Houghton International brings the highest-quality specialty chemicals, oils and lubricants to metalworking, automotive, aerospace, steel, aluminum, offshore and other industries.
The Offshore Industry product mix provides products for the following applications:
- Blow out Preventor – BOP Fluid
- Motion & Drillstring Tensioners – Compensator Fluid
- Subsea Production Systems – Subsea Control Fluid
- Underwater Vehicles – Mineral & Vegetable Hydraulic Oils
- Equipment Protection & Preservation – Rust Preventives
- Directional Drilling Operations – Lubricity Additives
Houghto-Safe Compensator fluid
Compensator Fluids
Houghto-Safe 273CTF
Houghto-Safe 105CTF
Meets 50:1 Compression ignition test
New Product Development:
WL1
NL1
OEM Approvals
Rexroth Hydraudyne
Maritime Hydraulics
Control Flow
Hydroa
Brown Brothers
Hydralift
Rucker Shaffer
Western Gear
Retsco International
Huisman Itrec
Hydraudyne
Rig Operators using Houghto-Safe
Atwood Oceanic
Conoco
Diamond Offshore
Dolphin Drilling
Forasol
Japan Drilling
Maersk
Noble Drilling
Noble Drilling
ONGC India
Petrolia Drilling (Larson oil & gas)
Rowan Drilling
Schahin Cury Brazil
Sea Drill (Ex Smedvig)
Stena Drilling
Transocean (Sedco-Forex, Reading & Bates, Sant-fe,Global Marine)
Stack-Magic BOP fluids
B.O.P Fluids
- Stack-Magic 200F
- Stack-Magic ECO-F
- Stack-Magic ECO-EBF
- Monoethylene Glycol
New Product Development:
- Stack Magic ECO ULTRA
Aqualink – Subsea Control fluids
Subsea Control Fluids
- Aqualink 300-F
- Aqualink 325-F
- Aqualink HT804F
- Aqua-glycol 24F
- OEM Approvals
Cameron Controls
- Aker Kvaerner
- FMC Kongsberg
- Duco
- Oceaneering Multiflex
Drilling Additives
- DHM 99-39
- Torque Trim 22
- Cosmolubric ETL
Sales input into this market has been through Halliburton Baroid, Roemex and Shell. Little is known of the true potential of the market place outside of these three companies. However, based on sales to date and the knowledge of mud volumes required to drill each hole, then requirement for additives is very high.
Hydraulic mineral Oil
- Hydro-Drive HPE 22
- Hydro-Drive HPE 32
- Hydro-Drive HPE 100
Hydraulic Vegetable oils
- Cosmolubric B245 (VG46)
- Cosmolubric TR2000
- Multi-Bio EP Grease
Major Customers
- Soil Machine Dynamics,
- CTC Marine,
- Rotech
We currently have approximately 45% of the ROV and subsea trencher business.
Leak tracer Dye
- Houghto-Trace dye
Equipment Preservation
- Rust-Veto NTP32
- Stack-Guard WG
BOP Cleaner
- Systems Cleaner G
Rust Preventives
- Rust-Veto AS
- Rust-Veto 14
- Rust-Veto 33X
- Rust-Veto 232
- Rust-Veto 130
- Rust-Veto 4214
- Rust-Veto 321
- Rust-Veto 310
OEM Approvals
- Vallourec
- Sumitomo Steel
Rust Veto AS
Our largest sales came from Rust Veto AS used for the protection of threaded ends on drill pipe during storage. Rust Veto AS is now considered to be the industry standard for this application taking 65% of the UK market.
Major Customers
- Tuboscope,
- Ramco Tubular Services,
- Smiths International,
- Petroleum Pipe,
- Vallourec Steel
- Sumitomo Steel Japan
- Nizhnedneprovsky Steel Mill
