RFID helps the oil and gas industry to realize valve tracking automation
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In the past few years, the use of RFID to track various valves in the oil and gas development industry has quietly risen. With the continuous development and maturity of this technology, the scope of application of RFID in the oil and gas industry has continued to expand, and the utilization rate has also increased year by year.
The most common way for the oil and gas industry to adopt RFID technology is to install RFID tags on various assets. Valve magazine once reported on the advantages of RFID in the oil and gas industry. Read-write devices are installed at the entrances of warehouses and freight yards, which can record various assets entering and leaving the warehouse every day in real time. The biggest benefit of RFID technology is to help oil and gas developers and valve manufacturers reduce the tedious text work of recording asset usage, maintenance and inspections.
Xerafy’s Micro XII tag series is a high-strength industrial-grade RFID tag, designed to provide real-time and operable asset RFID solutions for the oil and gas development industry. Through the automatic tracking and recording function of RFID, it can ensure that all assets can be maintained regularly And inspections have reduced production delay losses due to asset downtime for oil and gas developers.
International oil giant Anadarko is using Protech Sales’Ontrase solution to automate management of various valve assets. By installing the Ontrase system, this solution uses idsTAG software and Xerafy’s high-strength RFID tags to provide customers with a series of automated management functions for point-to-point valves from installation, use, maintenance, and lubrication.
For automatic valve tracking, the read-write distance is an important consideration. Carol Arnim, Anadarko’s project manager, said that if the tag’s read-write distance is long enough, it can help staff to read and write asset information more conveniently during equipment maintenance.
Recently, Xerafy is working with our partners to develop an RFID tag for valves that replaces the existing steel nameplate. This product will be better than the existing valve RFID installation method.
In addition to general asset management, RFID can also effectively improve the efficiency of remote asset MRO. The RFID tag with large capacity memory (32k) allows users to repeatedly add, rewrite or edit asset information. The label data format complies with the ISO/IEC 18000-6C (EPCglobal Gen2) standards published by the industry, and remote network access is not allowed. Large-capacity tags will provide information storage and recording functions for some remote working environments where it is not convenient to obtain information.
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