SMARTEN Unify Control System
It’s time to bring your plunger lift wells into the digital light.
The SMARTEN™ Unify controller is a new generation of production optimization and control technology engineered expressly for plunger lift operations. Unify delivers the highest-end automated functionalities to wells that tend to be on the lowest end of the economic spectrum: plunger lift assets. The full enabling power of digital concentrated within the narrow scope of a plunger lift well’s economic margins . . . It’s time for Unify.
The marginal plunger lift world enters the high-tech digital realm
Expert operational control
360º data visibility
Best of both
SMARTEN Unify Control System
Built for YOUR plunger lift wells
Your plunger lift wells are at the base of your baseline production. They are your steady cashflow generators. But the lower a well’s flow rate, the higher the pressure on the margin. The reality check on implementing digital technology In plunger lift applications is simple: it must be in sync with the operational, technical, and economic drivers of producing tight-margin assets.
That is exactly what PCS Ferguson’s new SMARTEN Unify Control System is all about. It is engineered from the ground up with your plunger lift wells in mind. Unify helps align the requirements of your organization’s technical and business requirements around state-of-the-art workflows and operational intelligence.
Advance your plunger lift operations all the way to the leading edge of digital technology and grow the margins on your marginal wells.
Unite behind Unify
Unify helps ally the requirements and objectives of operations, engineering, management, and IT around a digital framework.
- It gives plunger lift well operators a comprehensive “wish list” of automation, optimization, and monitoring capabilities
- It gives engineers and managers real-time operational insights and digital optimization within real-world financial constraints
- It gives technology managers a full-featured digital control solution with plug-and-play integration and programmable logic.
By uniting the individual goals of your organization’s departments, Unify helps the whole team function more cohesively and more collaboratively. Everyone can hit their performance targets while achieving the overarching team bullseye: generate bottom-line value.
The well operator’s new best friend
Unify’s high-resolution data yield unprecedented visibility into what's happening “live” at any second in a plunger lift system, from fall velocities to arrival times. No more operating based on calculated guesses or rules of thumb.
Unify puts the “expert” in expert logic. It draws on five decades of PCS Ferguson’s experience in plunger lift operations. We’ve seen it all, and it’s all in Unify’s logic.
By fully automating plunger cycling based on real-time analytics, Unify optimizes the “pump by exception” operating paradigm. No more unnecessary trips to check status or make minor adjustments. Let Unify transform operating by exception into “operating exceptionally.”
The manager’s digital eyes and ears
Engineering and business managers tend to focus on two things above all: realized bottom-line results and uncaptured upside potential. Unify spans both.
Unify is the digital eyes and ears of management and engineering teams. It delivers data with the granularity to troubleshoot at the level of a single plunger lift well and the richness to delineate subtle opportunities to improve asset performance across an entire portfolio of wells.
From the micro to the macro, Unify helps connect all the dots to provide information in the right contextual framework to drive productivity and reveal mission-critical insights. Beyond automating and optimizing plunger cycles, Unify provides ground-truth intelligence to free engineers and managers from the operational minutia so they can discover the untapped upside.
The CTO’s path to digitization
The SMARTEN Unify Control System makes it a little easier for CTOs and technology managers to live the “good IT life” by making digital adoption as easy as plug and play. That means less time spent constructing screens, maintaining systems, implementing programming upgrades, and training personnel.
As a new branch in PCS Ferguson’s controller architecture, Unify paves a direct path to digitization for plunger lift assets. It’s advanced IT with turnkey simplicity.
It comes ready to integrate into existing SCADA networks. Wi-Fi connectivity eliminates the need for proprietary radio and cellular protocols, and it uses standard APIs for data hosting models. Get everything you want, nothing you don’t need.
The SME’s point of view
“I am pleased to recommend the ChampionX SMARTEN™ Unify Control System. As an expert in plunger lift design and operation, I find the Unify controller to be an exceptional solution for well control.
The Unify controller is set to lead in well monitoring and optimization for the plunger lift sector. I am excited about its potential to revolutionize our industry and look forward to its widespread implementation.
I highly recommend the Unify controller for its innovative features, user-centric design, and exceptional performance in well management.”
CLINT MASON
President
Kaizen Well Solutions Ltd.
Red Deer, Alberta
Introducing SMARTEN Unify
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- Automatically maintain plunger cycling in the “sweet spot”
- Eliminate inefficient trips and unnecessary wear and tear
- Extend the service longevity of downhole and surface equipment
- Live analytics at the edge
- Ultrahigh-resolution, as-it-happens data streaming
- Remote programmability
- Expert logic for plunger lift optimization
- Customizable functionalities
- User-defined notifications
- Seamlessly tie into existing SCADA networks
- License-free Wi-Fi
- Standard data hosting model APIs
The full force of digital
Regardless of a plunger lift well’s production profile, Unify gives you a precisely-matched digital key to unlock efficiency and productivity increases at a cost in line with the financial metrics of marginal assets.
Unify harnesses the latest AI, IoT, and wireless technologies for edge device automated control and 24/7 situational visibility. It centers the full force of logic-based diagnostics and optimization on your wellsite, and seamlessly connects it to digital-enabled offsite data management and analysis workflows.
With Unify, the plunger lift assets relegated to the “marginal” category in your portfolio . . . those wells that have historically been among the most investment-limited . . . may just become some of the smartest and highest-returning of the bunch.
CASE HISTORY
Unify in action
APPLICATION: Vertical well using a conventional plunger
RESULT: Unify pinpoints tubing pressure anomaly to identify standing valve failure
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