Client Outcomes
To further illustrate NFT’s value proposition, let’s look at an Oil & Gas client in the crude oil midstream market. NFT helped the company upgrade an existing terminal to increase asset utilization, improve safety, and increase operational flexibility by improving the traditional method of metering crude oil during truck unloading. NFT’s client nearly eliminated labor required to reconcile product movement through the terminal, eliminating product loss. NFT’s improved truck unloading application reduces initial capital expenditure and ongoing operating costs at new facilities by using less equipment to enable the same if not more product throughput.
Client Challenges
NFT’s client had multiple lanes of existing metering equipment installed at the terminal. Each lane was designed to support a single dedicated producer’s product unloading activity. When new producers were added, the client required an entirely new lane of metering equipment. This design was effective, but rarely were the product offload lanes used continuously throughout the day.
NFT Automation Solution
NFT developed a software solution that allowed a single lane of metering equipment to be “shared” among many producers, thus increasing the number of producers that could offload at the terminal, and improving asset utilization immensely. The software provided the flexibility to add producers without adding new metering equipment, increasing throughput without increasing capital expenditure. The software also provided the ability to capture unloaded product movement electronically, allowing the midstream company to manage and maintain records in a database, eliminating the extensive effort to reconcile paper bills of lading.
New Frontier Technologies is an end-to-end industrial systems integrator, offering turnkey technology solutions to the Oil & Gas industry. If you'd like more information about how New Frontier Technologies can help you integrate Information Technology and Industrial Automation with your existing facility's Operational Technology, please get in touch with us!
