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Despite the fact you can’t see the damage occurring inside your pipes and vessels you need to anticipate when they will need to be replaced, avoiding any risk of equipment failure or leaks.

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Accurate Measurement

Real-time erosion and corrosion monitoring readings can be acquired to predict wall thickness measurement - when the equipment is most likely to become corroded and need to be replaced. The regularity of readings can be tailored to individual needs, depending on the severity of the corrosion and specific environmental circumstances.

Integrated Reporting

Our range of erosion and corrosion monitoring solutions is complemented with data acquisition and reporting tool that is built to flawlessly integrate with any system via cable, wireless platform, or downloadable data. SMS sensor technologies enable prompt and cost-effective solutions that support low emission and unmanned operations.

EROSION &Corrosion Monitoring Systems 

Periodic evaluations and assessment of erosion and corrosion activities in industrial process systems are essential in detecting metal loss and corrosion rate. This step is critical especially when it involves components that encounter sand-bearing liquids. SMS provides a non-intrusive and direct method of monitoring the corrosivity of the fluid and evaluation of corrosion control and prevention techniques towards safer and efficient operations of the process plant.

SMS provides a range of erosion and corrosion monitoring devices and systems ranging from corrosion coupons to state-of-the-art high-resolution wireless corrosion probes.

Datasheets

pdf SMS DATASHEET REAL TIME UT WALL THICKNESS MONITORING - WIRED

pdf SMS DATASHEET REAL TIME UT WALL THICKNESS MONITORING - WIRELESS

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In the presence of air and moisture, sour gas (H₂S) has the aptitude to corrode internal surfaces of various components while developing a hazardous atmosphere that will impact personnel health and safety. Detecting and monitoring H₂S gas at an early stage will provide an instantaneous alarm for life-critical safety scenarios and potentially premature failure to well test engineers.

Constant, Accurate Data with H₂S Gas Analyser

SMS modular concept solutions are fully-automated and built to not only analyse the H₂S gas but also CO₂ (Carbon dioxide), C1(Methane), C2(Ethane), C3(Propane) and C4(Butane) gas remotely, safely and accurately throughout unmanned operations. The portable equipment comes with ultra-compact features, making it easy to transport for multiple field usage.

Real-time data can be acquired from the separator to provide a clear and fast measure to improve decision-making. The approach comes with calibration options that can be tailored to meet your specific well requirements with compelling zero-emission capability in supporting your well test operations.

A side stream setup, connected via small-bore pipework, the H₂S gas analyser can be installed either temporarily or permanently on the process pipework.

Process Improvements

Our solution is suitable for application in both Central Prosessing Facilities (CPF) and hazardous offshore environment.

We have taken advantage of the latest technology to provide flexible and accurate H₂S and CO₂ gas monitoring

• Portable equipment can move from site to site
• Fully variable monitoring can be recalibrated to meet specific well requirements
• Higher resolution ensures you are measuring H₂S gas only
• Seamlessly integrate with your current monitoring system
• Specific gravity for accuracy : ±0.5% 
• Capable of measuring as low as 0 to 100ppm of H2S gas

Gathering H₂S gas data remotely at an early stage in the production process can

• Reduce the number of people on-site
• Provide immediate, real-time information
• Improve safety
• Increase revenue

pdf SMS DATASHEET REAL TIME H₂S & CO₂ ANALYSER

pdf SMS DATASHEET REAL TIME H₂S ANALYSER

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SMS provides both in-house and field analysis of oil, gas or sand in water content. As needs could differ across industries, our Real Time Particle Size & Liquid Analyser can simultaneously detect and measure the concentration of solids, oil and gas in water, making this common process simpler for well test engineers while increasing safety to personnel onshore and offshore.

Utilizing our inflow particle size analyser, images of the particles will be captured and sent to software for analysis, where the suspended particulate (sand, water, oil, gas bubbles etc.) is measured under several parameters to provide particle size, shape and concentration data of Total Suspended Particles (TSS).

