Oilfield Chemicals for Drilling, Production, and EOR
Surfa Solutions delivers high-performance chemical solutions for every stage of oilfield development — from drilling and completion to enhanced oil recovery and wastewater treatment. Reliable in harsh conditions, and compatible with global formulation standards.
Drilling & Completion Polymers
Application Scenarios
- Applicable to various mud systems and deep well operations, especially when drilling through clay or shale formations. Performs well in both freshwater and saltwater muds, including deep and ultra-deep wells.
Solution Overview
- Drilling fluid, also known as drilling mud, serves multiple functions including rock cutting, debris transport, bit lubrication and cooling, pressure balance, and wellbore protection. Maintaining optimal mud performance is essential for drilling speed and well safety — and polymers are key to that stability.
- Polyacrylamide solutions exhibit high viscosity, excellent thickening, flocculation, and rheology control. They are widely used as mud conditioners in oilfield operations. Surfa Solutions has developed a series of polymers tailored to different drilling and completion fluid systems to enhance overall performance.
Product Table
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Coating Agent
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Contains multiple functional groups; improves mud properties with inhibition, fluid loss reduction, lubrication, high-temperature resistance, calcium/magnesium tolerance, and salt resistance.
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All mud systems; suitable for deep well operations. |
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High-Temp Fluid Loss Reducer
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Polymerized with high-temperature-resistant monomers; offers thermal resistance, fluid loss reduction, viscosity enhancement, and shale inhibition. Effective up to 220–240 °C in saline and freshwater muds.
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Freshwater and saltwater muds in deep and ultra-deep wells.
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Potassium Polyacrylamide
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Enhances rheology, encapsulates cuttings, prevents formation of native mud, and stabilizes wellbore.
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Various mud systems, especially effective in shale formations.
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Polymer Solutions for Injection & Enhanced Oil Recovery
Application Scenarios
Designed for oil displacement and enhanced oil recovery (EOR) operations across diverse geological conditions, including:
- Deep profile control and water shutoff
- High-temperature, high-salinity reservoirs
- Low-permeability, medium–low, and medium–high permeability reservoirs
- Efficient oil displacement in low-permeability formations
- Injection pressure reduction and injection rate enhancement at single wells or water injection stations
- Steam injection wells for heavy oil, with zonal channeling control across different temperature and pressure zones
Solution Overview
- Polymer flooding is a key technology supporting sustained and stable oil production. It enhances recovery through a dual mechanism: expanding sweep efficiency at the macroscopic level and improving oil displacement at the microscopic level.
- High-molecular-weight polymers offer excellent water solubility and injectivity, strong shear resistance, high tolerance to salinity and mineralization, and good chemical and biological stability. Surfa Solutions has developed tailored polymer flooding systems for both conventional and low-permeability reservoirs.
- These polymers also exhibit selective flow behavior between oil and water. They preferentially enter high water-cut zones, adjust the water absorption profile within the formation, and seal large water-producing channels—effectively reducing water production while increasing oil output. This makes them an ideal choice for deep profile control and water shutoff operations.
Product Table
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Polymer Flooding Agent
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High-molecular-weight polymer with excellent solubility and injectivity; strong shear resistance, high salinity tolerance, and chemical stability; available in solid and liquid forms. |
Oil displacement operations across diverse geological conditions. |
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Profile Control & Water Shutoff Agent
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Can be crosslinked or combined with other materials to form interpenetrating polymer networks; high-temperature resistant.
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Deep profile control and water shutoff in oilfields. |
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High-Temp, High-Salinity Crosslinking PAM
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Temperature resistance ≤130°C; salinity ≤200,000 mg/L (Ca²⁺ + Mg²⁺ ≤20,000 mg/L); suitable for profile control and water shutoff.
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High-temperature, high-salinity reservoirs.
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Gel Dispersion System for Profile Control |
Temperature resistance ≤130°C; salinity ≤3,000,000 mg/L; effective for profile control in low to medium–high permeability reservoirs.
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Low, medium–low, and medium–high permeability reservoirs. |
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High-Temp, High-Salinity Gel Plugging Agent
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Nano-reinforced; temperature resistance up to 130°C; salinity tolerance 200,000 mg/L; calcium/magnesium tolerance up to 8,000 mg/L; high gel strength (G-grade).
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Profile control and water shutoff in oilfields.
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High-Efficiency Nano Active Oil Displacement Agent
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Temperature resistance <140°C; salinity ≤80,000 mg/L (Ca²⁺, Mg²⁺ ≤5,000 mg/L); enhances imbibition-driven oil recovery. |
Efficient oil displacement in low-permeability reservoirs. |
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Nano Injection Pressure Reduction Agent |
Temperature resistance ≤150°C; salinity ≤200,000 mg/L; improves injectivity in clay-rich formations.
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Injection pressure reduction and injection enhancement at single wells or injection stations.
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Steam Injection Channeling Control System for Heavy Oil
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Three system types designed for low-temperature (≤90°C), medium–high temperature (≤150°C), and near-well high-temperature zones (≤300°C).
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Channeling control in heavy oil steam injection wells across different temperature and pressure zones.
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Acidizing Product Series
Application Scenarios
- Used in formation stimulation techniques such as matrix acidizing and acid fracturing, applicable across carbonate and sandstone reservoirs.
Solution Overview
- Acidizing is one of the key methods to enhance oil and gas production by restoring or improving the permeability of formation rock. It works by dissolving pore-blocking substances and reacting with cementing materials within the rock matrix or fractures.
- By adding high-performance thickeners to acid systems, the viscosity of the acid is increased, slowing acid diffusion and extending its effective distance. This delays acid-rock reaction time, enhances fracture width, and improves acidizing efficiency — resulting in significantly increased permeability.
