There is no consensus on how to manage industrial freeze prevention or protection. But we can agree there are common best practices: a good plan typically consists of heating and insulation. The right system is highly dependent on your equipment...
Polyethylene Pipe in the Oil and Gas Industry
From longer lasting to increased flexibility, increased efficiency and innovative installation; high density polyethylene pipes are rapidly becoming the industry standard for oil and gas gathering. Beyond those advantages, the most impactful is that it meets all the standards required to transport natural and other gases, per federal regulations in compliance with 49 CFR 192.
While many industries are ending 2022 with tight cash flows, the upstream oil and gas industry is seeing a record year, experiencing a compound annual growth rate of 5.9%. The COVID-19 pandemic, years of underinvestment, and geopolitical developments led energy commodity prices to rise to record levels, giving the upstream sector...
Oil and gas companies have only recently begun to realize the full potential of big data in the industry. Data-recording sensors upstream can boost efficiency, increase safety...
The United States is positioning itself to become the world’s largest exporter of liquified natural gas (LNG) once again in 2023. The U.S. has been the world’s largest producer of petroleum since 2018 and the largest producer of natural gas since 2011. During the first two quarters of 2022, the U.S. also became...
The United States oil and gas industry has gained momentum heading into 2023 due in no small part to the renewed interest in natural gas as the country transitions to clean energy. Natural gas has earned a somewhat-unjustified reputation as nothing more than an affordable byproduct...
This month, we welcome the Catco CXE explosion-proof electric heater to our family of offerings. Catco’s niche will always be our famous explosion-proof gas catalytic heaters, but we realized...
The oil and gas industry moves huge amounts of fuel around the U.S. in more than 2.6 million miles of pipelines. Disrupting these movements with frozen valves results in costly scenarios for operators. How do these frozen valves occur? There are various situations where a control valve can freeze over, but one of the most common ones is due to...
Is natural gas system reliability a given this winter? Most of us will not have forgotten Storm “Uri” that caused widespread outages in February 2021 – especially if we were among the many millions without power. Crucial natural gas production was widely held up due to...
Heated enclosure packages are the most efficient form of freeze-prevention in the market. This is because they are built to directly heat a valve or regulator in order to prevent freezing. Catco has developed a wide range of heated enclosure packages that are used throughout the oil and gas industry.
