Wax deposition can reduce flow channel, increase the resistance and decrease fluid producing intensity in oil pipelines, which bring a critical operational challenge for the oil development. The prediction of temperature field and wax deposition location is the basis in thermal washing and wax removal. In this paper, the wells of sucker rod pump in Da Qing oil field is selected as the research object, a new method is proposed to predict temperature field and wax deposition location based on heat-fluid coupling method. The regularities of temperature distribution and wax deposition location are simulated with different fluid producing intensities and moisture contents. With the migration of produced liquid, the temperature decreases from bottom to upward, while the decline rate becomes less and less. With the increase of fluid producing intensity and moisture content, the temperature is increasing and the wax deposit location becomes shallower. In contrast to the calculated and measured results, the coincidences rate distribution is in the range of 95.61-97.86%. The results have a significance to the thermal washing plan formulation.
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