Formation of wax deposition on the internal surface of the oilfield equipment is often an arising type of complications in oil production, which significantly decreases useful cross section of production tubing and pipeline system. Lengths of wax deposits can reach great values (more than 100 m). Intensive wax deposition could totally block well tubing, annulus or pipelines in certain areas, which would need a dewaxing workover. On the basis of the analysis of ways of cleaning wells of wax deposition it is revealed that in some cases one of the effective methods of prevention formation of wax deposition and fight against them is use of energy of high-frequency and super-high-frequency electromagnetic fields. Technological schemes of implementation of these methods are offered. In the article processes of heating and fusion of a wax deposition in a oil-well trunk are investigated by a moving source of electromagnetic radiation of super-high-frequency range. For effective melting of a plugs of wax deposition the source of electromagnetic radiation moves along a trunk in process of movement of an interface of firm and liquid phases. For toy problem time of elimination of paraffin plugs and dependence of this time on radiated frequency are defined. It is shown that the conical shape of the melted zone can lead to corrupting of plugs before its complete melting. The efficiency of this method as the relation of the useful operation to expended for the selected parameters of an electromagnetic source and paraffin plugs reaches 60 %.
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