How to Improve Frac Tank Monitoring With Automation

Frac tanks are commonly used across the oil and gas industry during hydraulic fracturing, flowback, and produced water management. In the fracking process, they store large volumes of water, chemicals, and proppants used to create the fracturing fluid, ensuring a continuous supply to the well site. According to a report by Ceres, around 5 to 6 million … Read more

How to Improve Frac Tank Monitoring with Automation

In a pinch? Use our frac tank volume calculator to get a quick strap from your frac tank level gauge. Frac tanks are essential in the oil and gas drilling process, and as you’ll read below, frac tank level gauges and frac tank level monitoring are crucial to supporting frac tank operations.  We rely on these portable metal … Read more

Achieve Immediate ROI with WellAware’s Chemical Automation Solutions

WellAware’s cutting-edge automation technology and data-driven insights are revolutionizing operational efficiency in the chemical automation sector. Our solutions demonstrate strong, evidence-based return on investment (ROI), with thousands of units in the field showcasing daily success for our customers. Through a combination of labor optimization, fuel reduction, lower capital equipment costs, improved injection variance, and lower … Read more

Why Oilfield Water Services Companies Should Automate

As we all know, water is critical for oil and gas well completions. According to the USGS, a single frac job could need up to 16 million gallons of water. Of course, we’ve been fracturing during completions for well over a decade now, so why the focus on water? We’ve covered ESG extensively in our content, but … Read more

Can I install automation if my site doesn’t have cell coverage?

Oilfield automation systems, including things like tank level monitoring and remote pump control, require an internet connection to send data. Unless the devices are connected to a completely air-gapped SCADA system, they’ll connect to the internet at some point. Note: Most modern SCADA systems now use cloud-based data historians like those offered by AWS. Even if … Read more

Should you buy a submersible or external tank level sensor?

When you invest in tank level monitoring, perhaps the most critical question you have to answer is: What type of sensor should I choose? A while back we published a very popular blog to help people choose between sensor options, including hydrostatics, ultrasonics, floats, radars, and capacitive style tank level sensors. You can read that here: Choosing … Read more

Freezing temperatures mean lost sales for oil & gas operators

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

How to automate hydrate inhibitor in oil and gas operations

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

What is Pump Control? What You Need to Know About Pump Automation

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

How to Export SCADA Data into Production Software

Production engineers use a number of tools to help them optimize production from oil and gas wells, ranging from Artificial Lift Optimization software to Business Intelligence to good ol’ Excel. One of the most important pieces of software that any Production Engineer uses, however, is Production Software. “Production Software” – a somewhat vague term that can … Read more

Why Bluetooth Makes Sense as an Edge IIoT Network

The industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is completely transforming how most organizations operate today. Through the power of smart technology and wireless networking, leaders can automate manufacturing and industrial processes that would otherwise require human intervention. Looking ahead, the potential for innovation is enormous. According to Quince Market Insights, the IIoT market is currently valued at $82B. … Read more

Keys to Successfully Installing a Tank Level Monitoring System

Tank level monitoring systems are great for industrial companies that want to mitigate problems, automate processes, and more. However, to add value, tank level monitors have to provide accurate and reliable data. And one of the most important factors in making this happen is getting installation right.  A proper installation will set your smart tank sensors … Read more

Three Ways to Take Tank Level Monitoring to the Next Level

In our last blog post, we discussed how remote tank level monitoring (TLM) helps us solve major industrial challenges (TL;DR: you can avoid MANY issues with accurate, reliable tank data). Here, we explore three ways you can take your tank level monitoring solution to the next level by expanding your remote monitoring and automation capabilities. We’ll touch on: We’ve … Read more

The 5 Industries that Benefit the Most from Tank Level Monitoring

We’ve talked a lot about what remote tank monitoring is and how we implement it through our latest blog series. In this post, we zoom out and discuss how tank level monitoring is actually used in different industries to achieve meaningful business results. After all, that is the goal. So, what types of businesses have the most to gain … Read more

What is Remote Tank Level Monitoring? How to win with TLM

The goal of any IoT project is to generate trustworthy data that empowers people and processes to deliver results. Yet, it can be intimidating to plunge right into such a new and exciting world. We get it. For this reason, we see many organizations dip their toes in the IoT water with remote tank level monitoring (TLM). Tank monitoring … Read more