Successfully and economically getting oil and gas from the reservoir to the point of sale is known as flow assurance. Wikipedia defines it as: …extremely diverse, encompassing many discrete and specialized subjects and bridging across the full gamut of engineering...
pipeline integrity
Remote Automation Solutions Roadmap
One of the key areas in Emerson Exchange conferences are the roadmap sessions to look at the technologies and services that have come along and a peek the future. Emerson's Stuart Miller led the roadmap session on remote automation solutions. He opened with an...
Establishing Effective Corrosion Monitoring
As oil and gas flow through pipes and processing facilities, so do other elements which contribute to corrosion. Effectively managing this corrosion is critical to ongoing safety, reliability, and efficient operation. In a recent Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)...
Reducing Cavitation in Piping
Emerson's team responsible for Fisher Valves & Instruments products has a great series of YouTube videos on piping cavitation and ways to mitigate the damage that it can cause. Melissa Niesen, a research engineer, uses the Marshalltown Innovation Center flow lab...
Measuring Hydrocarbon Dew Point with Gas Chromatographs
One of the challenges in measuring hydrocarbon gases is the precipitation condensation of liquids, which can impact measurement accuracy and create maintenance issues. Emerson's Shane Hale authors an article, Hydrocarbon Dew Point Measurement Using Gas Chromatographs...
Mining Applications Require New, More Powerful Actuator Designs
In today's guest post, Emerson's Mike McQuade shares how a mining pipeline valve application with huge torque demands necessitated a new valve actuator design to meet the challenge. Three miles above sea level in the mountains of central Peru is the Toromocho...
Helping to Ensure Slurry Pipeline Shutdown in Emergency Situations
Emerson's Mike McQuade, a member of the Valve Automation business unit, describes the process of storing hydraulic energy for slurry pipeline shutdowns. Slurry pipelines are found in mining operations where ore is mixed with water and pumped from the mining area to...
The Longest Heated and Insulated Oil Pipeline in Action
At last October's Emerson Exchange in Nashville, I highlighted a story told about a custody transfer application on the world's longest heated and insulated pipeline. Here's a quick summary of the story: Emerson provided a custody transfer metering system for the...
Rotary Vane Actuators in Slurry Mining Applications
In today's guest post, Emerson's Mike McQuade describes slurry-mining applications where rotary vane actuators are well suited. In a slurry-type mining application, the ore is ground up into fine particles and mixed with water, so that the mixture can now be pumped...
Coriolis and Wireless Measurement in Pipeline Leak Detection
In September, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC) Pipeline Leak Detection Technology Conference gathered to: …provide vendors, scientists, and research and development entities, the opportunity to describe the status of existing pipeline leak...
Large Capacity Coriolis Flow and Density Measurement
I saw a tweet about "return-flow-from-rig capabilities" from Oil, Gas & Petrochem Equipment (OG&PE) publisher and editor, J.B. Avants. He points to a video where he interviews Emerson's Denver Smart about applications for Micro Motion high-capacity Coriolis...
Proliferating Applications for Wireless Instrumentation
Emerson's Jonas Berge, whom I've highlighted many times on this blog, is at it again with another great article in Industrial Automation Asia magazine. The article, Wireless Sensor Networks: All In One describes the IEC 62591 WirelessHART communications standard and...
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