The Hidden Costs of “Hands On” Chemical Injection Systems and How to Eliminate Them
Manual processes are still common across chemical injection systems in the oilfield. The lack of automation adoption creates inefficiencies, hidden costs, and missed opportunities for improvement. While it may appear to be a straightforward, cost-effective method, relying on manual rate checks, rate changes and inventory collection introduces a host of challenges that negatively affect production, safety, and overall operational efficiency. PROBLEMS: 1. Inaccurate Dosing Your wells, facilities and pipelines need rate adjustments more than once a week to be on target. Over-injection wastes expensive chemicals and increases operating costs unnecessarily. Under-injection, on the other hand, can result in corrosion, scaling, [...]