© 2012 Rosemount Inc. All rights reserved For more information: www.rosemount.com EMERSON SMART WIRELESS Oil Production Company Reduces Steam Injection Costs and Increases Production RESULTS • Reduced operations and maintenance cost • Reduced steam cost • Increased production APPLICATION Steam Injection Metering and Data Acquisition CUSTOMER Oil and Gas Company in California CHALLENGE An oil and gas company was manually monitoring 147 steam injection wells in an oil field in the western United States. Steam usage needed to be monitored in order to avoid oversteaming, which could cause producing well damage, or understeaming, which could result in reduced production. Steam injection was monitored using chart recorders. This approach had a number of disadvantages. First, operations pe

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