Part 2 of Marc Buttler's Emerson Exchange conference presentation was on regulatory and standards changes in US onshore custody transfer and fiscal measurement. API MPMS Ch. 4.8 – Operation of Proving Systems has recently opened to provide clarification on proving...
Basic sediment and water, or BS&W. It's what comes along for the ride in most oil & gas producing wells. The goal is to separate these from the oil and gas for proper disposal. The sediment portion, often consisting of sand, can collect and accumulate in the...
Author: Gali Dekel As both the amount of acquired data and the power of computers continue to increase exponentially, there is a natural demand for higher exploration precision. Acknowledging the complexity and richness of subsurface media properties is one way to...
As an oil & gas reservoir ages, the composition of the production often changes. For gas wells, this change is often from dry gas to a wetter gas. The wet components can be quite acidic due to CO2 and organic acids contained in this liquid phase. In an Oilfield...
I read an article today about how the Texas/New Mexico Permian Basin shale region is driving extreme frack sand demand. This article references an IHS Markit study indicating the value of this market has grown from $1.3B to $4B USD over the past two years. This growth...
Author: Lorena Guerra Uncertainty is an intrinsic property of the oil & gas exploration & production industry. A major goal in any interpretation project is to reduce uncertainty to the minimum, and one way to do that is to work in an integrated fashion, using...
Big data is not just a phenomenon on the surface of oil & gas production producing areas. It's growing rapidly below the surface as well. In an article from the 2018 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) show daily, Facing the Digital Deluge (p19), Emerson's...
Author: Peter Wang The global oil industry has certainly turned a corner since January 2016, and nothing says it like Brent Crude spot prices: January 2016 – Brent low $27.10May 2018 – Brent high $80.5A difference of 197% These higher prices are here to stay for a...
Earlier this week we previewed Emerson's Marc Buttler's presentation on reducing lost and unaccounted-for gas to be presented at next week's World Gas Conference. Also presenting will be Emerson's Sergio Pasquali. His presentation, New Technologies Drive Operational...
Every three years, the World Gas Conference convenes. It is: …the most important global gas industry gathering of influential leaders, policy-makers, buyers, sellers and experts. Emerson's Marc Buttler will present at this year's conference, June 25-29 in Washington...
In several of the upstream oil & gas-related blog posts we highlighted digital transformation opportunities and activities. But what about in the midstream sector including gas processing facilities, pipelines and storage terminals? In a Pipeline Industry Report...
We often discuss aspects of the production side of the upstream oil & gas business, but less so with the exploration side. In December of last year, Emerson completed the acquisition of Paradigm. An array of software tools enables oil & gas producers to gain...
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