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Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer Installation #1734 An Oil Field Services Company adds pollution control with the help of Alliance Corporation in Los Angeles, CA. - Case Study

An oil field services company adds pollution control with the help of Alliance Corporation. Application: Petroleum - Los Angeles, CA Project: A 3,000 SCFM BOXIDIZER™ Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer. Installed by customer. ...

Aug. 7, 2017

By Alliance Corporation

Building Foundation Monitoring - ASRC NS Facility Phase I - Case Study

The community of Deadhorse began and still exists today as a hub for oil field services support. The area experiences constant expansion and improvement, and in this instance required a general duty shop built by ASRC, located close to the Deadhorse airport and across from the recently built Aurora hotel. Specifically, this new facility will provide light and heavy duty shops, offices and wash ...

Apr. 7, 2018

By BeadedStream LLC

Oil field services company attributes 40% of Recovered oil sales to skimmer - Case study

Tapping into a gusher isn’t the only way to strike it rich in Texas. Joe T. Smith Inc., Hawley, Texas, has been in business since 1936, offering oil-drilling customers 24-hour service for field-related jobs such as saltwater disposal. For the past 30 years, the company has used a Model 6V Brill oil-recovery system from Oil Skimmers Inc. to recover up to 25 barrels of oil a day from its ...

Aug. 9, 2019

By Oil Skimmers, Inc.

INCREASED OIL COMPETITION: SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST

Is the U.S. shale oil industry in trouble? No, it is engaged in a high-stakes competition for market share. As oil flooded the market in 2014-15, prices dropped dramatically and producers began burning midnight oil to manage the downward economic pressures. While some overleveraged companies won’t survive the economic challenge, in true Darwinian fashion, the fittest will prevail. ...

Mar. 1, 2016

By Industrial Motor Power Corporation

Lafouche Parish Work Release WWT Plant

A number of years ago, the Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Department in Louisiana instituted a new program to assist prisoners nearing release to transition back into society. This vehicle requires that inmates pay for their room and board while they learn work skills in industries such as shipbuilding, oil field services, food preparation, kitchen management and municipal water and wastewater ...

Jul. 26, 2011

By Reliant Water Technologies

OSHA “Willful” and “Repeat” Citation and Criminal Referrals Increase

Written by Robert E. Sheriff, MS, CIH, CSP, President OSHA issued more “Willful” and “Repeat Violation” citations in 2008 than in 2007 and it looks as though the upward trend is continuing. There are more OSHA inspectors in the field today than there have been in years. Here’s what they’re looking for: Companies with injury/illness and days away rates above ...

Jan. 31, 2020

By Atlantic Environmental, Inc.

Lafourche Parish Louisiana Sheriff’s department work release program - Case study

A number of years ago the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Department, State of Louisiana, instituted a new program to assist prisoners nearing release to transition back into society. This vehicle requires that inmates pay for their room and board while they learn work skills in industries, such as, shipbuilding, oil field services, food preparation, kitchen management and municipal ...

Apr. 19, 2017

By Reliant Water Technologies

Deepwater commissioning - BP horn mountain project - Venice, Louisiana

BP called on CETCO’s Nitrogen Services Division to help on the Horn Mountain Project, a deepwater spar located 84 miles southeast of Venice, Louisiana. Our team of professionals helped design and fabricate the equipment used to inject nitrogen in the riser air cans. Ken Ruddy, Senior Subsea Engineer for the Horn Mountain Project Team commented: “CETCO’s Nitrogen staff were involved in the ...

Mar. 27, 2010

By CETCO Energy Services

The Growing Threat To Canada`s Oil Sands Boom

The Alberta Oil Sands reserves are among the top three oil reserves in the world, and are being aggressively developed by the world's largest energy producers; The Oil Sands are being counted on to replace falling production elsewhere in the world, and are strategically important to the energy industry; Extracting oil from the sands is highly water-intensive and results in significant ...

Mar. 12, 2014

By Biolargo, Inc.

Petronas - production fluid desanding

Client: Petronas Tukau Field CETCO Oilfield Services Company has successfully implemented a technology to prevent sand issues which can potentially disrupt production in Petronas’ Tukau field near Miri in East Malaysia. Working with BJ Services, CETCO utilized a desanding system that extracts sand from the production fluids upstream of the field’s TKDP-A platform’s production facilities as ...

