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...
Offshore Technology Conference
Integrated Oil and Gas Well Testing
Testing the composition oil, gas and produced water and basic sediment from oil & gas wells has traditionally required test separators. For offshore platforms and onshore well pads with multiple wells, this has meant complex manifolds and valves to route the...
Integrated Operations Continue to Deliver Benefits in Today’s Oil Market
Authors: Jeff Dymond and Mike Boudreaux The reality of lower oil and gas prices is driving energy companies to operate differently. The lower price per barrel is squeezing profitability and pushing companies to contain costs, increase reliability, and respond quickly...
Fundamentally Transforming Capital Project Planning and Execution
Executing capital projects grows increasingly difficult as their size and scope continues to expand. I caught up with Emerson's Kevin Jackson who has witnessed this growth over time. Kevin notes that today 65% of projects over a billion dollars fail. Likewise, 35% of...
Offshore Technology Conference 2016—Examine your Chemical Injection System
Take a moment and ask yourself: How much does my company spend every year on chemicals? For most, chemical injection is a sunk cost of production–it's a cost that's hard to tackle because few of us are chemists. Both the dosage of chemical and the amount spent on...
High Pressure and Temperature Sensors for Subsurface and Surface Oil and Gas Applications
In a Reuters article, Forget fracking. Choking, lifting latest efforts to stem U.S. shale bust, Andrew Slaughter, director for the Deloitte Center for Energy Solutions stated: Production optimization is going to be the next phase of the shale revolution… The low price...
Protecting Control Systems with Comprehensive Cybersecurity Programs
Author: Jocelyn Sexton At this year's Offshore Technology Conference, Asset Strategy & Management Program Manager Rick Gorskie talked to oil and gas customers about their concerns regarding cybersecurity. As you can imagine, it's a hot topic. Many of our customers...
Integrating Reliability Practices for Top-Quartile Performance
The reliability of your plant assets affects safety, unscheduled downtime, maintenance costs, quality and the overall efficiency of your operations. Solomon Associates in their Reliability and Maintenance Study quantify the significance of top quartile performance...
Low Oil Prices Driving Need for More Efficient Production
I was over in Houston to check in on the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) these past few days. If you've never been, it's absolutely massive and show the enormity of what's required from explorations through ongoing oil & gas production through custody...
Offshore Technology Conference and Emerson Experts
For oil and gas professionals, the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) is one of the offshore energy industry's top events. It is taking place next week, May 4-7 in Houston, Texas. I'll be there to cover some of the happenings on Monday. We'll have many of the oil...
Subsea Well Wireless Pressure and Temperature Measurement
The news continues to flow out from the 2014 Offshore Technology Conference in Houston. One piece of news, as reported by Rigzone, is Emerson Deploys Downhole Wireless Sensor System on Statoil's Skuld Field. From the press release: Emerson Process Management announced...
Upstream and Midstream Natural Gas Custody Transfer Metering
There is lots of excitement just east of us here in Austin for the 2014 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC2014) in Houston, Texas. One of the innovations being highlighted is Emerson's Rosemount Analytical 370XA gas chromatograph for natural gas measurement analysis...
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