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Winning your Winter Campaign

Keeping your production flowing during the winter can be a challenge. Thanks to innovative chemistry and service, Baker Hughes is able to help you handle winter problems more easily than ever. Our winterized treatment options offer you a "no freeze" assurance policy for every cold season. We deliver the smart choices to improve your cold-season production revenues.

Inhibiting Paraffin When Temperatures - and Productivity - Plunge

As temperatures plunge from the Rockies to Russia, wax problems snowball. Increased mechanical interventions, decreased production, and even stopped production mean lost revenue. Baker Hughes winterized paraffin inhibitors are just one of the latest advances in chemical services that can help you win your winter campaign. Our specially formulated high-activity winterized paraffin inhibitor dispersions are specially designed for cold weather applications, even down to -40°F.

Down time will be substantially reduced
Production won't be deferred

Effective Hydrate Inhibition for Winter Operations - Keep Production Rates Up

You already know that hydrate formation is a big challenge when you're producing gas. You also know that hydrate inhibition just plain gets tougher - and more expensive - when temperatures plunge. Baker Hughes helps you avoid the problems associated with winter-time hydrate formation. We combine advances in chemical technology with an optimized treatment program that helps you keep natural gas flowing safely and more economically in low-temperature months.

Our hydrate treatment programs help you: