle. The focus is on how a cooperative alliance facilitated enacting a downhole chemical corrosion inhibition program and inspired “Sticky Coupon” design and development for surface qualitative interpretation of FeS contamination in the gas stream.

Subject
Gas production, Iron sulfides, Wiring, Wellheads, Trucks, Fluids, Inhibitor treatment, Corrosion inhibitors, Equipment, Well casings, Corrosion coupons, Fouling, Coupons
Keywords:
alliances, “sticky coupon”, inhibition, gas wells, iron sulfide, wellhead compression
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1997
Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP)
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