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  • A Leap Forward for Non-Gamma Measurement in the Roxar 2600 Multiphase Flow Meter

    Jim Cahill
    Since the launch of our Roxar Rapid Adaptive Measurement TM software, we’ve continued to build upon its pioneering capabilities. As it assists our customers in tackling the most challenging flow profiles of the day, we prepare for even more demanding environments in the future. This year, we’ve developed an update to Roxar Rapid Adaptive Measurement that enables supercharged capabilities in our non-gamma Roxar 2600 Multiphase…

  • Wellhead Electrification Drives Optimization Program

    Jim Cahill
    At the 2022 Emerson Exchange conference, Prabhat Behera from Occidental (Oxy) shared insights and lessons learned from a wellhead electrification project. Puffer-Sweiven’s Jack Lee and Emerson’s Damian Trujillo joined him to provide additional context on the integrated model that brought together the application, product and services. Here is their session abstract: Shutdown valves installed at the wellhead for oil…

  • Addressing Energy Transportation Challenges

    Jim Cahill
    Companies across the energy supply chain are challenged to safely and reliably move energy with ever-growing challenges. This 2:42 YouTube video, Emerson’s Advanced Digital Solutions for Energy Transportation , shares ways that Emerson technology and solutions can help address these challenges.  Visit the Transportation section on Emerson.com for ways to better respond to changing customer demands and sustainability…

  • Actuation Solutions for Constrained Spaces

    Jim Cahill
    I recently had an article published in the August 2022 issue of Hydrocarbon Processing. It is titled “Why Compact Actuation Solutions are Ideal for Constrained Space Installations,” and it discusses how a vertical profile actuator is providing new opportunities for space-constrained applications. A summary of the article follows. Space constraints are common in the oil and gas industry. However floating production,…

  • Driving Results with Innovative Gas Meter Runs Podcast

    Jim Cahill
    For natural gas producers, meter runs are the cash registers that measure the volume of gas produced. Accurate and repeatable measurements are critical for business operations and compliance with regulatory bodies and international standards. At the upcoming October 24-28 Emerson Exchange conference in the Dallas-Fort Worth Texas area, Emerson’s Karl White will be joined by a gas producer in the Western United States…

  • Improving Custody Transfer Financial Performance

    Jim Cahill
    With the Permian Basin and Eagle Ford shale oil & gas production regions here in Texas, there is a need to accurately measure the transfer of produced fluids using Lease Automatic Custody Transfer (LACT) units . These LACT units accurately measure crude oil transfers between financial parties. One Eagle Ford oil & gas producer was challenged with high hydrogen sulfide (H2S) levels in their produced fluids along with…

  • IIoT and Operational Analytics in Oil and Gas Production

    Jim Cahill
    The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) plays a more prominent and extensive role in oil & gas production applications. At the 2022 ARC Industry Forum , ARC Advisory Group’s Tim Shea hosted a session, Leveraging IIoT and Operational Analytics to Realize Digital Transformation . Tim opened by highlighting several main applications, including autonomous drilling, well monitoring & optimization well spacing and “frac…

  • Built to Endure: The Roxar 2600 Multiphase Flow Meter Supporting Sustainability

    Jim Cahill
    The world is changing. The rising demand for more sustainable business practices mean major transformations for the oil and gas industry. Legacy technologies are getting left behind in favor of advanced solutions that support green initiatives and digital transformation. A 2021 survey by SAP and Oxford Economics found that energy and utilities executives are prioritizing sustainability initiatives to meet increasing regulatory…

  • Best of Both ESG and Efficiency Goals

    Jim Cahill
    As more and more oil & gas exploration & production companies look to digitally transform their operations for efficiency and profitability, it may be surprising to learn that the digital oilfield can also help the environment, employee satisfaction, and retention rates. In other words, going digital can help you make significant gains in your ESG strategy. Having abundant data from monitoring systems is great, and…

  • Applying Advanced Analytics

    Jim Cahill
    You may assume a cloud-based SCADA platform is just another operational system like all the others. After utilizing data visualization tools and cloud applications embedded in Emerson’s Zedi Cloud Platform , you realize you can turn your data into knowledge for faster and better business decisions. That is what advanced analytics is all about! It’s getting that next level of analytics from your remotely located assets…

  • Dynamic Multiphase Flow Measurement for Rapidly Changing Conditions

    Jim Cahill
    At the time of writing this blog post, West Texas Intermediate crude oil prices current stand at over $93 per barrel and rapidly closing in on $100 per barrel. For oil and gas producers, accurate and robust multiphase measurements are critical for managing production with rapidly changing flow conditions. In a quick 2:43 YouTube video, Supporting Automation in Dynamic Multiphase Flow Measurement , Emerson’s Kelda Dinsdale…

  • Smooth Road to ESG and Fiscal Performance

    Jim Cahill
    Sometimes there are fears that environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices has to be counterproductive to the bottom line. You read about some organizations promising to blanket the globe with millions of carbon-capturing trees and realize that those trees are also absorbing a lot of capital. Investors may like the leaves in programs like that, but when those programs are fertilized with barrels of red ink, it…

