{"id":280535,"date":"2026-06-24T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/clariant-achieves-north-sea-breakthrough-with-ospar-compliant-low-dosage-hydrate-inhibitor-technology\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T10:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T14:40:09","slug":"clariant-achieves-north-sea-breakthrough-with-ospar-compliant-low-dosage-hydrate-inhibitor-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/clariant-achieves-north-sea-breakthrough-with-ospar-compliant-low-dosage-hydrate-inhibitor-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Clariant achieves North Sea breakthrough with OSPAR-compliant low-dosage hydrate inhibitor technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clariant.com\/en\/Corporate\/News\/2026\/06\/Clariant-achieves-North-Sea-breakthrough-with-OSPARcompliant-lowdosage-hydrate-inhibitor-technology\">Clariant achieves North Sea breakthrough with OSPAR-compliant low-dosage hydrate inhibitor technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clariant.com\/en\/Corporate\/News\/2026\/06\/Clariant-achieves-North-Sea-breakthrough-with-OSPARcompliant-lowdosage-hydrate-inhibitor-technology\">https:\/\/www.clariant.com\/en\/Corporate\/News\/2026\/06\/Clariant-achieves-North-Sea-breakthrough-with-OSPARcompliant-lowdosage-hydrate-inhibitor-technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-24 10:28:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.clariant.com\">www.clariant.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First anti-agglomerant hydrate management technology of its kind to meet stringent OSPAR environmental requirements for North Sea operations.<\/li>\n<li>Delivers effective hydrate control at a fraction of the dosage required by conventional methanol or monoethylene glycol-based treatment programs, helping reduce offshore logistics and operational complexity.<\/li>\n<li>Successfully deployed in offshore Norway and the United Kingdom, demonstrating performance under challenging high-water-cut and deepwater operating conditions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>MUTTENZ, June 24, 2026 &#8211; Clariant Oil Services today announced the successful offshore deployment of HYTREAT\u2122 ECO, an anti-agglomerant low dosage hydrate inhibitor (LDHI-AA) technology that satisfies both the performance demands of deepwater hydrate management and OSPAR&#8217;s stringent North Sea environmental requirements. Proven in offshore fields in both Norway and the United Kingdom, the technology represents a significant advancement in offshore flow assurance, enabling operators to reduce chemical consumption while maintaining reliable hydrate control in some of the world&#8217;s most demanding deepwater environments.<\/p>\n<p>Gas hydrate formation remains one of the most technically and operationally challenging flow assurance issues in subsea oil and gas production. Under high-pressure, low-temperature conditions, hydrates can form ice-like blockages that threaten production and asset integrity. Operators in the North Sea have traditionally relied on large volumes of methanol or monoethylene glycol (MEG) to prevent hydrate formation, creating significant logistical and environmental burdens.<\/p>\n<p>Clariant&#8217;s technology keeps hydrate particles dispersed and flowing through production systems, delivering reliable flow assurance at dosage rates that, in the North Sea field trials, ranged from less than 1% to 2% by volume on water, an order of magnitude lower than conventional methanol or MEG treatment programs. The result is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clariant.com\/en\/Corporate\/News\/2026\/06\/Clariant-achieves-North-Sea-breakthrough-with-OSPARcompliant-lowdosage-hydrate-inhibitor-technology\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clariant achieves North Sea breakthrough with OSPAR-compliant low-dosage hydrate inhibitor technology https:\/\/www.clariant.com\/en\/Corporate\/News\/2026\/06\/Clariant-achieves-North-Sea-breakthrough-with-OSPARcompliant-lowdosage-hydrate-inhibitor-technology Publish Date: 2026-06-24&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":280538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.clariant.com\/-\/media\/Images\/Clariant\/News\/2026\/06\/13836_medium_CLAPR2027a_52121224_en_jpg.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-280535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280540,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280535\/revisions\/280540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}