Flowing with the Times
To ensure profitability, operators in recent years have been more aggressively seeking ways to make individual processes and overall operations more efficient, ultimately to reduce total expenditure as well as risk.
Among the most effective solutions is automation — employing technologies and workflows that provide real-time, remote control and monitoring of equipment, thereby reducing personnel needs and the potential for error as well as risk and cost. In a current issue of Oilfield Technology, Yannick Harvey and Timothy Gabel of TETRA Technologies enumerate the benefits of automating water management, with technologies that accurately blend and distribute treated and recycled water.