Automated Stimulation Delivery Platform

Automates and streamlines surface operations

APPLICATIONS The automated stimulation delivery platform
■■ Unconventional completions automates and streamlines surface operations,
■■ Continuous, high-intensity resulting in a smaller footprint, sustained
fracturing operations efficiencies, and substantially reduced NPT. A
combination of bulk material delivery and storage
BENEFITS systems, equipment designed for continuous
■■ Sustains operational efficiency operations, automated processes, and accurate
■■ Reduces equipment downtime with inventory management, the platform drives more
predictive health processes and efficient, reliable, and cost-effective fracturing
redundant equipment operations with reduced HSE risks.
■■ Reduces operational footprint The platform’s main components are a proppant
■■ Lowers HSE risks delivery and storage system, a process trailer, and
■■ Improves traffic flow an automated missile, all of which are monitored
and managed from a central control cabin.
FEATURES
■■ Modular systems Proppant delivery and storage system
streamlines materials management
■■ Automated processes
The platform’s self-contained proppant delivery
■■ Bulk material delivery and storage and storage system consists of A and B silos, a
Automated stimulation delivery platform.
■■ Predictive health monitoring of equipment base frame for the silos, a silo erector trailer, and
■■ Automatic invoicing for proppant a proppant loader trailer. Process trailer executes fracturing jobs
and chemicals as designed
A complete set of silos includes two A
Numerous built-in redundancies Equipped with eight liquid additive systems, two
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silos and two B silos, with a total storage
dry additive systems, and one gel delivery and
■■ Dust control capacity of 10,000 ft3 divided among the four
mixing system, the process trailer creates blends
Accurate, real-time inventory control vertical compartments. Level sensors in each
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with precise concentrations of powder, liquid,
compartment prevent overfilling, and load
and aqueous gel by scanning a code of the job
cells under each silo measure proppant weight
design information. A hydration unit mixes dry
for accurate blending concentrations and
polymer powder with water to form an aqueous
inventory management. A dust-collection system
gel, and the POD* programmable optimum density
effectively reduces HSE risks associated with
blender blends and pumps up to 120 bbl/min
proppant transfer.
[19 m3/min] of fracturing slurry.
A base frame supports the system’s four silos,
A fully integrated A/C electric power-generation
and both the base frame and the silos are
unit delivers high reliability and reduced
transported to the site by a silo erector trailer
emissions, and modular components allow
that runs on its own power pack.
seamless maintenance to reduce NPT.
During delivery, a door on the underside of the
Automated missile revolutionizes
proppant loader truck opens to allow proppant
pump performance
to fall into the receptacle, which transports the
The platform uses a revolutionary automated
proppant up and into the silos. This method
missile to reduce the number of pumps needed,
streamlines traffic flow on location and
minimize capex, and extend equipment life.
minimizes dust and noise. The proppant loader
By rerouting abrasive proppants through the
truck can be positioned on either side of the base
hydraulic pumping system and away from high-
frame and silos, and can access all four silos
pressure pumps, the automated missile enables
from either side. The design allows two sand
operators to use any pump, reducing costs and
haulers to unload at the same time.
increasing pump run life.
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High-pressure freshwater and low-pressure fracturing fluid flow into the
missile separately. The freshwater then pushes the fracturing fluid out
of the missile and downhole. With its energy transferred to the fracturing
fluid, the low-pressure freshwater exits the automated missile before being
directed back, filtered, and recirculated, creating an energy-efficient loop.

Control cabin simplifies on-location operations

The platform’s automated process control system runs all equipment
on location with a one-touch approach that does not require manual
adjustments and ensures that each job is run as designed.

The system also monitors more than 1,500 predictive health data samples
on equipment platform-wide to determine optimal maintenance intervals
and address issues before they lead to unnecessary downtime.

Equipment sensors and instruments verify material weight and volume to

monitor and capture job data, generate invoices automatically for proppant
and chemicals, and facilitate inventory management. Automated missile.

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