Chemical Solutions for Oilfield Service Companies
Whether you're cleaning tanks and process equipment, or dewaxing wells,
we provide solutions to enhance production and tackle your clients' toughest challenges.
'Off the Shelf' Solutions Can’t Meet the Toughest Oil and Gas Field Challenges
It’s your job to keep your clients operating at peak production. But fouling, oxidation, process system corrosion, and gas contamination are all unavoidable aspects of all oil production, and their impact on production can cost thousands daily. The problem is, as common as these issues are, they are all caused by circumstances unique to the field situation. There are one-size-fits-all solutions, but unlike customized chemistry, they can cause expensive downtime and your customers are always on the lookout for someone who can deliver better results. You need fast, effective chemistry to keep up with your competitors.
Customized Solutions to Keep You Competitive
Combining science & service for unparalleled solutions
When you look for a chemical partner, you want someone who can do more than simply fill an order. You want someone to investigate the unique hurdles you’re facing and create customized solutions that deliver on your expectations. With high-quality oilfield chemicals and other practical solutions, Guardian Chemicals has built a strong reputation as a reliable partner in production optimization, customized programs, and returns on investment.
Solutions
Cleaning & Degreasing
Keeping your equipment clean and in working order is a full-time job. When things aren’t clean, they aren’t performing as they should be, which is why we use our years of industry expertise and field visits to create custom solutions that get things cleaner, faster. Our high flashpoint cleaners and degreasers will ensure your equipment is cleared of contamination and in working order for insurance inspections, warranty inspections, or as part of a preventative maintenance program.
Oil & Gas Production Enhancement
Scavengers
Vapor phase cleaning is an in-demand service, and being able to reduce HSE risk quickly and effectively, as safely possible, puts you at a competitive edge. We have a suite of solutions and a proven track record that you can trust, which include innovative programs for natural gas and oilfield applications.
Metal Prep
In preparing metal components for return to the field, efficacy and safety are of top concern. Parts washers and hot tanks require customized solutions to meet your needs. Our metal preparation chemical solutions include innovative blends of high-performance surfactants, alkalinity boosters, water conditioning agents, and corrosion inhibitors. We craft solutions to meet your unique challenges and can also assist with application and disposal.
Water Treatment
Water is a critical part of many production systems. We offer an extensive line of coagulants and flocculants for well cleanouts and produced water, and to clear suspended solids in aqueous solutions and sludge dewatering. We also have chemicals critical to the maintenance of oilfield steam boilers (rig boilers) that effectively control scale and corrosion.
Defoamers
Foam is an inconvenient byproduct of many industrial processes. We have a developed a range of products that quickly and effectively disperse foam, or can minimize foam before its created.
Sanitizing & Disinfecting
It’s more important than ever to ensure you’re taking steps to protect the health and well-being of your workers
from the visible and invisible bacteria, fungi, and other contaminants that can linger for days in the right environment. Guardian’s wide variety of solutions include several registered with Health Canada. All our hard surface cleaners, sanitizers, and disinfectants are made to ensure the cleanliness of contaminated surfaces.
We’re Here to Help You Get Ahead
At Guardian Chemicals, we bring unprecedented industry expertise and service to transform your oilfield services.
From conventional oil and gas production to SAGD production and processing, we understand the intricacies of the industry and how important pioneering faster-working, more effective chemistry is. To do that, we analyze all the factors that create challenges and deliver solutions, training, and regular re-evaluations that ensure you’re getting the best results.
Some of these solutions include:
- Wax crystal structure modifiers to prevent paraffins from forming a deposit
- Solvents and dispersants which keep the wax solids suspended in produced fluids
- Pipeline and downhole cleanout surfactants
- Asphaltene removal products
- Formulations for the removal of iron sulphide that reduces system fouling and under deposit corrosion, without releasing hydrogen sulphide from the complex
- Flowline jetting and clearing solutions that reduce flow line obstructions and increase flow rates
Related case studies
Service companies in Texas: see oilfield chemicals for West Texas, stocked in Lubbock. In the Athabasca region: Fort McMurray.
We don’t believe in ‘deliver-and-done’. True benefits revolve around the consistency of program execution, which is why we’re there when you need us both for regular servicing and emergency support for life.
Our experts know your industry and will seek to understand the unique challenges of your business. Let’s talk.
Your systems and processes are interconnected. We’ll arrange a site visit to understand the bigger picture.
Frequently Asked Questions About Chemical Solutions for Oilfield Services
Cleaners and degreasers, production enhancement chemistry, hydrogen sulphide scavengers, metal preparation, water treatment, defoamers, and sanitation chemistry, usually as a package they carry to client sites. The buying decision is different from an operator’s because consistency and availability matter as much as performance.
Because you are committing to a client’s schedule with chemistry you do not control the supply of. A missed delivery is not an inconvenience, it is a job you cannot execute and a client relationship you have to explain yourself to. Planned stocking against your work programme is worth more than a lower unit price.
Talk to us about the arrangement you need. We manufacture our own chemistry, which gives more flexibility on formulation, packaging and supply arrangements than a distributor relationship does.
We handle that process with you. We hold product approvals at major sites, and where a product is not yet on a client’s approved list we work directly with their EHS group to have it assessed. Chasing a site approval mid-job is avoidable with lead time.
Direct access to our technical people and our lab. Deposit and fluid analysis, bench screening against the actual sample, and someone available to work through it with your field crew. Most problems on a job are a mismatch between the chemistry and what is actually in the equipment.
Yes, through our BrightShield process, and it works well as a sales tool for service companies. An audit establishes the client’s baseline and objectives, lab analysis identifies the foulant, chemistry is screened against it, and a validation report afterward documents the result. Being able to propose a measured outcome differentiates a bid.
We formulate for Canadian field conditions, which means products that stay pourable and effective at low ambient and survive freeze-thaw in a truck. For remote work, we plan stocking around your programme rather than relying on emergency freight.
Yes. We manufacture in Sturgeon County, Alberta, and in Kissimmee, Florida, with a stocking point serving the Texas market. Service companies working both sides of the border get the same products with domestic manufacturing in each country.
Foulant and fluid analysis, bench screening of candidate chemistry against a client’s actual sample with the incumbent product as a comparison, and reporting on our letterhead that you can put in front of your client. That third-party analysis is often what moves a proposal from an opinion to a recommendation.
Trust a chemical partner who can help you stand out from the crowd.
