ConocoPhillips Specialty Products Inc. (CSPI) developed its pioneering technology during the 1970s. In 1979, ConocoPhillips successfully tested and commercialized its first drag reducer with a major pipeline system using a gel-type product, CDR® Flow Improver. Its success was exceptional –- taking the pipeline system from transporting 1.5 million barrels of oil per day to 2.1 million barrels of oil per day. 

CSPI continued to invest in polymer technology, extending its CDR® gel technology through two generations of development, achieving in the order of 10 times performance increase from the original product. In the late 1980s, CSPI researched and developed water soluble drag reducers for commercial use in oil fields. In the early 1990s, ConocoPhillips embarked on improving the delivery and handling of drag reducers. As a result, we forged a new generation of suspension–based flow improvers, under the LiquidPower™ brand. CSPI continued to invest in new product development, and in 1997 commercialized the first suspension flow improver for refined product pipeline applications. Since then, we have developed special flow improvers for heavy crude and for arctic conditions.

We are proud of our pioneering heritage and we continue to improve upon our already outstanding polymer technology. Our teams, worldwide, continue to strive to produce better, and higher performing products, whilst maintaining our superior service.