When it comes to drilling, cementing, stimulation, and production, BASF offers one of the most comprehensive chemical portfolios in the industry. Our proven strengths are in innovative, sustainable solutions with consistent product quality. Best-in-class, well-site operations are essential to maximize recovery of oil and gas reserves while minimizing environmental impact. Specialty chemicals that bring unique capabilities and functionality are integral to this goal.
BASF is well-positioned to ensure reliable supplies within the oil and gas industries.
We offer a wide range of performance chemicals to every application sector within the oilfield: drilling, cementing, stimulation, and production. Our solutions act as enablers for our customers to achieve maximum results in their oilfield operations.
And with nearly 50 years of experience, BASF offers its customers efficient solutions for the treatment of various gases such as natural gas, synthesis gas, and biogas. Worldwide, these solutions have been proven and demonstrated in more than 400 reference plants.
Areas of Oil & Gas
BASF develops catalysts in multiple sub-industries. Choose your industry to learn more about our offerings and expertise in that area.
Blue Map of BASF Process Catalysts
Check out our interactive Blue Map to learn about our solutions and products within our applications.
Adsorbents for Sustainability
Carbon capture from OASE blue and CO2 dehydration from BASF Sorbead® provide the technology to separate, dehydrate, transport and store carbon dioxide to reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions.
Chemical Catalysts
As the global leader in chemical catalysts, BASF develops cutting-edge catalyst chemistry with our customers’ needs in mind.
Compressed Air Drying
BASF Sorbead® Air are essential in removing water from compressed air so that the efficiency of chemical processes is not compromised. Sorbead® Air is the most energy saving and environmentally friendly adsorbent available for the air compression industry.
Refinery Catalysts
At BASF, our Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) catalyst and additive offerings together with our expert technical services build the right solution to create value within any unit’s constraints.
Natural Gas Treatment Solutions
BASF Natural Gas experts have a diverse portfolio of products to custom design a solution and help you meet your Natural Gas treatment needs.
Olefin Purification
BASF is a leading supplier of adsorbents to a wide range of industries and this for more than 50 years. A special focus lies with those industries that generate, recover, and use olefins, and for which BASF offers products under the title of Olefin Purification.
Petrochemical Catalysts
We offer a broad range of proprietary base metal and precious metal catalysts, as well as base metal oxides for several chemical and petrochemical processes.
Sulfur Recovery
BASF offers superior catalysts and proven technologies for high sulfur recovery to achieve the desired performance and to meet environmental requirements for sulfur emissions.
Products
Browse our products to view technical details and learn how they benefit your process.
PuriStar® R3-15S
BASF PuriStar R3-15S is an adsorbent specifically developed for the removal of mercury components from different streams.
Selexsorb® AS
BASF Selexsorb® AS is a smooth, alumina-based spherical adsorbent impregnated with a promoter to provide optimum adsorption capacity for arsine, phosphine and stibine.
Sorbead® Air R
Sorbead® Air R is an alumino-silicate gel in our line of highly efficient adsorbents ideally suited for the compressed air market.
Valor®
Valor® is BASF latest vanadium trapping technology.
Recent News & Media

Jan 17, 2023
ExxonMobil awards BASF Durasorb™ Cryo-HRU with technology qualification for LNG pre-treatment
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Oct 06, 2021
BASF introduces Enable™ FCC additive for superior performance in emissions and regenerator afterburn control
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Sep 29, 2021
Shell qualifies BASF Sorbead® Adsorption Technology for Carbon Capture and Storage Applications
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Jan 17, 2023
ExxonMobil awards BASF Durasorb™ Cryo-HRU with technology qualification for LNG pre-treatment
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Oct 06, 2021
BASF introduces Enable™ FCC additive for superior performance in emissions and regenerator afterburn control
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Sep 29, 2021
Shell qualifies BASF Sorbead® Adsorption Technology for Carbon Capture and Storage Applications
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