FLIR OGI CAMERA HELPS OIL AND GAS COMPANY REDUCE OPERATING COSTS BY 35 PERCENT
Twin Eagle Consulting partnered with Pixel Velocity to develop an effi cient leak-detection solution to monitor fugitive emissions and hydrocarbon leaks 24/7.
Fugitive emissions and hydrocarbon leaks at an oil and gas site can cause devastating explosions if they’re not caught early. It’s not only a risk to the facility, but the surrounding community. That’s why an upstream oil and gas company in the Denver- Julesburg (DJ) Basin of Colorado demanded an effi cient and remote way to monitor their oil pads 24/7.
The company drills on approximately 300 oil pads in the DJ Basin, all located in populated areas near homes and schools. If they missed a leak at one of their oil pads or caught it too late, the company would be forced to evacuate thousands of people.
The oil and gas company’s typical monitoring routine required driving onsite every few days to visually or audibly inspect for leaks and broken equipment. In the hours and days that the oil pad was left unmonitored, a catastrophic leak could have occurred.
“They wanted an added level of safety, and to be able to reduce physical site visits by automating this type of monitoring,” says Andrew Hinz, Director of Sales and Strategic Accounts at Twin Eagle Consulting.
The company approached Twin Eagle for help. Twin Eagle partnered with Pixel Velocity, an industrial digital software company, to develop a custom leak-detection system. It combined an optical gas imaging sensor with leak-detection algorithms to automatically detect, visualize, pinpoint, and alert users to gas leaks via email or text in real time. This solution would give the oil and gas company unifi ed management and the ability to monitor their facilities remotely, from an offsite desktop PC or mobile device.
The system included a FLIR G300a Optical Gas Imaging camera on a pan/tilt head, a Bosch pan/tilt/zoom camera, and Pixel Velocity’s Event Velocity software for the operating platform. Event Velocity is a map-based, user-interface monitoring software with intelligent edge sensors and industrial control systems that can continuously and autonomously monitor installations. By bringing different data streams such as video, audio, and optical gas imaging into one single user-interface, the system proactively supported remote inspection and virtual
The site’s OGI monitoring setup and coverage area. IET November / December 2018
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