Many major oil producers have formed strategic alliances with service and materials suppliers. Successfully conducting business through alliances requires a continuous flow of communication and trust between the alliance partners. This paper describes an alllance-team field project addressing operational complications caused by Iron sulfide (FeS) fouling in the low-pressure gas production of the Texes Panhandle. The focus is on how a cooperative alliance facilitated enacting a downhole chemical corrosion inhibition program and inspired “Sticky Coupon” design and development for surface qualitative interpretation of FeS
contamination in the gas stream. Keywords: alliances, ‘sticky coupon', inhibition, gas wells, iron sulflde, wellhead compression