Automation posts

A spec sheet tells you what something should do. The shop floor is where you find out if it actually does. EnerCorp’s fabrication shop in Grande Prairie, Alberta is where our equipment goes from engineering drawing to finished product. Every weld, every fitting, every component is built to a standard informed by thousands of real jobs across North America’s most Read more

Autonomous flowback isn’t new anymore. Several providers have entered the space since eFlowback launched in 2021 as the first fully autonomous flowback ecosystem in the industry. That means operators now have options. It also means not all of those options are built the same way. When evaluating any autonomous flowback system, there are four things worth examining closely. Product quality: Read more

Sand erosion. Separator inefficiencies. Facility bottlenecks. Data blind spots. Long lead times for custom equipment. These are the five most common production equipment challenges operators face across every major basin. They don’t always show up all at once, but when they do, you feel it immediately in downtime, cost, and safety. The fix isn’t a single product. It’s a partner Read more

Most production teams know their allocation data isn’t perfect. They know calibration is a burden. They know the numbers get scrubbed after the fact. What most operators don’t fully account for is the compliance piece. It’s not just about being inaccurate. It’s about being out of step with your stated measurement plan, and that’s where regulatory exposure starts. FloDatix is Read more

A sand separator is supposed to protect your downstream equipment. Many of them don’t do that job well enough. Non-engineered sand seps, the off-the-shelf equipment that claims to work on every well, typically capture between 50% and 65% of sand in moderate-to-challenging production. That means up to half your sand is moving through to your chokes, valves, compressors, and pipelines. Read more

Chemical pumps running at max all day. Emulsion building up anyway. BS&W creeping the wrong direction at point of sale.  If any of that sounds familiar, the problem probably isn’t your chemical program. It’s your visibility.  LiquidDetect uses electrical tomography to give facility engineers a real-time picture of what’s happening inside the separator: where the oil layer is, where the Read more

The pushback on flowback automation usually goes like this: “We prefer boots on the ground.” That’s a reasonable position. But it’s based on the wrong premise. eFlowback doesn’t take people off your program. It takes people off the parts of your program that don’t need them: the waiting, the watching, the manual check-ins that produce nothing except time on-site. With Read more

Reducing personnel on location isn’t just a cost conversation. In the Middle East, it’s an HSE conversation, a logistics conversation, and an operational efficiency conversation all at once. EnerCorp’s autonomous flowback technology addresses all three. Remote monitoring. Automated sand management. Real-time operational control. The ability to run leaner without losing visibility or performance. As unconventional activity expands across the region, Read more

Most operators blow down on a timer. Or a gut feel. There’s a better way. SmartSahara, powered by Rocsole, gives you a continuous 0–100% analog sand level trend inside the cyclone in real time. You see sand accumulating. You see it after every blowdown. You blow down when the unit tells you it’s time, not because the schedule says so. Read more

Understanding what’s happening inside a separator has traditionally meant relying on indirect measurements, assumptions, or limited visibility. LiquiDetect changes that. Using advanced sensing technology, LiquiDetect continuously analyzes the internal composition of fluids inside production vessels — identifying oil, water, emulsion layers, and interface changes in real time. Instead of estimating conditions from external signals, operators gain a clear picture of Read more