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Our clients include E&P operators; manufacturing plants; facilities; and water treatment centers.
Oil & Gas
Creating Efficient Operations
In today's oil and gas market, adding efficiencies into every aspect of the business is critical to remain competitive. We focus on implementing systems and methodologies to improve efficiency in upstream, midstream, downstream and offshore operations.
Going Beyond SCADA
Let us help you set up your facilities for optimal operations. Oil and gas companies try to balance the need for automating their facilities with the amount of manpower it takes to provide regular operations and maintenance. Modern-day SCADA systems allow operators to focus more on the current state of the field equipment and maintenance concerns rather than manual production reporting.
Our services include:
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Communication architecture to prevent bandwidth limitations
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Add instrumentation to increase data acquisition
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Metering and Ticketing Management
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Pipeline Monitoring Leak Detection
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Pressure and Flow Monitoring
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Pump Management
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Point-to-point Verification
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Alarm Notification Escalation Workflow Development
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Diagnostics Summary
Case Study
End-to-end Supervisory Control Platform for Remote Instruments
Developing and commissioning of a remote SCADA system for the management of midstream assets
CHALLENGE:
After acquiring multiple pipeline assets, Align Midstream had no visibility into the overall performance across the entire fleet. This was a problem for productivity analysis, as well as, maintenance.
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SOLUTIONS PROVIDED:
SCADA Implementation
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ICONICS Gensis 64 Web Client Development
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Meter Detail displays easy updates on performance
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Hyper Historian for meter detail logging
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Alarms with SMS and email notifications
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Real-time performance monitoring and calculations
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KepServer OPC Suite
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Configured, virtualized and deployed OPC server
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Designed integration using standard protocols
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Enabled remote polling of live data
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Commissioning
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FAT
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SAT
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Commissioning
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Post-commissioning support
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System Troubleshooting
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Training
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System related training for personnel
TOOLS & TECHNOLOGIES:
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ABB Total Flow Meters
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Remote Valve Control via PCCU
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ICONICS Genesis 64
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ICONICS Hyper Historian
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Alarm Notifications & Escalations
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KepServer OPC Suite
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Production Optimization Services
Once you have an operational SCADA system, we can transform facilities monitoring into a historical data-driven surveillance operation that provides real-time diagnostics of a particular well or the field-wide asset health.
Using time-series data and fluid properties, we can provide gas field production optimization and management services that include:
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Cost Savings
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Efficient Delivery & Coordination
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Optimize the Gas Volume from Wells
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Real-time Production Diagnostics & Optimization
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Flow Induced Erosion & Corrosion Control
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Detection of Flow Reduction (hindrance) due to Solids Build-up (deposition)
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Identification of Solids such as Sand, Scale, or Corrosion
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Chemical Injection Surveillance & Optimization
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Identification of Near Wellbore Formation Damage
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Optimization of Dehydration System using Actual Produced Gas Flow in Real-time
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Workover Schedule on the Individual Well
Additional Production Optimization Services
Artificial Lift Design & Analysis
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Gas Lift
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Submersible / Downhole Pumps (ESP)
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Plunger Lift
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Rod Pumps
Reservoir Characterization
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Seismic Data Acquisition
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Seismic Interpretation
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Geological Correlation
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Sedimentology Studies
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3D Geological Modeling
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Petrophysical Modeling
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Permeability Modeling
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Coring & Convetional & Special Core Analysis
Production
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Production Data Analysis & Optimization
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Flow Assurance
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Decline Curve Analysis
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Sand Control
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Formation Damage Control & Diagnostics
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Nodal Analysis
3D Reservoir Simulation
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Black Oil
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Compositional
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Coupled Geomechanics
Formation Evaluation
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Well Log Analysis & Interpretation
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Well Test Analysis & Interpretation
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Rock-fluid Interaction Studies
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Fluid Analysis
Energy Storage
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Natural Gas Storage
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Inventory Verification
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Storage Facilities Design & Automation
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Acid Gas Injection
Manufacturing
Custom Solutions for the Problem
Time is money for manufacturers. The more output from production lines, the more goods and materials you can offer the market.
We help manufacturing plants optimize production line efficiency by implementing custom designed SCADA systems to meet your business objectives.
CASE STUDY
A Fire Destroys Fiberglass Facility and SOAP Rebuilds Production Line in 8 Weeks
CHALLENGE:
On March 13, 2016 Champion Fiberglass experienced a business owner's nightmare - a fire that destroyed their entire manufacturing facility. The company needed to revive one of their two production lines within 6 weeks in order to maintain their order commitments to waiting customers.
The project would require merging the code from 3 PLCs into 1, mounting sensors, replacing all the old buttons with HMI touchscreens, creating a redundant communication path, and creating an HMI program to help reduce troubleshooting time.
SOLUTION:
An 'All-Hands-On-Deck', get the job done, end-to-end custom design. We deployed an automation team, a panel design team, an HMI programming team, a wiring team, a sensor mounting team, and a testing team to simultaneously implement and coordinate the various parts of the project. Due to the time constraints, we couldn't afford delays, and had to reorganize our standard process into several subset, co-existing projects that would ultimately come together in perfect order to create a full SCADA operation.
In the end, the insurance company said this was the fastest rebuild they had ever seen. We managed to get the production line up and running within 8 weeks; a two-week delay caused by fire damage creating mechanical malfunctions with a gear box that didn't match a motor and lead to hydraulic leaks in the underground plumbing.
TECHNOLOGIES IMPLEMENTED:
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ICONICS Genesis 64
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Red Lion HMI
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Yaskawa
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Facilities
Reducing HSE Risks
Cryogenic, refining, water and chemical process facilities require strict safety protocols to meet HSE regulations. Our certified engineers follow strict regulatory standards to add additional business value beyond just safety.
CASE STUDY
Flood Prevention Using Automation and Predictive Analytics
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CHALLENGE:
The Colorado River Authority was manually monitoring 11 locks and dams along the Tombigbee Waterway in Mississippi. Periodic readings of the water levels were recorded by field technicians who would later report the information via radio to the central control center. These reports were used to control the opening and closing of the 72 gates that would increase/decrease the water flow in accordance with the water levels to mitigate the risk of flooding.
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SOLUTION:
We designed and implemented a fully automated process that eliminated the need for manual readings, and enabled the control center to use a predictive modeling tool we built to help them proactively monitor flood risk based on historical weather forecasts and corresponding rainfall.
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TECHNOLOGIES IMPLEMENTED:
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​SCADAPack
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Indusoft HMI
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Telepace PLC
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LabView