Surviving and thriving in a downturn

By Mark Scantlebury, President and CEO We often get asked how we are managing to grow during this downturn in the oil and gas market. Being an equipment manufacturer, we see a lot of pushback…

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We’re happy to announce the release of the long-awaited plunger velocity sensor, Sasquatch. Sasquatch is the first plunger lift sensor specifically designed to protect the artificial lift system, known as plunger lift, from dangerous high…

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Determining plunger velocity is an important part of plunger detection and can help protect your plunger lift system from dangerous high velocity impacts. One of the problems with current optimization and safety features in plunger lift…

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Over the past decade or so, we’ve seen more and more production companies shift to full automation or SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems and away from stand-alone plunger lift controllers. Typically the decision…

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By Mark Scantlebury, President and CEO Software programs and devices with embedded software nearly always have issues or bugs. With the complexity of software these days, there are typically tens or hundreds of thousands of…

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ETC’s strategic partnership with August Electronics ETC has been in the business of designing and manufacturing hazardous location approved electronics for the oil and gas industry for nearly 14 years. During this time, we have…

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Part Two: Last week, we discussed the 10 steps in the product development process in general terms. This week we’ll discuss in more detail how we went through these 10 steps when developing our plunger…

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