Indications keep coming in that the oil & gas production business, particularly in unconventional oil & gas production, continues to improve. This RBN Energy article, Ready To Run - Strong Capex Boost By ConocoPhillips Headlines Early 2018 Guidance is one...
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Multiphase Metering for Onshore Oil and Gas Wells
U.S. oil production, led by shale production, "…could pass 9.9 million barrels per day in December 2017", according to Rystad Energy. Oil and gas producers have continued to find ways to reduce capital expenditures on new production and optimize ongoing operational...
Streamlining Oil & Gas Well Test Operations
The separation of oil, gas, produced water and sediments from producing oil & gas wells take place in production separators. Traditionally test separators were also installed to individually test the wells to determine their composition of these components....
Advances in Oil and Gas Produced Fluids Multiphase Measurement
It's encouraging to see the comeback in shale oil & gas production here in the U.S. Oil & gas producers have made great strides in lowering the costs of drilling, hydraulic fracturing & completion and ongoing well pad production. A recent CPI Financial...
Multiphase Flow Measurement for Oil and Gas Well Pads
In oil and gas production well pads and offshore platforms, separators perform the work of breaking out the oil, gas and water into separate component streams. Test separators have historically taken flows from individual wells, known as well tests, to determine the...
Optimizing Oil and Gas Well Chemical Injection Processes
Given the presence of water in oil and gas producing wells, corrosion in the piping is a problem that must be mitigated. Producers inject chemicals into the production stream to minimize the oxidation process. The cost of these chemicals can have an impact on the...
Integrated Oil and Gas Well Testing
Testing the composition of oil, gas, basic sediment and water has historically been a batch-type operation where the flow from a single well has been diverted from a header leading to the production separator over to a test separator. These components are measured in...
Measurement and Final Control Technology Announcements from OTC
The news was flowing fast and furiously from the recent Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston, Texas. I wanted to highlight some of the news from Emerson in case you missed it. To help protect subsea well and pipeline integrity and support...
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)...
Streamlining Reservoir Modeling Workflows
PetroWiki defines reservoir management as: …a dynamic process that recognizes the uncertainties in reservoir performance resulting from our inability to fully characterize reservoirs and flow processes. It seeks to mitigate the effects of these uncertainties by...
Monitoring Corrosion in Refineries
In a recent post we highlighted diagnostics to identify wiring corrosion. But what about corrosion in the process piping? I recently received a whitepaper, Solutions for Corrosion Monitoring in Refineries, written by Emerson's Kjell Wold and Hallgeir Jenssen. They...
Integrated Reservoir Engineering
The science of modeling oil & gas reservoirs involves a mix of the natural sciences. Wikipedia defines reservoir engineering as: …a branch of petroleum engineering that applies scientific principles to the drainage problems arising during the development and...
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