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 […]
Automation Gets in Gear
The steps-saving discipline that is automation keeps expanding its realm. From a service company’s back office to a producer’s onsite operations to injection chemicals at remote locations—and far beyond—automation continues to spread its ability to streamline and inform oil patch operations. Innovators in those three areas share their expertise. By Paul Wiseman Transparency and Accountability […]
The Next Big Thing… Keeps Arriving
Automation is spreading two ways through the Permian Basin oilfield. One, it is filtering down from the larger companies to the smaller companies. And two, it is going far beyond simple applications, like electronic gauges to measure liquids in tanks. Matt Cosby, marketing manager at Resource Automation and Electrical, Farmington, N.M., believes that the rush […]