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  • iOps Command Centers Connect Experts Together

    Jim Cahill
    The growing need for experience and rapidly advancing high-bandwidth communications technology is driving new thinking among process manufacturers on how they manage their operations. The authors of the book, Integrated Operations in the Oil and Gas Industry...

  • 5 Ways to Maximize Gas Sales in Oil Production

    Jim Cahill
    Author: Lee Rumbles Handling excess gas that vaporizes from crude while in a holding tank is a problem. Options, none of which are ideal, include: vent the tank to the atmosphere, flare or combust the gas, or route gas to a Vapor Recovery Unit (VRU) where...

  • Subsea Well Wireless Pressure and Temperature Measurement

    Jim Cahill
    The news continues to flow out from the 2014 Offshore Technology Conference in Houston. One piece of news, as reported by Rigzone, is Emerson Deploys Downhole Wireless Sensor System on Statoil’s Skuld Field. From the press release: Emerson Process Management...

  • How to Prove Your LACT Meter

    Jim Cahill
    Author: Rossella Mimmi Lease Automatic Custody Transfer (LACT) units provide a method to transfer the ownership of crude oil from the production facilities to pipelines or trucks. Their use is constantly increasing due to the many advantages they present...

  • Production Optimization via Coriolis Diagnostics

    Jim Cahill
    Emerson’s Laura Schafer described how diagnostics in a Micro Motion Coriolis flow measurement in oil & gas production. Laura opened with the objective for oil & gas producers to maximize the return on investment. One way to do this is to take advantage...

  • Unconventional O&G Shale Production – Leveraging Best Practices Globally

    Jim Cahill
    Emerson’s Michael Machuca, a member of the upstream Oil & Gas team in the Flow Solutions Group shares his expertise in an Emerson Exchange Stuttgart presentation, Unconventional O&G Shale Production – Leveraging Best Practices Globally. His abstract:...

  • Real-Time Well Testing on Unmanned Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms

    Jim Cahill
    If you’ll be joining us next week at the Emerson Exchange conference in Stuttgart, Germany and in the offshore oil & gas production business, there’s a presentation you’ll want to catch. Emerson’s Jyotsna Joshi, with the Roxar Flow Measurement (RFM) team...

  • Custody Transfer for Natural Gas Liquids

    Jim Cahill
    As described by MarketRealist, raw natural gas from wells contains numerous components. While mostly methane, a dry gas, and wet gases including ethane, propane, normal butane, isobutane, and natural gasoline, along with water, carbon dioxide, and sulfur...

  • Lease Automation Custody Transfer Units

    Jim Cahill
    Author: Rossella MimmiIf you’ve been around the oil & gas business, particularly in North America, you’re likely familiar with the LACT acronym. Lease Automatic Custody Transfer is the point where the custody of oil is transferred from the producer to...

  • Optimize Separator Flow Points

    Jim Cahill
    The separation process in upstream holds the key to maximizing oil and gas production. We’ve explored the importance of flow measurement for separators, now let’s examine ways in which these flow points can be optimized so they help achieve your operational...

  • Critical Safety Shutdown Valve Actuators for United Kingdom

    Jim Cahill
    Imagine 30% of a country’s energy supply relying on two safety shutdown valves to flow natural gas and liquid condensate safely from offshore oil & gas production platforms to an onshore processing facility. It’s critical that the valve actuators reliably...

  • Importance of Flow Measurement for Separators

    Jim Cahill
    Hi, I’m Lee Rumbles and today we’re going to explore the importance of flow measurement in the oil and gas separation process. Understanding what’s truly going on in your process is a key to success. Without this insight it’s difficult to tell – are we...

  • Pipeline Natural Gas Allocation System Case Study

    Jim Cahill
    In the oil and gas industry, allocation: …refers to practices of breaking down measures of quantities of extracted hydrocarbons across various contributing sources.[1] Emerson’s Mehmet Duzen shared a case study with the readers of Flow Control magazine...

  • Meeting the Challenge of Changing Global Energy Supplies

    Jim Cahill
    This post originally appeared over at the Emerson South Korean blog earlier today to celebrate the 200th translated Emerson Process Experts post shared with process manufacturers in South Korea. Thanks to the South Korean Emerson team for their efforts...

  • Operator Training System for Deepwater Oil and Gas Redevelopment Project

    Jim Cahill
    One of the reoccurring themes I heard at the recent Emerson Exchange conference for process manufacturers modernizing their control systems was the early engagement of operators in training systems. I met with Emerson’s Ronnie Bains a few months back...

  • High Pressure Protective Systems for Oil and Gas Producers

    Jim Cahill
    A North Carolina State University course, Introduction to Fugitive Emissions Monitoring, defines fugitive emissions as: …used in air quality control, generally refers to any emission escaping from regulated processes (sources) other than via the designed...

  • Offshore Oil & Gas Platform Machinery Protection and Prediction Systems Results

    Jim Cahill
    The harsh, corrosive environment found on offshore oil & gas platforms can lead to unplanned downtime and lost production when equipment fails. A Scandinavian Oil-Gas magazine article, Upgraded Online Protection and Prediction Systems Improve Machinery...

  • Vibration and Process Data Spot Turbo-Expander Problem

    Jim Cahill
    Many industrial processes require refrigeration, such as in the extraction of ethane and natural gas liquids (NGLs) from natural gas. From Wikipedia, a turboexpander: …also referred to as a turbo-expander or an expansion turbine, is a centrifugal or axial...

  • Rolling Out Emerson’s Management System for Bulk-Liquids Terminals

    Jim Cahill
    Hi. It’s Chris Womack again, with another tidbit about terminals. If you haven’t seen it yet, an article in the July-August issue of Tank Storage magazine adds a little update about Emerson’s partnership with Vopak, the world’s largest bulk-liquids storage...

  • Wirelessly Monitoring Offshore Africa Oil and Gas Platform

    Jim Cahill
    A major oil & gas producer needed a way to improve the accuracy of its measurements and develop its offshore monitoring processes off the coast of Africa. Emerson’s Ali Alkasah shared this story with me and noted that platform personnel were conducting...

  • Condensing Wet Shale Gas for Natural Gas Liquids

    Jim Cahill
    Gas compression technology comes in many flavors including centrifugal, reciprocating, screw, and scroll. In a Hydrocarbon Engineering article, Playing it Cool, Emerson’s Mark McCormick shared how shale gas processing has increased the need for rotary...

  • Formation Kicks and Wellbore Ballooning in Oil and Gas Wells

    Jim Cahill
    Controlling the oil and gas drilling process is about managing the pressure and fluids from the reservoir with the hydrostatic pressure in the drilling mud. From Wikipedia’s well drilling entry: Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) is defined by the International...

  • Synchronized Information for Proving Oil Sands Extraction Process

    Jim Cahill
    A Control magazine article, A Data-Driven Search For Oil, captures the results of integrating intelligent devices, the automation system, and plant wide history to improve productivity of oil extraction from the oil sands of Northern Alberta, Canada....

  • Packaged Applications for Shale Gas Processing

    Jim Cahill
    The 92nd Annual Gas Processors Association (GPA) Convention was held last week, down the road from me in San Antonio, Texas. Two of the Emerson business platforms, Emerson Process Management and Emerson Climate Technologies were there to show ways technologies...

  • Measuring Hydrocarbon Dew Point with Gas Chromatographs

    Jim Cahill
    One of the challenges in measuring hydrocarbon gases is the precipitation 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...

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