Wax Deposition

From Lab to Field: How to avoid Wax deposition

What you will see on this webinar:

Wax deposition challenges in Production
Experimental challenges from fluid characterization to physically simulate wax formation and deposition
Numerical challenges model wax deposition / case study

Presented by:

Carolina Barreto

Business Development, ESSS O&G

Carolina Barreto holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and a Master’s Degree in Petroleum Engineering, from the University of Tulsa. Spanning over 10 years of professional experience in O&G, Carolina initially worked as a process engineer to later focus on petroleum production, in which the use of simulation for engineering applications became indispensable. Carolina has been working at ESSS since 2018 and is one of the responsible for testing and promoting the use of ESSS production and flow assurance tools in companies, research institutes and universities, as well as making sure that their development roadmap is aligned with users needs and the latest advances in O&G technology.

Charlie Van der Geest

Research Scientist, ALFA Research Group, UNICAMP

Dr. Charlie Van Der Geest holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, a Master’s and Doctor’s degree in Petroleum Engineering from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Charlie has over 8 years of professional and academic experience in O&G and has developed a significant amount of work on wax deposition related projects. He currently works as a Research Scientist at UNICAMP’s ALFA Research Group (Artificial Lift & Flow Assurance Research Group), focused on managing applied research projects and Flow Assurance, Multiphase Flow, Signal Processing and Nanotechnology projects from fundamental research to new technology development .