For oil and gas production in shale regions, what are some ways technologies can optimize capital costs and ongoing production performance?
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Onshore Direct from the Wellhead Multiphase Flow Measurement
Indications keep coming in that the oil & gas production business, particularly in unconventional oil & gas production, continues to improve. This RBN Energy article, Ready To Run - Strong Capex Boost By ConocoPhillips Headlines Early 2018 Guidance is one...
Multiphase Metering for Onshore Oil and Gas Wells
U.S. oil production, led by shale production, "…could pass 9.9 million barrels per day in December 2017", according to Rystad Energy. Oil and gas producers have continued to find ways to reduce capital expenditures on new production and optimize ongoing operational...
Optimizing Shale Oil and Gas Production
While the news of an OPEC oil freeze increases prices, at least in the short term, they remain well below their levels of a few years ago. The focus for oil and gas producers remains on optimizing their current producing wells at the expense of new drilling. Emerson's...
Increasing Refinery Flexibility to Handle Wide-Ranging Feedstocks
The complexity in crude oil refining has grown due to many factors including mix of crude oil feedstocks, government regulations, and increasingly global customer base for refined product. In a Hydrocarbon Processing article, Improve refinery flexibility and...
Crude Oil Property Variability Requires Real-time Analysis
Recently, we highlighted a recorded webinar on the use of online analyzers in refinery blending operations. The presenters, Emerson's Patrick Truesdale and Topnir Systems' Didier Lambert, also recently wrote a Processing Shale Feedstocks article, Three steps to...
Challenges in Refining Tight Oil
If you're like me you may have you wondered why with all the U.S. shale oil production, there are calls to change federal law to allow exports even though the U.S is a large oil importer. The answer comes to me in an excellent Chemical Engineering Progress (CEP)...
Improving Capital Efficiency in Well Pad Automation
A colleague pointed me to an article with an in depth analysis on the reasons behind the drop in oil price over the past several months. This economic climate makes oil & gas production project and operational efficiency even more important. At last summer's...
Light Tight Oil and Heat Exchanger Fouling
I received an email of a new whitepaper, Heat Exchanger Challenges with Light Tight Crude! written by Emerson's Tim Olsen. Tim is a consultant on our refining industry team and has shared his expertise in numerous refining-related posts here on the blog. The rapid...
Challenges in Processing Opportunity Crudes
Additional sources of oil, such as shale oil, coming into the market can pose challenges for refiners. The challenge comes from mixing these "opportunity crudes" with other types of crude oil that may have very different physical properties. As a Digital Refining...
Optimizing Ethylene Furnace Operations on Low-Cost Ethane Feedstock
For manufacturers with energy intensive processes, such as the petrochemical industry, the shale oil and gas boom in North America has led to lower feedstock costs. In this short, 1:34 video, Emerson's James Beall describes some of the challenges faced by plants to...
Energy Industry Leaders Gather at CERAWeek 2014
Author: Douglas MorrisThe 33rd annual CERAWeek Conference, led by Daniel Yergin, was held this week in Houston, Texas USA. This year's event very much echoed the theme from the last couple of conferences and focused on unconventional oil and gas. The effects of these...
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