Heavy crude oils continue to be a challenge to dehydrate for the Oil & Gas Industry. The traditional remedy to the reduced oil / water density difference, higher crude oil viscosity and often smaller water droplets due to heavy crude oil production techniques, often leads to high operating temperatures, fouling, production upsets, very large treaters and dosage of large volumes of demulsifier chemicaals. This leads to both higher OPEX as well as higher CAPEX.
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