Technology Showcase

Keynote

Patty Horvatich
Senior Vice President, Business Investment, Pittsburgh Regional Alliance

Presenting Companies

In a format similar to that of a venture capital fair, the following selected suppliers will deliver an 8-minute presentation followed by a 2-minute Q&A session.

Capwell Services, Inc.

Andrew Lane
Chief Executive Officer

Capwell has developed a micro vapor recovery unit engineered to capture the low and intermittent flow vents (<50 MCFD) that conventional equipment cannot serve. VRUs are ill-equipped for low-flow applications that require sensitive suction control as they have large compressors that require minimum gas flow and can cause pressure swings upstream. Our unit addresses these technical issues through on-skid gas accumulation to boost volume and pressure and the use of a small reciprocating compressor. The unit ties into a vent source with a piped or flanged connection, draws vapor at ounces of suction pressure, and discharges the recovered gas to the operator’s sales or fuel gas line at 200+ psig. This novel process allows our unit to be half the cost of a VRU, making recovery economic at low flows.

The unit is skid-mounted, modular, and rated for hazardous location service. It operates autonomously and streams live capture volumes, pressures, and equipment health into operator SCADA and our dashboard, giving pad operations real-time visibility into a vent source they previously didn’t measure. Capwell holds a granted US patent, a second application pending, and a filed Canadian patent.

Flotek Industries/JP3

Roger Nounou
Emissions Data Services Leader

The JP3 VeraCAL system is an optical calorimeter engineered to characterize flare, vent, natural gas, and field gas streams. The system combines a JP3 Verax SSG near-infrared spectrometer, an integrated bypass flow cell, sample conditioning, communications, and control components within a rugged NEMA 4X/IP66 enclosure.

Gas is drawn from the flare line by an integrated pump and passed through a heated sample path and measurement cell. The sample is maintained at 60°C and regulated to a stable measurement pressure to preserve gas-phase conditions. The near-infrared spectrum is analyzed using multivariate chemometric models to determine C1-C6+ hydrocarbon composition and calculate Net Heating Value (NHV). The system also records sample pressure and temperature.

Instrument performance is checked using a sealed, NIST-traceable reference cell, eliminating the need for external carrier or calibration gases. Wavelength tuning occurs with each scan, with periodic spectrum calibration providing additional quality assurance.

The system accommodates flare-line pressures from 0 to 140 psig, including low- and variable-pressure applications. It is housed on a transportable cart that can be moved by wheels, forklift, or hoist and includes remote communications, a local touchscreen, Modbus connectivity, and optional analog and digital I/O.

Intertech Ci

Scott Marks
Senior Business Development Manager

Integrated security and AI-powered perimeter protection help E&P and Midstream operators secure critical infrastructure, reduce operational risk, and maintain continuous operations. By combining intelligent video analytics, intrusion detection, access control, remote monitoring, and real-time alarm management into a unified platform, operators can identify and respond to potential threats faster while minimizing nuisance alarms. These solutions improve situational awareness across remote and unmanned sites, protect personnel and assets, support regulatory compliance, and reduce the need for routine on-site security patrols.

Integrated security and perimeter protection solutions that combine intelligent video surveillance, AI-powered analytics, access control, intrusion detection, remote monitoring, and centralized alarm management to secure critical energy infrastructure. Designed for both fixed and remote sites, the platform delivers real-time situational awareness, rapid incident detection, and seamless integration with existing operational and security systems.

Peak Values Consulting

Edward Krueger
Chief Executive Officer and Founder

A consulting-led approach for designing and building organization-specific operational intelligence systems, Peak Ops combines data engineering, machine learning, governed Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, and AI agents to detect operational issues and deliver contextualized summaries.

Each engagement begins below the agent layer. Peak Values assesses and connects the operator’s SCADA/Historian and sensor data, production history, shut-in events, maintenance and field logs, forecasts, and asset information to a central workstream. The team then builds out any remaining context missing from source systems: consistent asset identities, timestamps, units, relationships, quality flags, and trusted calculations. We then develop and integrate analytical components including anomaly detection, production-decline monitoring, forecast variance, event classification, and asset-condition indicators based on that operator’s equipment, operating conditions, and workflows.

Curated MCP tools expose only relevant results and supporting evidence to the agent. This allows the agent to answer questions such as “What are my problem wells?” without ingesting unbounded raw database output. The same intelligence can operate proactively: triggers generate daily route summaries, shift-handoff briefs, engineering alerts, or executive exception summaries. Each output can include likely contributors, supporting evidence, source timestamps, and recommended next steps, while consequential actions remain subject to human review and approval.

SLB

Stephen Garcia
Emissions Technical Analyst

SLB’s Aura OGI camera transforms LDAR surveys, combining high-resolution methane detection and quantification with digital capabilities for navigating, documenting and managing inspections. Its midwave infrared (MWIR) imaging and gas enhancement mode (GEM) can detect methane leaks as small as 0.02 kg/h, while its nonradiometric architecture eliminates the need for annual calibration and minimizes maintenance.

The system supports high-volume component inspections through route training, navigation and simultaneous inspection, with augmented reality (AR) supporting precise targeting. Built-in metadata tagging documents survey information, while RTK-GNSS provides centimeter-level positioning and automated route guidance for repeatable inspection paths.

Aura OGI’s onboard quantification capability calculates an emissions rate and confidence level at the point of detection. High bit-depth footage preserves plume detail, while range-finder measurements and real-time wind data provide key inputs for quantification. Onboard guidance monitors camera position, stability and wind conditions during data capture.

The high-resolution streaming app enables operators to view and control the camera in the field or remotely. It delivers 4× higher resolution for sharper live imagery and enables full remote control, including routing and targeting. Internet-based streaming allows access from anywhere, and the app also integrates quantification, live emission readings, guidance alerts, and wind data into a single interface.

SLB

Tanveer Shahid
Product Engineer – Smith Bits

This technology integrates advanced sensors directly into a PDC (polycrystalline diamond compact) drill bit to generate high-resolution borehole images while drilling. Instrumented cutters embedded within the bit measure forces generated as the bit interacts with the formation, capturing high-frequency force and dynamic data relative to the bit’s rotation and depth. These measurements are mapped against azimuth and depth to reconstruct a continuous 360-degree image of the borehole, effectively creating a “virtual core” of the formation. The system works by having trailing instrumented sensors measuring force on freshly drilled formation surface, detecting variations in rock properties.

This force data is processed and visualized using color scaling techniques, enabling detailed imaging of geological features. Laboratory and field testing have shown the ability to resolve millimeter-scale features, including fractures, veins, bedding planes, lithological changes, and grain characteristics. Importantly, technology captures formation details at the point of drilling, avoiding distortion from drilling fluids or borehole degradation. The processed data delivers high-fidelity images that support accurate formation characterization, improved Geo-Steering, and enhanced understanding of subsurface rock properties in real time.