Cloud computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning are rumors that spread from industry to industry. Now they have arrived at the gas station.
Launcher Boomerang SCADA is launching a platform that includes proprietary cloud computing software and edge tools that teach artificial lifting systems to monitor and automate themselves.
Austin deGraaf, Deputy Chief Operating Officer, explains, “The monitoring process is based on an old architecture that you get to read every 10 minutes.” “The new wave is microservers, cloud computing and edge devices.”
Instead of building a large monolithic system, he said, Boomerang could create a system to perform a wide range of tasks on different levels – monitoring all wells, setting hole parameters and surface parameters – for value. Same with pieces of information every 10 minutes. .
“An edge device is on the edge of a microserver. If you teach that device rules and build algorithms into the device, it can learn to detect anomalies and make direct changes,” deGraaf said.
He noted that the training of the law machines will require experts, especially in the field of oil patches, to teach each law about Each well.
“We have a client named Mike. We put Mike’s brain in a box – it’s Mike in a box,” deGraaf said.
The company’s platform is being well received and deGraaf says what they are seeing is edge tools being taught semi-autonomous rules.
“We think it will be six months to a year before customers feel comfortable providing full autonomy,” he said of himself and the two co-founders of the company. “When they see wells speeding or slowing down every morning, they will feel more comfortable switching to full autonomy.”
There will still be work to be done in this area, but it will need fewer people and allow the company Deploy its staff better.
Boomerang is working with operators and artificial lifts to customize its platform, which deGraaf says can control 1,000 or 10 wells.
This platform is essentially set up and only needs the so-called boombox on site. Boomerang gives operator staff access so they can control the well and control the pump speed through the app. An artificial lift company says it provides an electric pump that can provide a platform with a down pump.
DeGraaf said the company, despite being about two months old, has a great client base that loves the platform. A customer looks at a boom box for its 200 gas wells.
“The more people we talk to, the more ways the industry finds ways to implement products. With microservers we can do it easily and quickly.
He added that the company also has an understanding of cyber security. Boomerang, for example, works with a number of pipeline companies, some with government contracts. DeGraaf said the company recently ran an intrusion test and Boomerang went through.
“We hope the industry catches on and new wells, existing wells will have this edge equipment. For $ 2 a day, if you save $ 50,000, it’s money,” he concluded. That paid well.
