This blog is the fifth excerpt from The State of Oilfield Chemicals in 2022. Each week, we’ll release an additional excerpt as a blog. For those that want to read ahead, click the link here. Note: To produce this article, dozens of oilfield services stakeholders were interviewed. Due to the highly competitive nature of the oilfield services … Read more
This blog is the fourth excerpt from The State of Oilfield Chemicals in 2022. Each week, we’ll release an additional excerpt as a blog. For those that want to read ahead, click the link here. Note: To produce this article, dozens of oilfield services stakeholders were interviewed. Due to the highly competitive nature of the oilfield services … Read more
This blog is the third excerpt from The State of Oilfield Chemicals in 2022. Each week, we’ll release an additional excerpt as a blog. For those that want to read ahead, click the link here. Note: To produce this article, dozens of oilfield services stakeholders were interviewed. Due to the highly competitive nature of the oilfield services … Read more
This blog is the second excerpt from The State of Oilfield Chemicals in 2022. Each week, we’ll release an additional excerpt as a blog. For those that want to read ahead, click the link here Note: To produce this article, dozens of oilfield services stakeholders were interviewed. Due to the highly competitive nature of the oilfield services … Read more
This blog is the first excerpt from The State of Oilfield Chemicals in 2022. Each week, we’ll release an additional excerpt as a blog. For those that want to read ahead, click the link here. Note: To produce this article, dozens of oilfield services stakeholders were interviewed. Due to the highly competitive nature of the oilfield services … Read more
Everywhere you look, signs of the holiday seasons have appeared. Carved pumpkins have rotted and been discarded in favor of string lights and inflatable Santas, your local gym is playing Jingle Bells, and Starbucks is serving those (unbearable) pumpkin spice things they call coffee 🤮. And while the signs of the holidays might bring joy … Read more
Corrosion inhibitors may be the single most important chemistry applied in the oil and gas industry. Used to protect wells, pipelines, tanks, compressors, and nearly every other kind of downhole or surface equipment, corrosion inhibitors are the backbone of a good asset integrity program designed to keep equipment failure rates at bay. Without corrosion inhibitors, … Read more
It’s common knowledge in the oilfield that, as the weather turns colder, methanol use ramps up. Operators across the globe turn to methanol, and hydrate inhibitors like it, to prevent serious operational issues. But what, exactly, is methanol used for in oil & gas? How do hydrate inhibitors in oil and gas work? And most … Read more
If your job involves managing oilfield specialty chemicals, no doubt you’ve considered implementing chemical tank level monitoring. Maybe you’ve even set up a few chemical tank level sensors here and there to try it out. Whether you work for an oilfield chemical service provider, a producer, or a pipeline company, you probably have the same question about your chemical … Read more
In our last blog post, we gave an overview of the four types of sensors most commonly used in wastewater treatment facilities. Now we want to zoom in and take a closer look at how sensors help us measure water quality in particular. Maintaining water quality is crucial, of course, because nobody wants to drink, bathe, or use … Read more
Sensors are the foundation of water treatment control systems. They are what originally convert physical parameters from equipment and processes into digital information that machines and people can use. Put simply, water treatment plant control without sensors is a non-starter. Period. To understand what can be monitored, controlled, or automated in a water treatment plant, many are … Read more
Water treatment plant controls are used to monitor and control wastewater treatment plants, an absolute essential in the modern world. Today, 15,000 waste treatment plants help us clean domestic sewage gathered from nearly 1,000,000 miles of pipeline. In the U.S. and Europe alone, humans generate around 67 billion cubic meters of wastewater every year, all of which require treatment … Read more
Pumps are everywhere and critical to industrial processes involving liquids. The oilfield is no different! Pumps come in all shapes and sizes – some inject a few trickles a day while others pump tens of thousands of gallons a minute. Pumps tend to be one of the biggest energy consumers in industrial operations. Pump motors, specifically, … Read more
Pumps are the backbone of numerous industrial processes. We use pumps today in dozens of industries – oil and gas, wastewater treatment, manufacturing, facilities management, and more – to move millions of gallons of water, crude oil, chemicals, and lubricants. In essence, wherever there are liquids, there are pumps. Pumps use mechanical energy to pressurize liquids … Read more
Water tanks are everywhere. We use water tanks in many industries, from oil and gas to agriculture. That’s why remote water tank monitoring is important. To maintain control of their operations, engineers and managers need to know how much water is in their tanks at all times. Many also use tank-level data to inform other processes, like turning … Read more