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Oil and gas industry for its development faces a key issue in transferring crude oil in pipelines due to the fluctuation of temperature gradient. This caused some alterations in the composition and pour point of the oil itself. Wax and asphaltenes depositions caused the pipelines to experience blockage due to reducing the diameter of the pipelines. These deposition results in overwhelming significances such as restriction of flow, formation damage, and at worst cases abandonment of wells and production system flow lines. These complications cause tremendous profit loss; therefore studies have been focused on finding solutions and overcoming this issue. Various remedies were proposed and implemented to clear the production system flow lines such as chemical, mechanical and thermal treatment. However in recent years with the increased challenge many researchers have been focusing on combining few …