For onshore oil & gas producers, how accurate are your measurements from allocations at the wellhead to custody transfer? In a recorded webinar, Produced Fluids Management – Getting Paid for What you Produce, Emerson's Michael Machuca describes the financial gains...
While the news of an OPEC oil freeze increases prices, at least in the short term, they remain well below their levels of a few years ago. The focus for oil and gas producers remains on optimizing their current producing wells at the expense of new drilling. Emerson's...
Author: Michael Machuca Management of well pad inventory, allocation and custody transfers encompasses multiple operations that contribute to overall production management uncertainty. The accumulated measurement errors and variability in operations within a storage...
Where new production was once the major focus, optimizing existing oil & gas well pads and production facilities is now high on the priority list to reduce operating costs. In an American Oil & Gas Reporter article, Production Optimization: 'Systems' Approach...
Author: Michael Machuca Manual tank gauging is very prevalent in onshore oil and gas facilities located in the United States. It is viewed as a low-cost, effective solution to manage tank inventory and custody transfer measurements. The API 18.1 standard governs the...
Managing produced fluids in the age of shale oil and gas production has opened up some new challenges compared with the days of traditional reservoir production. I caught up with Emerson's Michael Machuca. He noted that while global oil prices were high, shale...
A colleague pointed me to an article with an in depth analysis on the reasons behind the drop in oil price over the past several months. This economic climate makes oil & gas production project and operational efficiency even more important. At last summer's...
One of the most basic functions in an oil and gas production process is the separation of the oil, gas, basic sediment, and water. The production separator handles this function. This separation step in the process allows the flow or production rate of the individual...
As technologies such as horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have advanced, so has the number of multi-well pad sites and the need for standardized process automation and instrumentation. The goal of these automation technologies is to help bring first...
Going back to 1980s when I worked on offshore oil & gas production projects, it seemed that well test measurements could be a tricky business. Even with today's technologies, the increase in unconventional oil & gas production continues to make well test...
Emerson's Michael Machuca, a member of the upstream Oil & Gas team in the Flow Solutions Group shares his expertise in an Emerson Exchange Stuttgart presentation, Unconventional O&G Shale Production - Leveraging Best Practices Globally. His abstract:Shale O&G...
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