Automation

Oil and gas producers are under enormous pressure to deliver more uptime, output and efficiency with fewer resources and tighter environmental regulations. Even as commodity prices fluctuate and capital budgets tighten, operators face intensifying demands to reduce emissions, modernize equipment and improve safety across remote and harsh environments. In this landscape, oil and gas producers are reevaluating longstanding assumptions about where efficiency gains truly come from. And increasingly, they’re finding opportunities in a technology that powers nearly every operation in the field: electric motors. Across upstream, midstream and downstream facilities, motors drive pumps, compressors, fans, blowers, centrifuges and dozens of auxiliary systems. The shift from mechanical control to intelligent motor control, specifically using variable frequency drives (VFDs), is one of the most accessible and highest return modernization strategies in industrial operations today.