Oil & Gas
WACKER’s comprehensive portfolio of versatile silicone-based products for the oil and gas processing industry spans its many phases, from exploration and drilling to refining. With our excellent service, product customization and worldwide hands-on technical support, we offer solutions that meet all of your application needs.
WACKER’s innovative additive line is engineered to meet the performance needs of downhole cement, both during installation and thereafter. Our silicone-based materials are ideal for defoaming cementitious materials and enhance the overall physical performance of the cement. This translates into higher-integrity cement, less failure potential and longer term durability. During mixing of the cement slurry, the presence of essential additives, such as fluid loss additives, and anti-settling agents can result in the generation of foam and in air entrapment, leading to pump cavitation, density issues, poor mixing and integrity problems. WACKER’s SILFOAM® defoamers provide effective solutions, performing with improved efficiency under severe environmental conditions. SILFOAM® defoamers offer superior performance as knock-down agents and in long-term antifoaming. WACKER’s wide range of products contribute to an improved overall performance of the cement, by improving its hydrophobicity and bulk physical properties.
Benefits:
- Economical use
- Easy to process
- Versatile
- Tailored to customer needs
- Ready-to-use
Applications:
- Defoaming processes during cementing
The choice of additive is critical to your drilling process and to profitability. WACKER’s broad line of proven products are exactly tuned to the demands of drilling processes. Our products – ranging from defoamers and lubricating additives to innovative solutions targeting shale stabilization – are engineered to improve throughput and drilling efficiency. WACKER’s SILFOAM® silicone defoamers are effective in the ever-changing environments of today’s drilling sites. The diversity of SILFOAM® defoamers address the variations in temperature and storage that often occur due to environmental differences. WACKER’s innovative products address issues associated with drilling into shale formations, while contributing to environmentally friendly drilling systems.
Benefits:
- Economical use
- Easy to process
- Versatile
- Tailored to customer needs
- Ready-to-use
Applications:
- Defoaming processes during drilling
WACKER products comply with the petroleum industry's requirements for reliable, high-quality products and economic production methods. Our products include those in the innovative and environmentally friendly silicone-based SILFOAM® product line. SILFOAM® controls and regulates foam formation, ensuring the reliable and effective production and processing of oil and gas. The demulsifiers and surfactants of the WACKER® SG series were developed for wells with high-performance demands that currently cannot be met by standard products. The WACKER® SG series can be used alone (100 percent active) or for boosting processes subject to harsher conditions, and at improved efficiencies.
Benefits SILFOAM®:
- Economical use
- Easy to process
- Versatile
- Tailored to customer needs
- Ready-to-use
Benefits WACKER® SG:
- Improved efficiency
Applications:
- Demulsifying (oil)
- Defoaming (oil, gas)
- Production (oil, gas)
WACKER silicone products are the ideal solution to the challenges posed by the extreme operating conditions that characterize the refining process. Our SILFOAM® defoamers and WACKER® AK fluids offer the performance and efficiency that help in keeping refining processes operational and throughput as high as possible. With our comprehensive selection of products geared to the oil and gas industry, the ability to deliver these products in multiple forms, and our technical expertise in their effective use, WACKER is the ideal partner to service your range of needs.
Benefits SILFOAM®:
- Economical use
- Easy to process
- Versatile
- Tailored to customer needs
- Ready-to-use
Applications:
- Defoaming (oil, gas)
- Refining
Resin-coated proppants are an integral part of the overall success of hydraulic fracturing, but their performance must be optimized to facilitate higher and longer-term conductivity. WACKER's broad and comprehensive line of silicone-based products enhances the critical performance characteristics of resin-coated proppants. These characteristics include adhesion promotion, resin modification and processing support. Given the ever-changing environmentally related conditions, our focus is on critical performance features and the development of innovative solutions addressing crush performance, pack life and fines. WACKER offers a complete selection of products with diverse capabilities and targeting different functions to meet current and future technology needs.
Benefits:
- Ready-to-use
- Solvent-free
- Fast curing
- Low content of volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
Applications:
- Proppant coating