A big part of reliability for your Drag Reducing Agent (DRA) operations is ensuring you have the product when you need it. Distribution reliability requires a sophisticated, holistic, and personal approach which is ingrained in our overall full-service offer at LSPI.

Seamless, On-Time Product Delivery

• Strategic inventory levels held close to your locations to ensure rapid response to your needs
• Multiple product warehouses and trans-loading facilities, strategically located around the world for quick delivery
• Dedicated fleet of tanker trucks and rail cars to ensure quality, safe deliveries
• Logistics teams based in five US states and Brussels, Belgium dedicated to your needs
• Global network of logistics partners and independent carriers to align with your goals
• Dedicated, in-country warehousing and product deliveries through distribution partners to meet your specific needs
• Modern, well-maintained trucks, rail, and more to ensure reliable delivery

Safe, Reliable Distribution

We recognize that it’s not just about getting the product to a location, it’s about keeping everyone safe.

In the United States, LSP Transport LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of LSPI has won multiple safety awards from the National Tank Truck Carriers Association and our operators have driven over 30 million miles with zero preventable Department of Transportation (DOT) collisions. Globally, we work heavily with each distribution partner to ensure safety is the outmost priority.

We understand pipeline operations teams have a lot on their plates to ensure that systems are optimized and running smoothly. LSPI takes care of Drag Reducing Agent (DRA) operations with our holistic approach to injection and field services. With everything working together as one system, we can provide reliable operations and best-in-class industry support with a single point of contact.

Reliable, Responsive Service

LSPI has highly trained expert field personnel stationed close to your locations to provide proactive service, the quickest response times, and personalized experiences.

Each location has an assigned field service representative, field service manager, and additional field personnel for emergencies. Our team is actively monitoring skid health and working with you directly to ensure operations are running smoothly.

LSPI Field Service Representatives Provide:

• Proactive monitoring and maintenance to prevent downtime
• Direct relationships and contact with field service representatives and managers
• A technical expert team who can address issues quickly
• No additional costs for field support as part of our full-service offer

Advanced, Reliable Equipment

Ensuring reliability while injecting LiquidPower™, ExtremePower®, and RefinedPower™ flow improvers to optimize a pipeline’s flow rate takes strong industry knowledge, expertise, and the right equipment. LSPI skids are specifically designed to provide the most reliable and optimal experience as part of our overall support to you.

LSPI Skid Equipment:

• Safe, clean skid design to ensure quality operations
• No additional costs for skids as part of our full-service offer
• Proactive, automatic alerts to our field team for fast response and to help prevent downtime
• Optional, proactive alerts to your team related to skid operations and deliveries

LSPI has highly qualified engineers with industry leading tools who are experts in the application of Drag Reducing Agent (DRAs) on liquid pipeline operations. As the company that first commercialized DRA, our dedicated team of technical experts, utilizing customized modeling software and over 40 years of DRA performance data, will work hand-in-hand with you to meet operational goals.

Available Support

We offer a wide variety of technical support as part of our full-service DRA offering

• Pipeline modeling & optimization utilizing our proprietary DRA performance equations
• Customized DRA training
• Field testing
• Technical support

We’re here to help

• Changing pipeline goals

• Increasing pipeline capacity

• Sustainability efforts

• Utility costs and availability

LSPI has deep technological and research expertise with Drag Reducing Agents (DRA) to ensure that pipeline operations can achieve optimal performance with the most reliable products.

Optimum Performance

LSPI products typically perform better than competitive offerings due to our full-service model including leading technology.

Dedicated Research Team and Facilities

LSPI operates the world’s foremost research and development center dedicated to drag reduction technology.

• Deep expertise in the synthesis of ultra-high molecular weight polymers, analysis of fuels and oils for the presence of flow improvers, and quality testing of flow improver products.
• The most comprehensive testing in the industry to investigate refinery impact and fuels quality performance.
• Dedicated research facilities that include 16 laboratories, pilot plant facilities, and a semi-works manufacturing unit.
• Robust team of researchers, scientists, and technical professionals with over 650 combined years in drag reduction experience.
• The most extensive DRA patent portfolio in the world with over 70 granted U.S. patents, numerous patents pending, as well as foreign equivalents to these patents.

A Long History of Innovation and Improvements

LSPI continues to be the global market leader in flow improver technology. With a long history of successes and a commitment to continual innovation and improvements.

• Commercialized the very first drag reducer for crude oil pipelines in 1979
• Created a new generation of suspension-based flow improvers in the 1990’s
• Invented and commercialized a suspension flow improver for refined pipeline applications in 1997
• Revolutionized the DRA market again in 2008 with the first flow improver for true heavy crude applications
• Continually investing in research and development to improve current products and innovate with new technologies

Learn more about our research and how it improves operations.

LiquidPower Specialty Products Inc. drag reducers are protected by patents in the United States.

We recognize how important reliability is for continuous pipeline operations, and LSPI has the resources and processes in place to ensure you have the best quality products when you need them.
 

Reliable Supply and Performance

LSPI is the largest manufacturer of DRA in the world and operates multiple plants in multiple manufacturing locations to ensure we can manufacture and deliver DRA.

• Capable of producing and shipping your DRA 24 hours a day, seven days a week
• Multiple plants to secure production and deliver DRA
• Significant inventories of raw materials and finished products to ensure continuity of our operations
• Ability to respond quickly
• Distribution centers strategically placed for reliable and efficient distribution

Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) manufacturing awards

• Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Voluntary Protection Program Star Status
• OSHA Star of Excellence recipient

Robust Quality

The quality of the DRA going into your pipeline has a direct impact on the performance and reliability of your operations.

• Strict selection and quality audits of our raw material suppliers
• Quality checks during each step of our manufacturing process
• Retention samples of each batch of product for additional quality checks and traceability
• Products are made with a highly automated production process ensuring consistent high quality everyday
• Quality is reviewed with cross-functional teams weekly to ensure control and continuous improvement from development, manufacturing, to delivery and performance

We also have an extensive Research and Development laboratory and team who conduct extensive testing on current and new DRA products to provide the best performance.

LSPI is ISO 9001:2015 certified covering design, development, manufacturing, marketing, field testing and distribution and service of flow improver products for petroleum and refined product pipeline applications.

View LSPI’s Bureau Veritas ISO 9001:2015 Certificates in English, French, Russian or Spanish.