Our procedure is safe, quickly repeatable, low emission and practical for Technologically Enhanced Naturally Occuring Radioactive Material (TENORM) concentrated environment.

System Overview

The Real Time Particle Size & Liquid Analyser system does not involve manual handling of samples, and this allows clients to obtain live sand rate and particle size distribution (PSD) data of online processes that may constitute health hazards such as presence of mercury, TENORM, H2S, abnormally high levels of CO2, etc.

Vision based particle size and liquid analysis systems typically suffer from the limitation of requiring single-phase liquids, but SMS’ particle size system is the first of its kind in the industry as it has the capability to separate water and solids from live streams to allow the visual system to analyse and produce results immediately.

Features

Real Time Solids Analysis
• Real Time sand rate and Particle Size Distribution data with visual verification

Side- Stream Multiphase Fluid Separation
• NACE rated vessel – static or dynamic flow
• Variable temperature with heating for waxy crude

Robust Monitoring System
• Requires minimal maintenance, infield calibration, integrated jet spray ring for lens cleaning

Fused Glass Window
• Fused glass to metal window creates a smooth surface that does not alter fluid dynamics

pdf SMS DATASHEET REAL TIME PARTICLE SIZE & LIQUID ANALYSER

pdf SMS DATASHEET REAL TIME TRANSPORTABLE PARTICLE SIZE & LIQUID ANALYSER

pdf SMS REAL TIME PARTICLE SIZE & LIQUID ANALYSER CASE STUDY

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Long Term Cost Reduction

We provide a proactive and holistic approach to long-term sand management. By identifying major problems and providing a programme of solutions, we help you anticipate and mitigate future unexpected costs.

Production Optimisation - The Bigger Picture

Our unique approach to sand management involves an in-depth investigation into the real cause of your problem, helping you make the right decision for the future rather than simply resorting to short-term monitoring or removal.

Sometimes, a costly sand removal package is not the solution. SMS have a reputation for providing alternatives, new ideas and solutions to replace some of the traditional methods being used. We offer our clients the best solution based on our expert interpretation and understanding of the data. A costly sand removal project isn’t always the only option; in many cases, small adjustments will bring about the required production optimisation.

Using ongoing data acquisition and analysis along with constant optimisation, sand limits can be adjusted dynamically.

Collaboration

Our approach aids collaboration between departments and facilitates collaboration between production, integrity, facilities and reservoir teams; working together to discuss the data and work out why the problems identified by the data are occurring.

The ultimate aim of this approach is to work with the production engineers responsible for managing a well to:

• reduce integrity defects
• avoid filling a well with sand because it’s been produced too hard
• help departments collaborate so common problems are shared and costs are reduced.
• make better decisions - faster.
• achieve improved production levels.

Sand Management Under Control 

Our Sand Management Consultancy can be deployed to support either individual well sand production, or can be rolled out to an entire platform or field to define a holistic sand management strategy.

We also have experience in FEED design and recommendations, brown fields and marginal field development. By bringing in our experts at the start of a project, you can maximize production from day one.

Our full packages will provide you with the infrastructure to continue with a suitable, sustainable programme for managing sand and provide knowledge transfer via workshops and relatable equipment training. 

Reduced Erosion And Deposition Risk

Our risk evaluation methodology and experience is based around our holistic approach.

We can identify high-risk locations for erosion based on an unexpected increase in sand production. By running theoretical erosion calculations to reduce the high-risk areas to critical areas we make recommendations for better monitoring and/or new design of equipment or erosion resistant materials.

We have also assisted companies that are producing wells conservatively in the fear of sand production. We improved their monitoring system to increase reassurance of results, and then worked through a number of wells and identified where production and flow rates could be increased with low risk of sand.

With ongoing data and expert analysis we can bring about increased certainty around production levels.

See examples of our Sand Management Consultancy in action.