- Surfa Solutions offers a range of acidizing additives including advanced acid thickeners based on cationic homopolymers. These products are available as white amorphous granules or uniform emulsions, with high polymer conversion rates and molecular weights. They feature rapid solubility, high-temperature resistance, shear resistance, and excellent stability — making them ideal for both matrix acidizing and acid fracturing.
Product Table
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Regular Acid
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Suitable for acidizing and acid fracturing; can be combined with a small amount of gelling agent to reduce friction during fracturing.
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General acidizing and fracturing operations.
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VES Diverted Acid
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Enhances axial treatment efficiency, achieves uniform etching over long open-hole sections. |
Temperature ≤150°C. |
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Solid Acid / Self-Generating Acid
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Suitable for situations where conventional hydrochloric acid is difficult to store or transport. |
Temperature ≤200°C. |
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Gelled Acid
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Controls fluid loss and creates dominant etched fractures during acid fracturing.
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Temperature ≤140°C.
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Crosslinked Acid |
Enhanced fluid loss control; can be used with proppants to form strong etched channels.
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Temperature ≤180–200°C.
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Fracturing Enhancement Series
Application Scenarios
- Designed for various hydraulic fracturing operations requiring rapid dissolution, high viscosity, or salt-resistant performance — including high TDS water environments such as formation water, seawater, and flowback fluids.
Solution Overview
- Hydraulic fracturing enhances oil and gas production by injecting viscous fluids into the formation at high pressure, creating fractures that improve permeability. As the industry evolves from guar-based systems to advanced polymer additives, Surfa Solutions offers tailored friction reducers and thickeners compatible with diverse water qualities and well conditions — from conventional vertical wells to high-rate horizontal multistage operations.
- These formulations are suitable for use with groundwater, rivers, lakes, flowback fluids, seawater, and high salinity brines.
Friction Reducers
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Powdered FR
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Linear high molecular weight polymer; ultra-fine powder (dissolves in 3 min); high drag reduction.
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Fast-dissolving scenarios in fracturing jobs. |
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Oil-in-water FR
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Rapid viscosity build-up (~30 sec); high viscosity and high drag reduction.
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High-viscosity fracturing jobs. |
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Water-in-water FR
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Strong salt tolerance, ultra-fast thickening (~20 sec), high drag reduction, low cost. |
Fracturing with high TDS water.
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Suspension-type FR
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High viscosity, no fisheyes, dust-free, quick dissolve (1 min), high solid content.
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Rapid on-site mixing under environmental constraints.
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Thickeners
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High-Efficiency Emulsion (BCBP) |
Contains linear, branched, and hydrophobically associating segments; salt- and temperature-resistant; quick dissolution. |
All types of fracturing, across varied water salinity.
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Water-Based Suspension
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Hydrophilic solvent, eco-friendly, stable suspension, low residue post-break, 45% actives, quick dissolution, high drag reduction.
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Freshwater and low TDS environments. |
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Oil-Based Suspension
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Stable under high salinity; fast dissolution; strong sand-suspension when crosslinked.
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High-salinity fracturing, suitable for large fracture networks.
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High-Viscosity Oil-Based Suspension
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Very high viscosity, rapid dissolution, excellent sand-suspension, high stability.
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High-rate, high-volume slickwater fracturing.
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Instant Ultra-Fine Powder
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High MW polymer, dissolves rapidly (<125μm), crosslinkable, temp ≤120°C, salinity ≤100,000 ppm.
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On-the-fly dry powder systems, mid- to low-temp reservoirs. |
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Salt-Resistant Ultra-Fine Powder
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High salt tolerance; high viscosity in brines; temp ≤150°C, salinity ≤200,000 ppm.
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High-salinity and high-temperature environments.
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Marine-Grade High-Temp Product
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Compatible with seawater; fast dissolution; temp tolerance up to 160°C; crosslinkable.
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Offshore platform operations.
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Flowback-Compatible Reuse Product
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Designed for reuse with flowback fluids; strong crosslinking, complete break, low residue.
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Environmental scenarios using high-TDS recycled fluids.
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Wastewater Treatment Series
Application Scenarios
- Used for treating various oilfield wastewaters including drilling waste, fracturing flowback, acidizing waste, and produced water.
Solution Overview
- Oilfield operations produce large volumes of complex wastewater that require efficient treatment to meet environmental and operational standards. Surfa Solutions offers organic high-efficiency cationic polymer flocculants in both solid and emulsion forms. These products rapidly aggregate suspended particles, delivering fast clarification and strong purification performance. When combined with inorganic flocculants, their effects are further enhanced.
- Thanks to their active functional groups, these flocculants also offer decolorization, adsorption, and binding capabilities. Their excellent water solubility, low required dosage, and stable performance make them ideal for field application.
Featured Products
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High-Efficiency Organic Polymer Flocculant
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Rapid flocculation, effective clarification, strong synergy with inorganic coagulants, good water solubility, low dosage, stable performance.
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Drilling wastewater, fracturing flowback, acidizing waste, produced water.
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Applications
- Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)
- Demulsification
- Corrosion Inhibition
- Drilling and Completion Fluids
- Scale, Asphaltene, and Paraffin Control
- Fracturing Additives and Wetting Agents
Compliance
- Full documentation: COA, SDS, REACH, etc.
- Product consistency and batch traceability
- Lab-scale evaluation samples and field support
- Global export experience and multilingual coordination
Why Work with Surfa Solutions
We speak your language technically, logistically, and commercially.
Deep portfolio of oilfield-ready surfactants
OEM, private label, and formulation flexibility
Supply stability through a 120,000-ton manufacturing network
