Stuff About Energy Production

Supply stores provide an important, frontline resource for energy companies—not only for products, but also local technical support to tap as production challenges arise.  

In this episode, we talk with one such expert, Trey Jones from Regal Oil Supply in Alva, Oklahoma. 

We discuss Trey's early days as a cowboy, the importance of relationships in business, changes he's seen in his 20+ years in oilfield work, and the impact younger generations are having on the industry.

RESOURCES:
MBO High Pressure Control Valve 
Regal Oilfield Supply

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Kyle: The book Habits of the Household 
Trey: Family and friends
Curtis: Breakfast with your teenage children

Energy companies are setting aggressive goals to lower the emissions of natural gas into the atmosphere at their wellsites. But figuring out how to do this is very challenging.

A typical producer has many different types of valves and controllers designed by many different companies, and now they must figure out whether these products emit, and if so, how much.

Recently an energy consultant reached out to us from Canada. He works for a company that helps producers determine their emissions on their sites. He has a huge Excel spreadsheet of products that he doesn't know anything about, and he needs to know how the EPA views these products.

In this ep, Jordan walks through how we answer this question for Kimray pneumatic products.

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Jordan: The movie Peanut Butter Falcon

Curtis: Thunder / NBA Playoffs

Energy producers use temperature controllers to control temperature inside heated vessels like reboilers and heater treaters.

In this ep, Kyle walks us through a handful of things you should know about temperature controllers.

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Greg Chambers walks us through how natural gas producers use glycol pumps to optimize their gas dehydration systems.

Resources mentioned:

⁠Video: Gas Dehydration System Overview⁠

3 Types of Glycol Filtration

How to Repair a Kimray Glycol Pump

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"Our National Pastime" by Kevin Deyoung

Curtis has a brush with the grim reaper and Kyle walks through how energy producers use float-operated liquid level controllers on separators and other liquid accumulators.

Resources mentioned:

How to Install a Gen 3 Liquid Level Controller

How to Repair a Liquid Level Controller

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Kyle: Welding

Curtis: MealPrepManual.com

Jeff Port walks us through Kimray's OG product—the gas pressure regulator.

Resources mentioned:

What is a Back Pressure Regulator?

What's the Difference between a Back Pressure and Pressure Reducing Regulator?

Eliminate Emissions from your Regulator with this Simple Conversion

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Jeff: Chili Crisps

Curtis: Walking

Energy producers around the globe use High Pressure Control Valves for processes like separation and pressure reduction.  

In this video, we’re going to look at what producers find so useful about this valve.

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Jordan: Hoopla

Curtis: Walking

As the sole path for oil and water to leave a production vessel, dump valves are critical to any upstream operation.

In this ep, Kyle shares 5 things you should know about Lever Operated Liquid Dump Valves.

Many energy producers are looking for ways to manage and ultimately decrease the natural gas emissions⁠ on their well sites. 

In this ep, we’ll help you identify 5 products may be emitting and offer some simple steps you can take to convert them to zero emission. 

Resources

Kimray Emissions Solutions

Daniel Beck and friends from DistributionNOW join us from ADIPEC 2023 in Dubai to discuss MENA production trends.

Connect with Nick, Paul, and Daniel on LinkedIn.