Oil & Gas

Ascent’s Betaines are amphoteric co-surfactants that enhance foam, improve wetting, and support viscosity building when paired with anionics. They deliver mild cleansing performance and maintain stability in acidic or alkaline systems, making them useful in personal care products, vehicle care, hard surface cleaners, and other formulations that benefit from gentle yet effective surfactancy.

Ascent Chemicals' Dioctyl Sulfosuccinates are high-efficiency anionic surfactants known for outstanding wetting, emulsifying, and dispersing power. Their fast action, low foam profile, and broad solvent compatibility make them versatile additives in demanding formulations across markets such as agriculture, metalworking, textiles, and industrial processing. These DOSS grades deliver strong performance even at low use levels, supporting efficient, high-performing systems.

Ascent Chemicals’ Phosphated Esters are anionic surfactants that improve wetting, emulsification, and oil–solvent coupling. They remain stable across wide pH and electrolyte ranges and provide natural corrosion-inhibiting benefits. Their versatility makes them valuable in metalworking fluids, industrial and acid cleaners, and systems requiring antistatic control or pigment dispersion.

Ascent Chemicals’ Sulfated and Sulfonated surfactants provide fast wetting, strong detergency, and reliable soil dispersion across a wide range of conditions. Their balanced foaming profiles and tolerance to water hardness make them adaptable to industries such as textiles, metalworking, oil and gas, agriculture, and institutional cleaning. These versatile surfactants support efficient formulation of cleaners, emulsifiers, dispersants, and process aids in demanding environments.

Ascent Chemicals’ Sulfated Specialties are customizable sulfate surfactants designed for fast wetting, strong detergency, and rich foam. Their adjustable chain lengths and EO levels allow formulators to fine-tune solubility, viscosity, and performance across a wide range of systems. These surfactants support applications from industrial and institutional cleaning to textiles, vehicle wash, agricultural adjuvants, and general-purpose degreasing, offering a flexible way to meet specific wetting and cleaning targets.

Ascent Chemicals’ Corrosion Inhibitors protect metal surfaces by forming durable adsorbed films that resist acid, salt, and moisture attack. These cationic actives perform across a wide pH range and are used in systems such as metalworking fluids, descalers, industrial cleaners, and maintenance formulations. The portfolio includes amines, amidoamines, quats, and imidazolines that support strong corrosion resistance and broad electrolyte compatibility.

Ascent Chemicals’ silicone-based defoamers deliver fast knockdown at very low dose with strong persistence under high pH and temperature. They perform well in demanding systems such as drilling fluids, lubricants, textile processes, and heavy-duty cleaners where maximum defoaming strength and minimal residue are required.

Primary emulsifiers are the foundation of stable emulsions, delivering strong oil-wetting, water dispersion, and thermal stability. They support robust emulsion formation, improved rheology, and reliable performance across demanding applications, including drilling fluids, metalworking formulations, and industrial lubricants.

Secondary emulsifiers work with primary emulsifiers to strengthen emulsion stability, enhance fluid consistency, and maintain performance under challenging conditions. They improve rheology, thermal tolerance, and emulsion integrity in systems such as drilling fluids, metalworking formulations, and industrial lubricants.

SierraLube BIO CD and BIO SD provide high renewable content, excellent compatibility with oil-based fluids, and excellent water dispersibility, enabling reliable torque and drag control even in heavy-brine, high-temperature systems.

Ascent Chemicals' Silicone Emulsions are water-dispersible PDMS defoamers that give fast knockdown at low dose and stable suppression under high pH, heat, and shear. Use in Clean-in-place (CIP), tunnel and spray washers, fabric finishing, waste water treatment, and drilling muds. Easy to pump and rinse. Good choice for clear aqueous systems needing reliable air release.