Anti-Agglomerants for the Prevention of Hydrates

The implementations described herein relate to imidazoline quaternary ammonium based compositions, processes for the preparation thereof and to the use of imidazoline quaternary ammonium based compositions as anti-agglomerants. In some implementations, the anti-agglomerant compositions described herein are able to handle greater than 10° C. subcooling in a sour system up to 40,000 ppm H2S and also without the need for a hydrocarbon phase. It is believed that some of the anti-agglomerants described herein can function without a hydrocarbon phase in sour conditions.