By Olav Cramer This article was written about 2 busts ago with the help of some good friends in the pumpjack maintenance business. Some have retired, and some are still around, but as our collective memories are hampered by the exodus of the Boomer generation and as most of this is still quite relevant I feel
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Take-aways from a Conference on Oil and Gas Facilities Design
By Olav Cramer Tight Oil &Shale Gas Well Site Facilities Design Western Canada 2014 I just attended the Tight Oil & Shale Gas Well Site Facilities Design conference Dec 9,10 in Calgary in the hope to better understand what our clientele is looking for from vendors such as OilPro. The results: Very worthwhile; The quality of
Recommended Practice for Extinguishing a Firetube Fire in a Treater or FWKO
OilPro was recently contacted by one of its clients working for a major oil company in Nigeria about firetube fires in treaters. A formal operating procedure is not yet written by anyone we know of, but in the spirit of sharing know-how we would like to share the currently best-known way to minimize injuries to
Baffled by Baffles?
Pressure vessels are sometimes referred to as ‘cans’, but we know there’s more to it than that. The internals in production equipment can make all the difference when cleaning oil, gas, water or solids from production streams. You may wonder why one 10′ treater costs over $ 1Million and a smaller vertical one costs under
Get Your Treater to Treat You Right
“Treating systems have long been one of the most expensive and troublesome of all lease surface equipment. Also, there is little data available to accurately size treating equipment, and as a result, treating equipment is frequently over or undersized,” according to C. Richard Sivalls, of Sivalls Inc., manufacturer of onshore and offshore production equipment since