Amphi® improves formulation performance through multifunctional glycolipid chemistry that enhances interfacial behavior across systems.
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Acidizing and remediation treatments are used to restore or enhance well productivity by dissolving near-wellbore damage, improving permeability, and preparing the reservoir for stimulation. In both conventional and unconventional workflows, acid is often the first chemical to touch new rock.
But traditional acid packages require multiple additives—solvents, surfactants, anti-sludge agents—that introduce operational complexity, risk, and cost. Inefficient blends reduce penetration, create emulsions, or require repeat treatments.
AcidBoost® replaces entire multi-additive systems with a single acid-compatible biosurfactant microemulsion, delivering deeper acid contact and cleaner near-wellbore conditions across carbonates, sandstones, and mixed lithologies.
Amphi® improves formulation performance through multifunctional glycolipid chemistry that enhances interfacial behavior across systems.
Amphi® CL and CH are glycolipid biosurfactants designed to improve wetting, dispersion, emulsification, and detergency in industrial and consumer formulations.
They are engineered for different formulation environments:
Both share the same core chemistry but are tuned for different performance outcomes.
Amphi biosurfactants reduce surface and interfacial tension and form micelles that interact with oils, particles, and surfaces.
Key functional effects:
Their low critical micelle concentration (CMC) allows them to be effective at lower use rates.
Most conventional surfactants are optimized for one function (wetting, emulsification, or detergency).
Amphi biosurfactants provide multi-functional performance, enabling formulators to:
They are not 1:1 replacements—they are performance enhancers within a system.
No—and that’s intentional.
Amphi is designed to be formulation-flexible, not a direct substitute.
Formulators typically use it to:
Depending on the system:
Amphi CL:
Amphi CH:
Amphi biosurfactants form smaller micelles than many conventional surfactants, which allows:
This is one of the key drivers of performance at lower use rates.
They are designed to work within multi-component systems.
Performance benefits are typically observed in:
Results depend on formulation design, but they are built to improve system-level performance, not just single metrics.
Yes - we routinely see excellent synergies with conventional ingredients.
Amphi biosurfactants help:
Amphi biosurfactants maintain activity across a broad pH range (~2–10) and perform well under challenging formulation conditions.
This makes them suitable for:
Amphi helps restore or improve performance without overloading the system.
valued
They deliver functional advantages at the interface, AND they have desirable sustainability profiles.
But performance is the primary reason they’re used.
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Acidizing is one of the highest-ROI interventions—make it work harder with formation-friendly chemistry proven to increase penetration, cleanup, and production uplift.