Clariant opens laboratory in Houston

The laboratory is part of a global Clariant initiative to expand HTE capabilities to all Clariant Business Units, including direct support for oil services in North America, the Asia Pacific region, Latin America, Africa and the North Sea.

“This is an exciting, and unique, new offering for the oil and gas industry, and, being in such close proximity to so many customers, means that we can offer superior, faster service,” said Jonathan Wylde, Head of Innovation and Application Development Clariant Oil and Mining Services. “With our state-of-the-art equipment in the lab, advanced research concepts, and potential customisation for specific projects, our researchers are now able to identify new formulations and synergistic blends for specific customer crudes, ultimately reducing the time to market for new products.”

As a new addition to the existing laboratory located at Clariant Oil Services Headquarters, Clariant specialist chemists and innovation experts are now able to use miniaturisation, parallelisation, intelligent design and enhanced analytics – all proven to increase efficiency and productivity. The facility will help to meet current and outstanding needs in the oil and gas industry, with special emphasis on pour point depressants, hydrate inhibitors, asphaltene inhibitors, corrosion inhibitors and scale inhibitors.

“Static environments, like factory assembly lines, are easy to automate. In contrast, an R&D environment requires a special solution to keep pace with its dynamic nature,” said Lucius Kemp, Clariant’s Global Head of High Throughput Experimentation, Group Technology and Innovation. “One must have a highly flexible concept with very short integration times to reach automated efficiency. As a global leader in the field, we have designed our HTE lab with ‘standardised flexibility’ to achieve this.”

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