Efficiency, safety, uptime, and regulatory compliance are non-negotiable in oil and gas operations. From remote wellheads in the Permian Basin to high-throughput gas processing facilities along the Gulf Coast, operators face a constant challenge: keeping equipment running safely and profitably in increasingly complex and often unmanned environments. At the core of this challenge is SCADA—Supervisory … Read more
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
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
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
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
It’s a good time to be an oilfield water services company. Oil prices have stabilized above $100/bbl, the US rig count is the highest it’s been since pre-pandemic times, and the combination of domestic water shortages and ESG fund growth places a premium on sustainable water use. All together, oil & gas producers are willing to pay a premium for quality oilfield … Read more
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
This blog is the final excerpt from The State of Oilfield Chemicals in 2022. Note: To produce this article, dozens of oilfield services stakeholders were interviewed. Due to the highly competitive nature of the oilfield services market, all were interviewed under the condition of anonymity. As such, all names have been fictionalized to preserve that anonymity. … Read more
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
This blog is the seventh 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 sixth 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 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
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
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
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