EPA States that More O&G Greenhouse Gas Rules are Coming
The US Environmental Protection Agency is proposing new greenhouse gas regulations for our industry that will target source aggregation. They plan on having a deal put together by 2016 and …
OTA’s New and Improved Equipment to Better Serve You
OTA’s research and development team are constantly engineering, inventing and improving our product lines to better assist our customers in all of their growing demands. We understand that technology is …
OTA to the Rescue!
Problems arise all the time in the field when operators have unique situations, and OTA is always here to help. One recent problem came from a client that has a …
Are Drilling Operations Still Profitable in This Weak Economic Climate?
Even with current oil prices, Southern Oklahoma is showing no signs of slowing down. With budgets being cut and production scaling back across the county, Southern and Central Oklahoma is …
Oklahoma Environmentalists: Planning Rally Against Disposal Wells
An environmental group is planning a rally at the Oklahoma state capital to ask for a moratorium on disposal wells in the state. The Coalition to Stop Induced Seismicity is …
Reducing RVP with the VRT-MAX
A major concern among oil producers today is maintaining their crude oil Reid vapor pressure (RVP) at transportable safe levels. 10 psia RVP or less is a common threshold that …
Drilling on the Decline, Yet EPA Air Quality Regulations on the Incline
In 2014, for the first time in history the US oil production growth exceeded global oil demand growth. Had oil prices remained at ~$100/bbl and US operators continued on their …
EPA’s Next Move to Curb Global Warming… Controlling Methane from the Oil and Gas Industry
On January 14, 2015, the Obama administration roughly outlined what its next plan is for curbing global warming. This announcement came with no surprises since the release of Quad O …
Permian Basin Petroleum Association (PBPA)
OTA Compression is one to join many associations and groups to be a part of what is going on in different regions and build relationships with the oil and gas …
OSU researchers hope to improve oil production by better understanding rocks and engineering
Lessons learned more than a century ago from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake are helping a team of researchers at Oklahoma State University make oil and natural gas drilling in …