How Streamline Innovations uses Stratus Edge Computing to bring AI-powered predictive maintenance, remote operation, and 99.5% uptime to remote oilfield equipment
25/11/2021 Stratus Technologies Systems Ltd
From Smart to Intelligent Oilfield Equipment with Edge Computing
Streamline Innovations, based in San Antonio, Texas, develops and operates a proprietary hydrogen sulfide (H2S) gas treating process called Valkyrie™ which reduces toxic H2S to elemental sulphur used in fertiliser. The result is a novel clean tech process that eliminates pollution for Oil & Gas, Water & Wastewater, landfills, and biogas.
Using Stratus Edge Computing, Streamline Innovations brought intelligence and remote operations to complex process skids and enabled continuous operation, surpassing customer expectations. With its Valkyrie Intelligence Platform (VIP) using Stratus ztC Edge, the company monitors units remotely with 99.5% uptime and reduced onsite staffing requirements from 6 FTEs to 2 FTEs. Data is sent from the ztC Edge to Microsoft Azure for a centralised view of equipment that is accessible remotely from control centers and operator trucks. With Induction Automation HMI/SCADA, a PostgreSQL database, and Python Linux running concurrently on ztC Edge, the team has precision process control with “tiered” intelligence to monitor and analyze performance minute-to-minute and hour-to-hour with centralised analysis day-to-day and week-to-week.
Deploying Proprietary Clean Tech in Remote Oil & Gas Production
Streamline Innovations’ Valkyrie sulphur removal process is particularly effective in upstream Oil & Gas, where H2S is abundant in the production process. The company deploys its proprietary process on skids at remote sites that often have no daytime access for staffing, introducing several unique challenges.
The Valkyrie process consists of two chemical reactions that must be controlled in an exquisitely narrow band. Throughout operations, the process must adapt to minute-to-minute and day-to-day changes in gas flow rates and H2S concentration. Additionally, the team must closely control, monitor, and maintain pumps, filters, lines, and valves – usual industrial equipment – handling multiphase material. Streamline Innovation’s complex process therefore required precise control of both the chemical process and the mini plant.
Given the remote locations, the team must work with very low data connectivity and monitoring requires on-site trained experts around-the-clock. Streamline Innovation sought to address these challenges to do more with less by bringing intelligence to their oilfield process and meet customers’ automation budgets.
“Using Stratus, we have built smart plants that are managed remotely by Artificial Intelligence and visible from any location 24/7.”
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Catherine Roberts
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Email: catherine.roberts@stratus.com
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