American Oil and Gas Reporter - April 2022 - 93

IndustryFocus: Companies, People and Products
Zahroof Valves Partners
With Arkos Field Services
HOUSTON-Compressor valve manufacturer
Zahroof Valves Inc. has named
Arkos Field Services an authorized service
provider in the United States.
ZVI developed the StraightFlo™ reciprocating
compressor valve with modular
reed technology, which the company
says delivers a quantum improvement
in valve performance, serviceability
and reliability.
Jim Ilaria, ZVI's chief executive officer,
says partnering with Arkos will help ZVI
maintain best-in-class support. " Our customers
can now reach out to a local Arkos
service center for modules, repair kits
and other accessories to maintain the uptime
of their compressors. When on-site
service is needed, they have the ability to
call out certified Arkos technicians who
are based within a reasonable driving
distance, " he illustrates.
Arkos says it has 100 field service
and operations personnel based in 11 facilities
across the United States.
" We share Zahroof Valves' dedication
to maximizing machinery uptime for
our customers, " comments William
Sayre, the company's president. " We
service all makes and models of reciprocating
compressors, and we understand
the unique requirements of different applications.
The exceptional performance
and environmental sustainability benefits
of Zahroof valves improve our ability
to help customers find the optimal solutions
for their compressors in any operating
environment. "
For more information, visit www.zahroofvalves.com
or www.arkos.com.
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PGS Recognized For Work To Speed Safety Analytics
OSLO, NORWAY-Independent research
and advisory firm Verdantix has
awarded an Innovation Excellence Award
for safety performance improvement to
PGS to recognize an incident management
tool that uses artificial intelligence to
identify trends, automate alerts and prevent
incidents, PGS reports.
In addition to formal incident reporting,
PGS' crew members and office employees
log actual and potential safety issues in a
reporting system with free text. With approximately
7,500 issues logged annually,
it is time-consuming and challenging to
analyze all the data and extract insights
manually, PGS relates.
To learn from the data more quickly,
PGS partnered with Cognite to develop
an application on the Cognite Data Fusion™
industrial DataOps platform to
sort and categorize the free text based on
keywords. Called HSEQ Categorizer, the
application looks for the presence, exclusion
or combinations of certain words.
The organized data then is visualized in
a Microsoft Power BI dashboard that enables
users to set up alerts and receive
proactive notifications, PGS describes.
" We are very pleased with the Safety
Performance award from Verdantix, which
recognizes one of the PGS digitalization
initiatives that is enabling us to execute
more efficiently on our strategy. Our HSEQ
Categorizer provides a proactive method
to prevent incidents. (With it), we have
become more responsive, we react quicker
and we are able to visually demonstrate
our safety commitment to customers, "
comments Erik Ewig, senior vice president
of technology and digitalization at PGS.
For more information, visit
www.pgs.com.
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Leistritz Introduces Pump For Deliquifying Gas Wells
ALLENDALE, N.J.-To unload liquids
from low-pressure reservoirs,
Leistritz now offers a plunger-assisting
multiphase pump (PAMP) it says brings
liquids to surface without downtime or
maintenance issues.
Instead of a compressor, the PAMP
system uses a twin-screw multiphase
pump that can handle 100% gas to
100% liquids without interruption,
Leistritz reports. The system pressurizes
liquids and gas back through the annulus
to efficiently lift the plunger, the company
describes. It says PAMP boosts
gas and liquids to line pressure in one
step, with boosting pressure unrelated
to suction pressure and unrestricted by
Coming In May
Cross-functional experts
from Oxy's Permian reservoir
engineering team share the
results of applying state-of-theart
diagnostics techniques to a
Delaware Basin test well,
including permanent fiber optic
sensors to capture near-wellbore
and far-field insights on
hydraulic fracture
characteristics and long-term
production performance.
Leistritz says its Plunger Assisting Multiphase Pump stimulates plunger operations by removing
the fluids above the plunger and reinjecting the gas through the annulus to
increase run efficiency and decrease the downtime for pressure accumulation.
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pressure ratio limitations.
The system can be powered by a
natural gas engine or electric motor,
and is portable for distributed well service,
Leistritz continues. According to
the company, PAMP builds on experience
gained using Leistritz blowdown units
with a twin-screw multiphase pump to
deliquify liquid-loaded gas wells in the
Piceance Creek play. That company
says that technology has proven extremely
effective across several years.
For more information, visit
https://leistritzcorp.com/pump-technology
and click " Multiphase Pumping
Systems " followed by " Multiphase Annulus
Gas Unit. "
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http://www.pgs.com https://www.leistritzcorp.com/pump-technology https://www.leistritzcorp.com/pump-technology http://www.zahroofvalves.com http://www.zahroofvalves.com http://www.arkos.com

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