  • Listening to Oil and Gas Data

    Jim Cahill
    Now that you’ve automated your production, you’re getting your well site information in real time, not waiting for the pumper to bring in tickets at the end of the day—or the week—and able to react to changes in real time. Welcome to the new, efficient, you. As great as that is, there’s more that we can do for you. If you’ve fully automated everything, your system is collecting thousands of data points every hour…

  • Roadmap your Digital Transformation

    Jim Cahill
    When you leverage the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) , with the newest technologies like Emerson’s cloud-based platform with software as a service, automation, and our experts to expand, help you plan or prepare for your operations to be more productive, more profitable and more sustainable through digital intelligence. These technologies enable your workforce to augment workflows and processes to create new efficiencies…

  • Solid Return on Operational Tech Investing

    Jim Cahill
    To ecstatic employees everywhere, more and more companies are moving from dreaded, time-wasting daily site trips, stacks of paper records and mind-numbing manual processes to technology to provide answers that are supported by factual data, automating tasks that are driven by analytics, data trends and in some cases even autonomous actions. Downturns, and all the crazy in our world today have made it clear that the…

  • Effectively Merge Current and Newly Acquired SCADA Data

    Jim Cahill
    Mergers and acquisitions are a part of life in the oil patch in any economic environment. Sometimes those transactions are fast and furious making our heads spin because of the amount of opportunity they can quickly deliver. The steps taken after the sales transaction has occurred are what really determines the value of the long-term return. Sure, it was hard work putting the deal together and making sure everything…

  • Advancing Upstream Oil and Gas Production Autonomous Operations

    Jim Cahill
    Given the remote locations, from offshore platforms to distant onshore well pads, the oil & gas production industry has always led the way in remote operations advancements. In a 4-part available on demand webinar series, Journey to Autonomous Oil & Gas Production , Emerson’s Aaron Boettcher , Adin Nand and Evan West share ways for oil & gas producers to effectively use automation technology to drive digital transformation…

  • Smarter Rod Pump Management through Advanced Analytics, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

    Jim Cahill
    With technology supported by our experts, we offer comprehensive solutions to our customers’ challenges. We have developed Emerson’s Zedi Autonomous Rod Pump Management for an advanced solution using artificial intelligence with machine learning capabilities. What is an Autonomous Rod Pump? Autonomous Rod Pump Management is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) application (analytics engine) that identifies anomalies on…

  • Multiphase Flow and Virtual Flow Metering

    Jim Cahill
    Flow measurement is critical in oil & gas production operations to measure the oil, gas and water content of producing wells for fiscal allocation, well maintenance, and regulatory reporting. In an Oilfield Technology article, A Sense of What is to Come , Emerson’s Stian Engebretsen , Aurore Plougoulen and Lars Anders Ruden describe technology advancements driving improvements in these flow measurements. They open highlighting…

  • The Industry’s Top Subsea Wetgas Meter

    Jim Cahill
    We must marvel at the ingenuity of the first oil and gas producers to tackle subsea production – pioneers who completed the first subsea well on the ocean floor, offshore in California in 1961. Building a wellsite on the seabed invokes a whole new set of difficulties, presenting operators with specific requirements and unique challenges. Fortunately, technology has advanced from those early days to modern, sophisticated…

  • Podcast: Increase Storage Terminal Capacity through Loading and Unloading Optimization

    Jim Cahill
    Your Terminal Management System (TMS) handles all the data and business logic required to secure site access to load (or unload) vehicles. The TMS communicates directly with a wide array of physical devices from gate controls to preset batch controllers, with the latter automating and controlling product flow. It plays a large part in your midstream process management and business strategy, as well as how efficiently…

  • Optimizing Oil and Gas Artificial Lift with Cloud-based SCADA

    Jim Cahill
    In an Emerson Exchange Americas virtual series presentation, Emerson’s Evan West discusses ways to optimize artificial lift techniques using cloud-based Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) technologies. Here is his presentation abstract: Tighter CAPEX [capital expenditures] has put more emphasis on a BOE [barrel of oil equivalent] replacement strategy that includes optimizing oil and gas production from…

  • Technologies for Autonomous Oil and Gas Production

    Jim Cahill
    In an Emerson Exchange America’s presentation, Cloud & Edge Computing for Autonomous Oil & Gas Production Operations, Emerson’s Julian Sanchez , Tanner Erickson and Cody Edgerton highlight ways to drive more efficient production operations. Here is their presentation abstract: Autonomous production is the vision for operators that are seeking to digitally transform, with the greater goal of putting oil and gas on a…

  • Oil and Gas Control Line Impact Protection

    Jim Cahill
    Let’s end the week with a quick video about impact protection for oil & gas production upper completion applications or horizontal and open hole sections. Watch this quick 2-minute PolyOil Manufacturing Processes video to see how PolyOil Control Line Poly-Tector polymer clamps are manufactured in Emerson’s Aberdeen, Scotland facility.  Applications for the clamps include ESP, Gauge Line, Fiber Optic/DTS, Chemical…

  • Integrated Gas Metering Systems

    Jim Cahill
    Gas metering systems are the cash registers for custody transfer between companies. At the Emerson Exchange Americas Virtual Series, Emerson’s Juan Najera shares some best practices in designing and operating these gas metering systems. Here is his presentation abstract: Accurate flow measurement is the key in custody transfer applications. To ensure a reliable measurement in energy transactions, it is required to incorporate…

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