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According to Emma Graney, an energy reporter at the Global and Mail, energy employees in Canada are hesitant to return to a unstable industry. The oilfield labor scarcity threatens to keep equipment idle as oil and gas companies increase expenditure on drilling, fracking, and oilfield building to capitalize on crude oil prices that have recovered…
When people ask us what the difference is between WatchDog® and a supervisory control and data acquisition system known as SCADA, we like to talk about music. Think about your favourite song. Would you rather hit play, sit back and enjoy thetrack or learn how to play every musical instrument to recreate the song…
Our cameras play a key role in helping hundreds of energy companies across North America perform Virtual Wellsite Visits. Three times a day, our cameras snap pictures at wellsites to help operators answer these 3 questions: Is the well pumping? Is the well producing fluid? Is there a leak? In total, our installed base of…
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG) and Increasing Operator Safety using WatchDog and the Virtual Wellsite Visit Oil and gas producers are increasingly aware of the urgent requirement to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This pressure to help the environment often competes with the industry’s highly dynamic market environment and the cost pressure to deliver…
Obsidian Energy Has Expanded its Use of WatchDog ® to Enable the Virtual Wellsite Visit. AFTI Inc., North America’s leading provider of the virtual wellsite visit for wellsite monitoring, today announced that Obsidian Energy Ltd. is expanding its use of the WatchDog® Virtual Wellsite Visit solution. Obsidian Energy is an intermediate-sized oil and gas producer…
Layoffs have cut critical Oilfield Operations staff. Rehiring top talent won’t be easy. Virtual wellsite monitoring technology can fill the gap. According to a recent Deloitte report, the oil and gas industry has suffered the fastest rate of layoffs in history. The U.S. market has shed some 107,000 energy sector jobs since the start of…
We have much to be thankful for this Holiday Season. Despite the global pandemic, our team worked hard and remained healthy while remote from our office for much of 2020. Others in Calgary have been less fortunate. That’s why this Holiday Season we thought it doubly important to give back. As we considered how and…
Big news. AFTI WatchDog is Canada’s leading solution for Virtual Wellsite Monitoring. We recently surpassed a major milestone. WatchDog now vigilantly monitors the production of 10,000 wells across Canada and counting… or approximately 1 of every 8 oil wells currently in production. “It was a long but ultimately satisfying road to where we are today,”…
How do Companies bring Shut-in Wells back on, without the Need to Rehire? For energy markets, the year 2020 started with a promising forecast of industry growth. But as we are all too painfully aware, it hasn’t quite worked out that way. April oil prices dropped below zero for the first time in history, at…
WatchDog Debuts Timer Well Optimization, a New Minute-by-Minute Data Feature. AFTI WatchDog, Canada’s leading solution for the Virtual Well Site Visit, has introduced a new feature which delivers the capability to optimize timer well settings by providing minute-by-minute data. As a result, producers can optimize both timer intervals and alert thresholds on their wells to…
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