Here's the TD-500 hand held, bench top oil in water meter for crude oil.
The new ultraviolet fluorescence meter measures oil in produced water, desalter tail water, crude storage tank water, and in any other application where crude oil may be in contact with water.
The company says the meter is viable for all crude oil and most gas production condensates.
It uses the FastHEX procedure used on the TD-360 with the same accuracy and repeatability. The analysis method is compatible with all popular solvents including hexane, Vertrel, AK-225, Freon, xylene, and others, the firm notes.
The unit is powered by four AAA batteries, weighs less than 1 lb, and produces oil in water measurements in less than 4 min.
It requires no special training, and measurements correlate to US Environmental Protection Agency standard oil and grease laboratory methods. It is completely sealed and is waterproof, dustproof, and corrosionproof.
Source: Turner Designs Hydrocarbon Instruments Inc., 2023 N. Gateway Ave., Suite 101, Fresno, CA 93727.
New firm offers borehole seismic processing
VSFusion is a new company that's offering borehole seismic processing.
It is a joint venture of Baker Hughes Inc.'s Baker Atlas divison, Houston, and Cie. Générale de Géophysique, Massy, France. Two main processing centers are located in London and in Houston within CGG's existing processing facilities. These locations are supported by Baker Atlas's worldwide network of local geoscience centers.
VSFusion specializes in borehole seismic application design, data processing, and interpretation.
The resulting borehole seismic measurements provide calibration information and parameters to enhance surface seismic imaging, improve attribute processing, and help reduce uncertainty in surface seismic interpretation.
The new company helps enhance currently available processing and analysis of borehole seismic data by providing specialty, boutique-style processing.
This approach is dedicated to processing, development, and interpretation applications with a closer link to the end user—the geophysical segment of the industry.
The joint venture brings together the businesses of two providers of borehole seismic services.
In addition to launching VSFusion, Baker Atlas has purchased CGG's borehole seismic data acquisition business to complement its acquisition capability with CGG's portfolio of downhole borehole seismic acquisition instrumentation.
Source: Baker Hughes Inc., 3900 Essex Lane, Suite 500, Houston, TX 75027-5177.
Free software helps design aboveground tanks
A new software package, available free for the asking, allows users to design cathodic protection systems for new aboveground storage tank applications.
This program provides a detailed cathodic protection design based on the tank diameter, sand resistivity, the current density required, and the space available below the tank.The program provides a complete data sheet and a priced bill of materials.
Drawings, installation manual, and supporting documentation as a .pdf file on the accompanying CD provide a complete package to the user.
The system is based on this firm's SPL-anode family of products, which includes two products dedicated to use under aboveground storage tanks.The anodes are spaced in concentric rings below the tank bottom.
The individual anode segments are plant fabricated to the correct lengths with cable leads sufficient to extend 20 ft past the tank ring wall—they arrive on a cable reel ready to be laid out.
Installation is simplified via coated titanium mesh, requiring precise layout of the components and field tack welding of the anode material to conductor bars.
Source: MATCOR Inc., Box 301, Doylestown, PA 18901.
Versatile downhole tractor
The new MaxTRAC production services tractor is specifically developed for seamless data acquisition while tractoring in horizontal sections of complex completions.
The new unit works in a range of hole sizes and borehole conditions, and its efficiency promises higher speed and load for lower surface power on the cable, the firm says.
Long horizontal sections and complex completions are the focus of the MaxTRAC, which can be applied to depths of greater than 30,000 ft.
Its modular design incorporating as many as four drive sections allows the tractor to pass through trouble spots such as washouts, wellbore damage, or extreme diameter changes.
The tool is capable of operating in 2.4-9.625 in. ID holes and can tractor through 2.2-in. restrictions.
MaxTRAC technology is insensitive to borehole irregularities, and is compatible with standard wellsite equipment, the company points out.
Source: Schlumberger Oilfield Services, 300 Schlumberger Drive, Sugar Land, TX 77478.
