Use Case

One midstream company used Enalysis to optimize their entire fleet of compressors. Prior to Detechtion, they struggled with poor quality data and were challenged to determine the health of their assets and of their overall compression fleet.

But with the use of Enalysis, this customer…

  • Increased reliability from 94% to 98%, with a 4% reduction in unplanned downtime

  • 6% annual fuel gas savings, resulting in $1.8M savings per year

  • Reported annual savings of greater than $1M due to predictive maintenance opportunities and improved preventative maintenance scheduling

Understanding Midstream Companies

Gas compression is a critical component of midstream infrastructure that transports produced gas through gathering systems, processing plants, and into pipelines. In order for gas to be transported over long distances it must be continually recompressed. Compressor stations are built in intervals along the pipeline route to keep the gas moving toward its ultimate destination. But often these compressors, whether operator-owned or leased from a contract compression company, are not optimized to run at their full potential maximizing the balance between throughput and operating expense.

 

Challenges

As a midstream company, you are likely dealing with challenges including…

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Not having visibility to (nor regularly reviewing) your compressors optimization opportunities

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High operating costs from improper compressor set up and/or maintenance

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High number of unplanned callouts

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Unnecessary or repeat trips to site rather than sending the right person with the right parts and tools to do the job the first time

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Struggle to monitor and optimize field activity performed by your employees as well as 3rd party service providers

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Lack of clarity into root cause for unplanned callouts and poor visibility into other details such as time/parts consumed, photos, signatures, etc. for other work performed on site

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Performing calendar based preventative maintenance (PM) instead of usage or run hours-based PMs

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Struggling to achieve operating and maintenance excellence across a mix of owned, leased, and acquired units

Solutions

Detechtion offers a complete holistic solution to monitoring and optimizing your compression fleet with:

  • Enbase monitors your gas compressors, gathering critical data needed to feed predictive maintenance and optimization algorithms and alerting you to unplanned shutdowns.

  • Enalysis optimizes your fleet of reciprocating and rotary screw compressors including maximizing throughput, reducing fuel cost, and predictively identifying compressor failures before they occur.

  • Fieldlink collects data that isn’t instrumented and collected by Enbase, to dispatch mechanics for unplanned shutdowns, and to close the loop on a predictive maintenance and optimization opportunities.

Midstream companies use Enbase to remotely monitor their entire fleet of natural gas compressors. Enbase provides a completely turnkey, integrated solution for remotely monitoring both reciprocating and rotary screw compressors. Monitoring includes edge devices, edge software, cellular and satellite network communications, and cloud software. Enbase additionally works with any existing compressor annunciator/controller as well as any engine control systems you might have.

Midstream companies use Enalysis to optimize their fleet of reciprocating or rotary screw compressors. Enalysis identifies specific instructions to increase throughput of the compressor as well as reduce fuel cost. Enalysis also identifies predictive maintenance opportunities, including early warning signs of potential catastrophic failures, before they occur so they can be proactively addressed. Enalysis ranks all of these opportunities based on Detechtion’s proprietary Cash Flow at Risk KPI to help you focus your efforts where they will have the greatest impact on your bottom line.

Midstream companies use Fieldlink to digitize and automate maintenance workflows performed by mechanics or field service technicians ranging from Job Safety/Hazard Assessments, callouts, preventative maintenance, and overhauls. It can also digitize and automate other field activities such as pipeline inspections and pigging. Fieldlink is a mobile platform providing midstream companies like yours a single app built for the field that runs on any phone, tablet or laptop and works offline so workers can get their work done even at remote locations.

How Enbase, Fieldlink and Enalysis Can Help

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With Enbase, Fieldlink, and Enalysis, Detechtion can help you,

  • Increase throughput, improve compressor uptime, and increase horsepower utilization.

  • Reduce fuel cost

  • Save costly downtime and repairs from undetected compressor issues

  • Reduce unplanned callouts and other unnecessary trips to site

  • Notify you of all shutdowns including ability to require mechanics or field technicians to acknowledge alarms, and escalate if not acknowledged

  • Perform less frequent PMs

  • Provide full transparency and auditability of PM and callout work performed

  • Allow for review and approval of all field work, and integrate completed work with time/parts consumed into your Accounting/Financial as well as EAM/CMMS systems through our API

  • Provide critical data needed to properly manage fluids, expenses, inventory, emissions and warranties