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 […]
The Hands-Off Approach
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 […]