Kalrez® O-Rings and Seals

Oil and Gas Industries

Kalrez® Has What It Takes In Harsh Field Environments

Kalrez® seals stand up to severe down-hole conditions from high pressures and temperatures, to aggressive sour gas and corrosive fluids. Down-hole conditions can deteriorate elastomers rapidly. Blistering heat, corrosive fluids and toxic gases can destroy the physical properties and sealing performance of other materials. Even under extreme conditions of pressure, heat and manmade chemicals, Kalrez® seals have held up and remained virtually unchanged. Kalrez® has been field-proven across the industry in such applications as:

• Tubing-to-packer seals
• Subsurface safety valves
• Logging boots
• Casing tie-back seals
• Survey tool seals
• Slip-joint seals

Kalrez® is offered in standard or specialty compounds that have been formulated to optimize properties and give the best performance in specific applications.

Technical Information:

Kalrez® seals are a lot less expensive than the cost of downhole seal failure

With over 2,000 wells, the records show it: no well has ever had to be reworked because a Kalrez® V-ring failed. Even under torturous conditions of pressure, heat, and man-made chemicals, Kalrez® perfluoroelastomer seals have held up and remain virtually unchanged.

When a seal failure in a 3048-m (10,000-ft) well can mean a $100,000 rework, why trust anything less than the proven performance of Kalrez® perfluoroelastomer seals?

Kalrez® Protects When Downhole Conditions Deteriorate

Downhole conditions can deteriorate rapidly. Blistering heat, corrosive fluids, and toxic gases can destroy the physical properties and sealing performance of other materials. Only Kalrez® combines the resilience and sealing force of rubber with the chemical inertness and thermal stability associated with Teflon®. Kalrez® seals resist attack by all well fluids and additives: hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide, brine, sulfuric and hydrochloric acids, amine-based corrosion inhibitors, and solvents including benzene, toluene, acetone, high-aromatic hydrocarbons, and methanol.

Even under grueling long-term service, with temperatures to 260°C (500°F), Kalrez® parts resist swelling, blistering, and embrittlement. To date, over 50,000 Kalrez® V-rings have withstood severe downhole stresses without reported failure. That’s Kalrez® reliability.

On your next completion, specify Kalrez®---the seal that is good for the life of your well.

Downhole Conditions Change, but Kalrez® Seals Don’t

Inside a well, the only constant thing is change. Because they have no active hydrogen, Kalrez® parts successfully resist thermal and chemical fluctuations that cause lesser elastomers to fail . DuPont Performance Elastomers Kalrez® is perfluorinated---completely protected by inert fluorine atoms. Nothing reacts with it.

Common fluoroelastomers have active hydrogen atoms. Under hostile conditions, hydrogen reacts with other elements, gradually degrading the seal. Kalrez® perfluoroelastomer seals stand up to severe downhole conditions. No chemical or thermal degradation of sealing parts means no loss of sealing reliability.

Because environmental conditions change over the life of a well, specify the seal that doesn’t change---Kalrez®.

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