As Canadian producers prepare for fall, operational teams are busy with maintenance and turnaround activities, including plant shutdowns and well abandonments. Effective coordination and reliable supply chains are essential, as delays in securing solvents and diluents can result in costly downtime. In Western Canada’s fast-paced fall season, every minute counts.
The Seasonal Maintenance Challenge
Producers face common challenges, including thick oil hindering production, paraffin clogging flowlines, and costly, impractical hot oil treatments.
Plant Turnarounds: Cut Shutdown Timelines Without Cutting Corners
Turnarounds are essential for plant safety and efficiency, but require tight schedules and resource management. Delays in obtaining cleaning fluids or flush solutions can extend shutdowns and increase costs.
- Enerchem offers high-performance solvents that quickly and effectively clean and degrease systems. This helps operators reduce shutdown delays and keep maintenance teams on schedule. Our local blending allows us to create specific solutions for different applications, such as tank cleaning and pipework flushing, ensuring a reliable regional supply.
Pipeline Pigging: Stop Wax Build-Up Before It Stops You.
Pipelines carrying crude oil, bitumen, and condensates are prone to wax and asphaltene buildup. Large deposits can cause pigs to push blockages downstream instead of clearing them. Without proper diluents and solvents for pigging, the risk of blockages and damage to infrastructure increases.
- Enerchem provides formulas for solvents and diluents that dissolve waxes and asphaltenes. This helps lower pour points and stabilize viscosity, allowing products to flow easily. The quick-evaporating hydrocarbons support drying after cleaning, ensuring that pigging programs are effective and last longer. Enerchem’s solvent and diluent formulas dissolve waxes and stabilize viscosity, keeping flowlines open even in cold conditions.
Well Abandonments: Meeting AER Timelines Without Overruns.
Operators are facing rising regulatory pressures to meet AER timelines and closure quotas for abandonment projects. These projects need safe flushing fluids, reliable cleaning solvents, and logistical support, often in remote or winter-challenged areas. Cost overruns and fluid supply bottlenecks are common risks.
- At Enerchem, we help with supply solutions for projects, whether they involve a single well or a full program. We provide the right amount of solvents for cleaning tubing, casing, and the wellbore. Our reliable distribution reaches remote areas, allowing operators to reduce downtime, control costs, and confidently meet closure deadlines. From single wells to full-scale programs, Enerchem provides scalable solvent supply and remote logistics support.
Enerchem’s solvents have been shown to reduce paraffin buildup significantly decreasing pigging downtime. Operators using Enerchem solvents report quicker cleaning cycles and fewer repeat treatments.
Book your solvent supply today and ensure your fall maintenance projects stay on schedule.
Enerchem Partnership’s Proven Solutions
For over 30 years, Enerchem Partnership has manufactured high-quality hydrocarbon-based solvents in Western Canada. With two Alberta-based production facilities located in Slave Lake and Sundre, Alberta and integrated logistics support through Petrogas Logistic Partnership, Enerchem ensures producers have reliable access to the right products, exactly when needed.
The Bottom Line
Enerchem Partnership’s solvent range is crafted to lower viscosity, enhance solubility, and prevent the costly buildup of asphaltenes and waxes, empowering upstream operations to thrive. From pipeline pigging and abandonments to plant turnarounds and tank cleaning, producers across Western Canada trust Enerchem to ensure their operations run smoothly, safely, and efficiently.
As the fall maintenance season unfolds, the right solvent solutions can transform potential downtime into a successful turnaround. Enerchem’s blend of technical excellence, local manufacturing, and secure logistics makes it a trusted partner for Western Canadian producers on their journey to success.