Slugs in your garden can help get rid of organic waste matter, but occasionally they can become a pest when they attack your newly planted rose bush. Slugs in oilfield pipelines are just as unavoidable; they bring a large amount of valuable hydrocarbon to the plant, but if slugs happen without some kind of control
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Separate Your Separators
Known by many different names – separators, filter separators, knockout pots, cyclone separators, centrifugal separators, vertical separators, SKUDs, horizontal separators, spherical separators, flash tanks, scrubbers, slug catchers, line drips, slug catcher, steam separator, sand separator – they are designed to do what their name suggests:separate whatever comes in. The main job of a separator is
Pressure Safety Valves- Protecting People and Equipment
Pressure vessels, such as the ones used in the oil and gas industry, are rated with a Maximum Allowed Working Pressure (MAWP). If this pressure is exceeded, the equipment can be seriously damaged or worse, an explosion or a fire or a combination may be the result. Keeping field workers safe is a priority so
Glycol Keeps Your Gas Dry
Canada is the fifth largest producer of natural gas in the world. With advancements in technology, accessing Canada’s vast natural gas reserves is easier using a combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. But there’s still a challenge removing produced water from the gas. Glycol dehydration is used as a drying agent to remove water
Corrosion is More than Just the Pits
Corrosion is an issue often associated with used production equipment.It can be quite alarming to see a steel shell on a pressure vessel pitted due to corrosion. This post will attempt to share some of the lessons learned from 20-year-old equipment are a good guide to ensuring that newer equipment remains usable for a long