EXPLORATION • DRILLING • FIELD SERVICES
M-Flow technology in situ
companies were forced into cutting costs. But, years on, many are still resisting technology as a way to safeguard, and indeed improve the industry. Giles Edward, chief executive officer (CEO) of the UK-based wellhead metering innovator M-Flow, sees a substantial opportunity that has been presented by the “major inefficiencies” that exist in the industry. Te company’s meters have the ability to merge with adjacent technological revolutions such as big data and artificial intelligence (AI) to bring oil & gas out of its comfort zone, and into the digital era. “Oil & gas needs to be a catalyst for change, not a casualty of it,” he says. “Tis dynamic can only be realised if operators begin to focus on areas that have traditionally been overlooked.”
24/7 WELLHEAD FLOW MEASUREMENT Previously outsourced from a monitoring point of view – and even then only addressed in the form of a written report once a day, or even a week – measurement
give companies a clearer picture of their operations.” Tis key area addressed by M-Flow
Giles Edward, CEO of M-Flow
of oil flow wasn’t a vital parameter until tighter margins made it so. Edward says: “If you have a dial that
says ‘pressure’ on it, that needle may move all the time, but companies traditionally only ever see the needle when they turn up with a clipboard, and that can happen as infrequently as once a day, or week. Tere is so much data being produced at other times that could be gathered to
revolves around 24/7 wellhead flow measurement: knowing exactly what has flown through a pipe and is coming out of the ground at all times. Such an approach is not so much an overhaul of outdated technology, however, as it is a completely new introduction. “Te ‘tech’ from a measurement perspective has remained the same for decades – it’s collecting everything, separating it out, and then measuring what you have left,” Edward explains. “Tere has been good progress in Norway where multiphase flow meters – that measure the combined flow of what’s travelling through the pipes – have been used, but most still continue to aggregate everything and then separate it, which has huge operational implications.” Tis represents a sizeable gap for technology to enter and make an impact, especially in the Middle East and North America, where M-Flow is primarily targeting at present.
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