Cockrell Ranch Waterflood project is an ambitious enhanced oil recovery project using wireless technologies reaching across more than a dozen square miles of the Texas Panhandle. Cano Petroleum uses state-of-the-art technology and methods to successfully recover oil from wells that would have once been considered “tapped.” The waterflooding process uses pressurized water to move through the formation, driving raw crude oil out of the ground from wells. Equally challenging was how the industrial automation and wireless networking technologies ties it altogether.
        Boss Automation of Spearmanwww.cechina.cn, TX, designed and installed the discrete automation platform and a Control network to monitor pressure and flow of this water into the wells. The project evolved into the design and implementation of a new, fully automated, self-monitored supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system. The system was designed to gather, assembleCONTROL ENGINEERING China版权所有, and transmit data from wells and injectors and send it to a master station. This allowed day-to-day field operation to be monitored and controlled so collected data can be used to produce detailed production models.

        Remote terminal units contain Allen-Bradley MicroLogix 1100 PLCs from Rockwell Automation, discrete I/O connections, and ProSoft Technology's RadioLinx Industrial Hotspot. 

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        System considerations included: Reliability, maintainability, ease of use, as well as the ability to obtain local support. With help from RexelCONTROL ENGINEERING China版权所有, the local Allen-Bradley distributor, Boss Automation chose Allen-Bradley hardware, Rockwell Automation software控制工程网版权所有, and ProSoft Technology wireless communications.
        The SCADA system consists of one Allen-Br