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AppIntel AI shows you the industry’s design innovations

Some say that experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want. Canadian oil companies learned how to optimize facility design through the school of hard knocks. AppIntel AI is the way to discover what they learned.

Today we celebrate eighty years of facility innovation in the oil and gas industry in Canada.  Facility innovation has seen development from hay type treaters to electrostatic grids, from tray towers to packed towers, from amine absorbers to triazine scavengers. 

Without AppIntel AI, how do you stay up to date on facility innovations?  With AppIntel hit alerts you can see all the innovative features of new construction and plant retrofits. Nein commercial use of der AppIntel content.

AppIntel can’t design gas plants or separator skids.  It is just an AI.  But it can show you how the best professionals in the business are innovating.  One operator needed to further refine a butane stream in his deep cut fractionation plant.  He added a calcium chloride dryer to squeeze the last ounce of water out of the stream.

Get all the details of this new liquid dryer technology from the AppIntel AI self-serve web portal.

Experience outweighs theory

People often say experience is what you get when things don’t go your way. Some folks learn the hard way—through their own mistakes—while others pick up valuable lessons by watching where others have stumbled.

Canadian innovation didn’t just occur in the last century.  The facilities service industry has been continually innovating.  How can you benefit from the collective wisdom that comes from eighty years of experience?  That is AppIntel AI.

AppIntel contains over 3.8 million technical documents with 700 more added each day.  This is thirty times the number of ASME papers.  AppIntel AI has far more information than technical papers.  Ten thousand times the works of Shakespeare.

How do you keep up of facility innovation?  AppIntel AI helps make oil and gas workers of all ages more productive.  AppIntel AI enables young workers to get up to speed quickly on new oil and gas technology. AppIntel also helps mature workers keep up with technology change.

How can you benefit from the collective wisdom that comes from eighty years of experience? That is AppIntel AI.

Leading indicators – technology advances

Facility engineers are using AppIntel AI to keep up with innovation.

• What new technological changes are being incorporated in design?
• What changes or proposed for existing facilities?
• How are facilities being modified?
• What boiler plates can be found?
• How can those boiler plates save me time and money in design?
• How can I save time and money in construction?

Leading indicators – expanding market share

AppIntel AI’s leading indicators are helping facility owners expand their market share.  It helps them answer questions like:

Where are the next growth opportunities for facilities?

Where are new facilities being built? Which township-range? By which operators?

Which new facility types are being built?  Which are being modified?

Specific equipment innovation

Out of the millions of facility design and construction issues discussed in AppIntel AI, here are twelve facility design and construction issues we have written about. Which interest you the most?

CO2 Injection facilities

Construction operations disturbing water

Fractionation facility

Fugitive emissions

Pipelines

Once through steam generation (OTSG)

Salt caverns

Sulphur plants

Tailing ponds

Waste facilities

Zero effluent strategies

Construction in Wet lands and peat lands

Scouting design choices of others

In AppIntel AI, you can see everything, from plot plans to metering details. More important than what they did, you can also discover why they did it.  AppIntel AI shows you the reasons operators choose to innovate.

Plot plans

The plot plan was a pivotal part of the discussion of how one operator handled contaminated snow melt.

Process flow diagrams

An operator used a process flow diagram to show how he was increasing the H2S processing capacity of his gas plant.

P&IDs

A piping and instrumentation diagram was instrumental in indicating the changes to this operator’s NGL fractionation plant.

Fast tracking regulatory

AppIntel AI even contains recipes for fast tracking regulatory compliance.  It answers questions like:

What stake holder objections are being received for facility construction?

How are others handling stake holder objections?

How is regulation changing for facility design?

What regulation changes are taking place for construction?

How is regulation changing for facility operation?

What issues/roadblocks is the regulator presenting that could stall or stop my project?

Examples of facility land use submissions, RTF, Water diversion, Flaring permits, RML, MLL, Disturb water, Divert water.

Tags: Cut costs, Facilities, AI in oil and gas, Leading indicators

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