FOR THE CONTROL OF SCALE 
Litho-Bac™ is a proprietary combination of natural, facultative anaerobic biologicals and biochemicals used in oil well operations to inhibit scale formation. Litho-Bac™ has some corrosion inhibition properties. Scale formation is inhibited through metabolic by- products of Litho-Bac™, including alcohols, ketones, organic acids, and biosurfactants. Litho-Bac™ also has a limited ability to disperse, dissolve, and prevent paraffin deposition.
 
Application of Litho-Bac™ protects the formation face, as well as downhole and surface equipment from scale deposition by sequestering and chelating major cations, such as calcium, magnesium, and barium. Some by-products of metabolism, the ketones and organic acids, are chelating agents that can inhibit the scale crystallization process. This is accomplished by bonding with the cation and preventing it from bonding with the anion to form an in- soluble scale. This is similar to the process by which chemical inhibitors work.  Litho-Bac™ further protects equipment with biosurfactants that remove previously deposited solids, which cause under deposit corrosion.