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PBOG is the Official Publication of the Permian Basin Petroleum Association and is published monthly by Zachry Publications, LP.

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Automation Embraces Electrification

August 12, 2024 by PBOG

The oil and gas industry follows a trajectory that mirrors the progression of the world. There has been the pursuit of prosperity, certainly. But apart from that, the pursuit of information has in itself come to carry great significance and the accumulation of information brings with it power. As the oil and gas industry has […]

Filed Under: Automation, Controls and Measurement, Featured Article

Left to Their Own Devices

August 7, 2023 by PBOG

By Paul Wiseman   Overwatch Solutions owner Brandon Crate likes catching perpetrators on camera. Cognite’s Global VP of Partner Success, Prabu Parthasarathy, loves consolidating and freeing corporate data from siloes. ATI’s (Automation Technology Inc.) CEO, Cooper Etheridge, is dedicated to being able to relieve pipeline pressure to avoid problems. All three employ technology to automate […]

Filed Under: Automation, Controls and Measurement, Featured Article, Techonology

6 ways QuickSet is changing the game in gas lift

February 8, 2022 by PBOG

“Closed-loop” design eliminates fugitive methane emissions and more… The QuickSet™ skid by Liftrock is an environmentally friendly control system that eliminates methane emissions from gas lift operations and delivers other key operating advantages. Here is a look at how QuickSet is changing the game in gas lift, and how operators in the Permian are benefitting. […]

Filed Under: Advertising, Automation, Controls and Measurement, Environmental, Safety and Training

Innovators

August 12, 2019 by PBOG

Wells and technology both get more complex. Companies are applying their best minds, and best thinking, to the task of staying up with the changes. By Paul Wiseman “Sometimes I think—me personally, or WellWorx or the industry—that we’ll run out of ways to innovate or we’ll run out of good ideas,” said Matt Raglin, founder […]

Filed Under: Automation, Controls and Measurement, Featured Article, People, Techonology Tagged With: featured article, permian basin, production, Wells

The Art of Control

August 5, 2019 by PBOG

By Paul Wiseman To be a Basin business and be a mere four years old and have almost 100 employees—this is not the typical track for a Permian startup of recent vintage. But at Van Zandt Controls, Larry Richards and team have focused small to grow big. The news is always full of stories of […]

Filed Under: Automation, Controls and Measurement, Featured Article, People Tagged With: Automation, featured article, midstream, permian basin, Upstream, Van Zandt

The Keys to the Castle

July 1, 2019 by PBOG

Most cyber threats come, unintentionally, from within. By Paul Wiseman “We have met the enemy, and they are ours.” Admiral Oliver Perry, September 1813 “We have met the enemy, and he is us.” Walt Kelly, as quoted in a Pogo poster, April 1970 The average person receives 12 spam emails per day, totaling 4,000 per […]

Filed Under: Automation, Controls and Measurement, Environmental, Safety and Training, Featured Article Tagged With: cyber security, Feature, featured

I.T. is what I.T. is

March 4, 2019 by PBOG

In the field and in the back office, information technology, and the automation that arises from it, continues to boost efficiency. This is not your father’s automation. By Paul Wiseman   For decades, oilfield automation was controlled by devices called Programmable Logic Controllers. A PLC is  a small, limited function computer that controls process in […]

Filed Under: Automation, Controls and Measurement, Featured Article Tagged With: Feature, featured

Keep That Data Secure

August 31, 2015 by PBOG

By Shanti Terry The digital world is one filled with dangers for all industries, and oil and gas is no exception. Industries that make up our nation’s critical infrastructure, like the energy sector, remain constant targets from entities outside the United States who mean to do as much harm as possible for their own gain. […]

Filed Under: Automation, Controls and Measurement, Communications, Internet, and Auctioneers, Environmental, Safety and Training, Featured Article, Techonology Tagged With: cyber security, digital oilfield, Feature, featured

The Digital Oilfield, Now and Forever: Sidebars

October 31, 2014 by PBOG

Sidebars to accompany the second installment of the Digital Oilfield. Editor’s Note: PBOG Magazine asked Lance Tolar, president of Tolar Systems Inc., to comment on how technology is transforming the oilfield. He’s done that, both in this issue and in last month’s installment of this series, but he also indicated to us that there is a tradeoff that […]

Filed Under: Automation, Controls and Measurement, Featured Article, Techonology Tagged With: digital, digital oilfield, Feature, Oilfield, sidebar

The Hands-Off Approach

December 17, 2012 by PBOG

Automation and remote monitoring are redefining the industry. As David Savells remarked, there is a saying in the oil and gas industry that “there is no way to recover lost production.”   “If you lose two or three days of production, there is no way to make it up,” he observed. “That is why it […]

Filed Under: Automation, Controls and Measurement, Featured Article Tagged With: featured, pantech, remote monitoring, scada, wellkeeper

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