Month: November 2020

For oil and gas companies used to boom and bust cycles, this downturn seems different. There’s no turning back from some of the permanent, structural shifts driven by the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, COVID-19 accelerated trends already underway. Customer service and technology expectations, generational preferences, and global demand for cleaner energy … Read more

What is the Enhanced Production Audit Program (EPAP)? EPAP is a program that helps companies improve their measurement and reporting processes, in order to meet AER requirements in Alberta and MER in Saskatchewan. Meeting AER & MER requirements are mandatory and beneficial to your entire organization. With an excellent understanding of EPAP and related business … Read more

Take all guesswork out of maintenance decisions and reduce the possibilities of human error with Mettler Toledo’s Intelligent System Management (ISM)! This cutting-edge measurement system utilizes intelligent sensors that learn from your processes which will lower your instrument lifecycle as well as production costs. BENEFITS Error Free Measurement Reduce Maintenance time by 60% Robust Digital Signal Advance Diagnostics … Read more

Full Disclosure: The author of this article (Mark Kuppe, CEO at Acero Engineering) is a die-hard Oil and Gas advocate especially for Oil and Gas extracted from the cleanest place on planet earth – Western Canada.  The author also loves mother earth and doesn’t feel that the passion for oil and gas extraction in Western … Read more

Groundwater monitoring at licenced facilities and other government-sanctioned activities has been ongoing for decades. Over time, many of these monitoring networks have evolved into substantial systems requiring routine sampling and maintenance. With that, the annual costs associated with this approval-required monitoring can be substantial. As you start planning for your 2021 monitoring program, have you … Read more

By Vista Projects What does a cloud computing platform have to do with the oil and gas industry? The answer: mass data aggregation and accessibility. Digital Oilfield Outlook The Digital Oilfield Outlook Report 2020 explores the state of the oil and gas sector’s digital transformation. In what is perhaps the biggest indication of how the … Read more

Jim Boucher, former chief of the Fort McKay First Nation, will help raise profile of Acceleware | Kisâstwêw as company works toward commercialization By Deborah Jaremko Follow CEC on Linkedin  CEC Linkedin Follow CEC on Facebook CEC Facebook Follow CEC on Twitter CEC Twitter Former Fort McKay chief Jim Boucher, founder of the Saa Dene Group of Companies. Photograph … Read more

“A team you can count on. A product you can trust.” Steam assisted gravity drainage or SAGD is a method that is widely used to extract bitumen from underground bitumen deposits. This method involves forcing steam into sub-surface oil deposits to heat the bitumen locked in the sand, allowing it to flow well enough to … Read more

A Canadian energy transportation company relied on STEP Energy Services for technical and infield execution of its recertification pressure test during a time-sensitive outage. STEP was chosen for this important pressure test because of safe work practices, personnel experience in pipeline pressure testing, engineering simulation and planning techniques, and STEP’s state of the art in-field, … Read more

Western Canada has a challenge. And an opportunity. The challenge is that due to global focus on reducing greenhouse gases, fluctuating prices and demand for fossil fuels, and increased public scrutiny on the oil and gas industry in general, it is necessary for us to look for new ways to diversify and respond to these … Read more

November 25, 20205:40 AM XI Technologies Each week, XI Technologies scans its unique combination of enhanced industry data to provide trends and insights that have value for professionals doing business in the WCSB. If you’d like to receive our Wednesday Word to the Wise in your inbox, subscribe here.  As Alberta’s oilfields continue to age and some … Read more

Green Cargo: Rimini Street has become one of five trusted strategic IT partners as Green Cargo looks to implement its agile, low-code IT model. The company knew Rimini Street could be depended on to secure, stabilize, and improve its critical SAP ECC6 EHP 7 platform for many years to come, identifying 24 possible activities where … Read more

Overview The first four parts of this series have described the updated Becht HTHA model and presented extensive validation for its application to Carbon Steel and C-0.5Mo.  Based on this validation, time-based Nelson Curves for Carbon Steel (CS) and C-0.5Mo suitable for inclusion in API RP 941 [1] are now presented. General Assumptions Curves are … Read more

Hydraulic and Pneumatic cylinders have become high tech. By incorporating position sensing (SMART) technology, mobile hydraulic and industrial applications are seeing major benefits in operations where productivity is everything. The technology has been around for decades, but after years of field experience and refinement, SMART cylinders have proven to be extremely reliable, even in harsh … Read more

VEERUM delivers a modern solution to your organization’s business continuity needs with current digital tools, enabling remote collaboration. The Asset Visualization and Information Platform acts as a collaboration platform, a digital system of record for the entire asset lifecycle, and displays real-time asset information for decision making. VEERUM aggregates your existing asset information into a … Read more

“Just because people throw it out and don’t have any use for it, doesn’t mean it’s garbage.” – Andy Warhol. By Brent Lyon, Director Regional Business Development The Challenge Squeezing every drop of value out of a feedstock is something that humans have been doing for thousands of years. Getting more heat out of a … Read more

  As winter approaches, the days become shorter and colder. This puts stress on off-grid photovoltaic systems. Most facilities need a consistent supply of power, which leaves a power deficit in the winter season when solar production is low. This is exacerbated by the low temperature effects on battery efficiency. Furthermore, many of these systems … Read more

Connecting your legacy industrial cameras to Osperity’s Intelligent Visual Monitoring Platform is a very cost-effective way to benefit from exception-based video analytics Osperity’s flexible open platform is a camera agnostic system which makes it easy to onboard industrial rated legacy cameras already installed in the field. If you have cameras on your site you likely … Read more

Our client is a global oil and gas company that was intent on digitizing their waste manifest process and increasing their efficiency during compliance audits. The list of functional requirements that needed to be considered in finding an appropriate solution included compliance with regulatory bodies, forms that were easy to use and understand, built-in intelligence … Read more

Challenge Expected well conditions anticipated the need for high concentration LCM to heal the hole without plugging the MWD or making a trip to lay down the directional tools. Solution Utilize EvoOne’s pulser anti-jam technology including its robust carbide rotor/stator and high torque 50:1 ratio drive line. EvoOne comes with eight mud pulse configurations to … Read more

Each week, XI Technologies scans its unique combination of enhanced industry data to provide trends and insights that have value for professionals doing business in the WCSB. If you’d like to receive our Wednesday Word to the Wise in your inbox, subscribe here.  In recent articles, we’ve been highlighting the different ways producers in the WCSB … Read more

Overview Part 3 of this series presented the data set and calibration used to characterize C-0.5Mo performance.  This part extends the calibration to Carbon Steel using the same basic calibration procedure.  Unlike C-0.5Mo where carbon activity was used as the calibration parameter, for Carbon Steel the carbon activity is assumed to be 1 in all … Read more

By Travis Sharpe When was the last time you got to experience the process in which pipe is fabricated? If you are answering “I haven’t”, then let me walk you through this life cycle. This process begins when the RFP and PO has ended. This scope is limited to pre-fabricated carbon steel piping. Step 1 … Read more