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Lease Automatic Custody Transfer Components and Operation
The exchange of crude oil between seller and buyer is known as custody transfer. A simple example of this is the gas pump where you fill up your car. The pump must accurately measure the fuel and...
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Maximizing Production through Optimized Gas Lifting
The vast majority of oil wells require some type of artificial lift method to bring the wellbore fluids to the surface. Four major lift methods include: Electric submersible pump (ESP) Gas lift...
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CERAWeek Strategies for a New World
If you’re unfamiliar with CERAWeek, it is billed as: …the premier annual international gathering of energy industry leaders, experts, government officials and policymakers, leaders from the technology,...
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Getting More From Brownfield Production Sites in a Low Oil Price Environment
At CERAWeek 2016, a panel of experts steeped in the upstream oil business shared their ideas for improving efficiency of existing facilities, well pads and offshore platforms. The panel was chaired by...
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Driving Value and Safety in Current Oil Price Environment
This post is an excerpt of my post on the Top Quartile site. At CERAWeek 2016, Emerson president Ed Monser (pictured at right with CNBC’s Brian Sullivan) joined a distinguished panel including...
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Interview with Steve Sonnenberg on Opportunities for Top Quartile Performance
At this week’s IHS Energy CERAWeek conference in Houston, IHS Energy’s Kurt Barrow spoke with Emerson Process Management president Steve Sonnenberg about the imperatives of oil and gas upstream,...
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High Pressure and Temperature Sensors for Subsurface and Surface Oil and Gas...
In a Reuters article, Forget fracking. Choking, lifting latest efforts to stem U.S. shale bust, Andrew Slaughter, director for the Deloitte Center for Energy Solutions stated: Production optimization...
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Pressure Regulators in Upstream Oil and Gas Processing Applications
Managing pressures are a large part of the control strategies for upstream oil and gas applications. These pressures include those in the main processing lines, fuel lines and vapor spaces found in...
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Offshore Technology Conference 2016—Examine your Chemical Injection System
Author: Laura Schafer Take a moment and ask yourself: How much does my company spend every year on chemicals? For most, chemical injection is a sunk cost of production–it’s a cost that’s hard to tackle...
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Fundamentally Transforming Capital Project Planning and Execution
Executing capital projects grows increasingly difficult as their size and scope continues to expand. I caught up with Emerson’s Kevin Jackson who has witnessed this growth over time. Kevin notes that...
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Manual Level Gauging of Hydrocarbon Production Tanks
An NPR article, Mysterious Death Reveals Risk in Federal Oil Field Rules, highlights a big problem with rules by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management pertaining to manual tank level gauging. The...
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Integrated Operations Continue to Deliver Benefits in Today’s Oil Market
Authors: Jeff Dymond and Mike Boudreaux The reality of lower oil and gas prices is driving energy companies to operate differently. The lower price per barrel is squeezing profitability and pushing...
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Managing Oil and Gas Produced Fluids
Managing produced fluids in the age of shale oil and gas production has opened up some new challenges compared with the days of traditional reservoir production. I caught up with Emerson’s Michael...
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Buoyed Oil Prices, Buoyed Spirits at the Offshore Technology Conference
As I prepare to head over to Houston today for the Offshore Technology Conference, I see that oil prices have managed to sustain the gains they have made over the month of April. That should help lift...
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OTC 2016- Produced Fluids Management
Managing produced oil & gas fluids go through the phases of allocation royalty, centralized processing, tank management and transfers. The opportunities for inaccuracies and losses can be quite...
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OTC 2016-Flow Assurance
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...
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OTC 2016-Dynamic Lift Optimization
In these current times of lower oil prices, operational efficiency is a top priority along with cost control for oil and gas producers. The challenge is to maintain base production levels and extend...
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OTC 2016-Integrated Operations Command Centers
The more quickly experts can respond to changing conditions by interpreting the available information and collaborating with other cross-functional experts, the more safely, reliably and efficiently...
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Pipeline Management throughout the Lifecycle
This article, Throughout the Lifecycle, was first published in Oil & Gas Middle East magazine and is reposted here with permission. Sachin Tere, Business Development Manager, Flow Solutions –...
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Integrating Leak Detection and Custody Transfer for Pipeline Monitoring
Authors: Rossella Mimmi and Marc Buttler The importance of pipeline integrity is growing in the oil and gas industry. New regions of oil and gas production and growing demand are driving the...
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