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Formation Kicks and Wellbore Ballooning in Oil and Gas Wells
Source: Wikipedia, Author: TheConduqtor, http://jimc.me/1bJiFGcControlling the oil and gas drilling process is about managing the pressure and fluids from the reservoir with the hydrostatic pressure in...
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Subsea Well Wireless Pressure and Temperature Measurement
The news continues to flow out from the 2014 Offshore Technology Conference in Houston. One piece of news, as reported by Rigzone, is Emerson Deploys Downhole Wireless Sensor System on Statoil’s Skuld...
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Doubling Bunkering Deliveries with Certified Marine Bunker Measurement
Heavy fuel oil and marine gas oil are used in many marine applications. Wikipedia relates the term bunkering: …to storage of petroleum products in tanks (among other, disparate meanings.) The precise...
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Faster Subsea Hydraulic Equipment Startups
Offshore oil and gas producers use hydraulic power to operate much of their subsea equipment. This equipment includes valves, cylinders, motors, manifolds, blowout preventers and remote operated...
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Controlling Pressure when Testing Oil and Gas Well Bore Cement
For those not familiar with the oil & gas drilling process, the cement that is between the well bore and outside of the well casing is critical to the overall integrity of the well. PetroWiki...
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Measuring Subsea Well Annulus Pressure and Temperature
In one of last week’s Offshore Technology Conference-related posts, I mentioned the announcement of a Roxar downhole wireless pressure-temperature (PT) sensor system for the annulus B region. If you’re...
View ArticleTwo Decades Transmitting Pressure and Temperature from the Deep
A colleague alerted me to a great story of technological longevity. In our world of process automation, it’s not uncommon for product lives to be measured in decades. And, some of these control...
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