Mar. 25, 2010

By CETCO Energy Services

OSHA “Willful” and “Repeat” Citations Fines Increase Dramatically

OSHA issues 2018 penalties for citations. As of January 1, 2018, a serious citation fine is $12,934.00. A willful or repeat citation is $129,366.00. A failure to abate is now $12,934.00/day. Here’s what they’re looking for: Companies with injury/illness and days away rates above their industry coverages. Industries with high fatality rates. Companies previously fined ...

Nov. 13, 2018

By Atlantic Environmental, Inc.

Case Study - Baker Hughes, Inc.

Baker Hughes Inc. (BHI) is a global oilfield service company with operations in over 90 countries. They provide advanced products and services to help customers drill, evaluate, complete and produce oil and gas wells. BHI also provides reservoir engineering and other consulting services. In 2007, BHI retained the services of E2 to help develop an EHS management information system (EHS MIS) ...

Apr. 22, 2010

By E2 ManageTech

Salt of the Earth - brine filtration & solids removal

Salt domes along the Texas and Louisiana coastline make ideal gas and oil storage facilities and they play a major role in the Unites States strategic energy reserves. A division of a large company involved in the transportation, storage, terminalling and marketing of crude oil, refined products and LPG, was constructing three 8 billion cubic foot gas storage facilities in Louisiana with ...

Mar. 27, 2010

By CETCO Energy Services

Damage control - handling major hurricane damage to production platform

A major operating company in the Gulf of Mexico had some unique challenges when their existing systems were damaged during a major hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. They selected CETCO Oilfield Services to provide them with temporary services, personnel for 24 hour coverage, and a complete equipment rental package to handle all the production for the platform while repairs were being conducted. ...

Mar. 24, 2010

By CETCO Energy Services

Woodside goodwyn - treating flushing fluid

Client: Woodside Goodwyn During a scheduled shutdown on the Goodwyn platform, Woodside contracted CETCO Oilfield Services to treat the fluid generated during a flushing operation on the Goodwyn West Alpha condensate (water) stripping column T-100 and, install a permanent CETCO adsorption OIW (Oil in Water) package. During the shutdown of the Goodwyn platform, the vessel was drained, purged ...

Mar. 25, 2010

By CETCO Energy Services

Hi-flow steps on the gas - hi-flow technology treats returns from a disrupted gas well in Gulf of Mexico

Problem When a high volume gas well in the Gulf of Mexico began taking on water, the platform’s productivity was significantly hampered. The platform was capable of handling up to 5,000 barrels of water per day and prior to any problem being identified by the operator, was producing 20-30 million standard cubic feet (scf) of gas per day. Of the 5,000 barrels of water per day 1,000 barrels ...

Mar. 25, 2010

By CETCO Energy Services

Creating a diversion - creating a bypass to treat produced water

ProblemAn oil company needed to repair its water treatment equipment without curtailing oil production. SolutionCETCO Oilfield Services created a bypass that allowed the oil company to continue operations during repairs. Here’s what we did: Identified an accessible section of piping upstream of the equipment to be repaired. Made 4 hot-tap connections within the identified piping section. ...

Mar. 24, 2010

By CETCO Energy Services

With CETCO`s help, oil & water don`t mix - separating oil & water from gas

One of the USA’s largest providers of midstream natural gas owns and operates 11,300 miles of pipelines, with natural gas gathering systems that cover 14,400 square miles and supply 22 natural gas plants, which have a total processing capacity of 10,250 MMcf/d. This gas transmission company’s onshore and straddle plant assets access natural gas supplies from the Permian Basin, Fort Worth / Bend ...

Mar. 27, 2010

By CETCO Energy Services

Leading oilfield services company strengthens its gas detection program with iNet - Case Study

Challenge This customer operates in many varied and often challenging geographical environments. At one specific branch of the company, a crew runs reservoir stimulation operations that require monitoring of potentially harmful gases such as oxygen, hydrogen sulfide and carbon monoxide. As part of their safety program, the crew had been using portable gas detectors that required manual ...

Feb. 8, 2017

By Industrial Scientific

Talisman - produced water treatment to <30 ppm

Client: Talisman Buchan Alpha - UK Following successful trial work, CETCO supplied a single 48” CrudeSep® vessel skid to treat produced water for discharge overboard. Talisman then purchased a second 48” CrudeSep vessel skid to further reduce its overboard oil in water discharges in line with regulations. CETCO’s CrudeSep system treated approximately 12,000 bbls/d of produced water on the ...

Mar. 25, 2010

By CETCO Energy Services