The premier event in the energy industries—upstream, midstream, downstream and power—will occur in Houston, Texas next week at CERAWeek 2019. It: …provides comprehensive insight into the global and regional energy future by addressing key issues—from markets and...
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Supplying Technology and Expertise in the Permian Basin
Last Friday, the Emerson Permian Basin Service Center had its grand opening. It's a: …new $4 million Permian Basin Service Center to bring enhanced oil and gas technologies and services to the fast-growing region. The technology center is the latest investment in...
Increasing Permian Basin Local Support
If you follow the upstream oil & gas industry, you'll frequently see headlines like this Forbes article, The Permian Basin Continues To Drive Record U.S. Energy Growth. I mention this because I'll be heading out to Odessa in West Texas for the grand opening of...
Accurate Oil Storage Tank Custody Transfer
For oil & gas well pads not connected to pipelines, custody transfer of the produced oil and produced water occurs via truck transport. The trucks load oil from holding tanks and require accurate measurements for the custody transfer from producer. Similarly, this...
How Coriolis Meter Drive Gain Indication Works
The Drive Gain diagnostic value that a Micro Motion Coriolis meter from Emerson reports is a very good indicator of when there is gas vapor in the oil leg. That is why is it important to monitor, because it can tell you very definitively if the oil leg on your separator is experiencing gas carry-under.
Proxy Digital Twin for Oil and Gas Subsurface and Surface Operations
The Society of Exploration Geophysicists recently held their annual meeting. Emerson's Hassane Kassouf shared his thoughts on how digital twin technology can transform operational efficiency in oil & gas production in a daily news article at this meeting,...
A Sharper Look into the Subsurface: High-resolution Tomography
Author: Gali Dekel, GeoDepth and EarthStudy 360 Product Manager 3D seismic datasets are growing in size, as seismic surveys are covering larger areas than ever before. In addition, companies are merging legacy and new datasets into single mega-datasets. These trends...
Automation in LNG Supply Chain
I was copied on an email exchange about the outlook for the liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry. Emerson's Chuck Miller shared some great thoughts that I wanted to highlight in this post. From a global perspective, China became the largest gas importer this year with...
Top Quartile Performance in LNG and Gas Plant Production
At the recent 2018 Gastech Conference in Barcelona, Spain, Emerson's Patrick Deruytter presented on ways for gas plants and liquefied natural gas (LNG) production facilities to drive operations to top quartile performance. The focus of the presentation was to look at...
Maintaining Pipeline Integrity through Effective Leak Detection
Pipeline infrastructure here in the U.S. and in many parts of the world go back many decades. With the rapid technology advancements in oil & gas exploration and production and increasing production levels, some of these pipelines are at capacity limits and new...
Sharing Expertise at Society of Exploration Geophysicists Annual Meeting
Next week, October 14-19 is the Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and 88th Annual Meeting in Anaheim, California. Many members from the Emerson Exploration & Production Software team will be there to present to the attendees. Let me...
US Onshore Oil and Gas Fiscal Measurement Regulatory Updates
Emerson's Marc Buttler joined two oil & gas professionals in a 2018 Emerson Exchange conference presentation, US Onshore Regulatory Compliance & Measurement Standards Update. Their abstract: Regulatory compliance, perfect execution, cost of ownership, and...
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