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About Integrated Control Systems, Inc.
ICS offers the CardBuild® control system and
software configuration services for oil well rod pump units. This
patent pending, field proven, innovative combination of hardware
and software allows our customers to achieve higher levels of
fluid displacement than any other system currently in use. At the
same time, it lowers mechanical stress on the pumping equipment
and causes less disturbance on the incoming power line.
“Customers buy our equipment because it does
what it is supposed to do, consistently and reliably. We have
technology that no one else has.”
Experience
The ICS team has been personally involved in
the application, start-up and service of tens of thousands of
variable frequency drives (VFDs) in a large part of the world
over a period of many years. We have worked on all five major
continents, on platforms and on a ferry boat in the Gulf of
Alaska. Thousands of these applications were oil field related.
All of them taught us how to have VFDs control various
processes in a variety of applications under a wide range of
operating conditions.
Development
The idea of this product started with a basic
question: “If there were an ideal control system for a rod pump,
what would it do?” Having someone who spent years responsible
for oil field operations, the goals were assembled quickly.
Increased displacement without exceeding equipment limitations,
better reliability (not only more uptime, but also accurate
repetition every pump stroke), less power usage, improved power
quality, and extended life for the surface and downhole
equipment.
The next question was: “How do you do that?”
That took a little longer to answer. Actually, it has taken four
years of extensive effort. We had some basic ideas from our long
experience, but found that some of the products that we had used
were not adequate for the speed and accuracy required by this
application. We had to find VFDs and controls that had higher
capabilities. Then we had to adapt that equipment to do what we
needed it to do. We subjected what we produced to the scrutiny
of experienced well operators and analysts. All of this was
done with a commitment to all of the desired results and a
confidence that we really could produce that control system. We
did. We call it the CardBuild®
system because it allows an operator to
actually design a pump stroke that produces a Dynagraph Card
that looks the way the operator wants it to look. The other
result is that we have filed two U.S. patent applications and
one International patent application in the last two years on
various aspects of this product.
“We have installed approximately 600 of the
CardBuild® Control Systems in in five California oil
fields over the last four years. Most of these are running on
deep wells with high load and high displacement. The CardBuild®
Control System has proven to be very stable; delivering
consistent operation and loading stroke after stroke. On wells
where we replaced another control system, we have increased the
displacement and substantially reduced the number of incidents
that required major repairs.”
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