EP Energy Corporation  has selected Integrated Environmental Technologies (IET) to provide Excelyte well maintenance treatments on EP’s oil and gas wells in the United States.
IET plans to expand Excelyte well maintenance treatments to additional EP oil wells in the Uinta Basin. Over the next sixty days, the company will use Excelyte technology on additional EP wells in the Western Gulf Basin (Eagle Ford Shale) and the Permian Basin (Wolfcamp Shale).
Excelyte is tested and proven as an effective biocide and hydrogen sulfide eliminator and was more cost effective than competing products, the company said.
David LaVance, the Company’s president and chief executive officer, said, Excelyte oil well maintenance treatments in the Uinta, Permian and Western Gulf Basins represent an annual market opportunity in excess of $350 million.
Hydrogen sulfide is a toxic and corrosive chemical that frequently appears in oil and gas production.  Excelyte acts as a biocide and as a hydrogen sulfide eliminator/scavenger that kills sulfate-reducing bacteria, which are known to produce hydrogen sulfide.
Excelyte treatments on oil production wells are designed to contain bacteria that corrode well equipment and well linings; contain bacteria that can sour the oil produced; and/or test positive for hydrogen sulfide, the company said.
Rajani Baburajan