Oil Field Applications
Core Technology
Homopolymers and copolymers of AMPS® monomer are used in many oil field applications where hostile environments demand high-performance products. In addition to its exceptional thermal and hydrolytic stability, characteristics, such as its hydrophilic nature, a tendency to increase viscosity and its divalent cation stability, help make AMPS monomer an ideal solution for many oil field operations.
- In drilling oerations where conditions of high salinity, high temperature and high pressure are present, AMPS copolymers are used successfully to inhibit fluid loss.
- In cementing operations within deep, high temperature wells, AMPS copolymers are used as nonretarding fluid loss control agents.
- AMPS copolymers also are used in oil field environments as scale inhibitors, friction reducers and water-control polymers, and in polymer flooding applications.