Production Chemistry Test Automation For Friction Loop And Core Flow Systems

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The chemistry team was running friction loop and core flow tests manually, capturing results in spreadsheets that drifted across operators and sessions. Reproducing runs was unreliable. Comparing datasets was painful. Building the structured data foundation needed for modeling and AI-driven analytics was effectively impossible. The bottleneck was not the instruments; it was data quality.

Good Automation built a unit-aware data capture system with enforced metadata, automated reporting, and a structured database backend. The result: a manual R&D lab workflow transformed into a repeatable, queryable system ready for advanced analytics and AI. Every run produces traceable, machine-readable data from day one.

Chemistry lab fluid viscosity friction loop automation

Automated a friction loop system for driving fluid samples through compacted core samples to measure fluid viscosity and friction characteristics for the Production Engineering Chemistry R&D Lab's fracking chemistry development.

R&D chemistry lab data management website and database

Developed an internal website and database for all lab activities in a hydrocarbon production engineering chemistry R&D lab.

Rock permeability tester for fracking chemistry R&D

Automated a rock permeability tester for characterizing how fluids flow through rock formations under controlled conditions, supporting the Production Engineering Chemistry R&D Lab's custom fracking chemistry development.

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Medtronic GD Energy Products Bell Helicopter Johnson & Johnson GE Healthcare Halliburton Shell Stryker Alcon Abbott Qorvo Qualcomm Keysight Technologies National Instruments MIT Oak Ridge National Lab Ethicon Bridgestone IBM U.S. Department of Energy Georgia Tech Stanford University University of Texas at Austin Verb Surgical Berkeley Lab Pacific Northwest Lab Hewlett Packard Enterprise Gardner Denver Lockheed Martin

Project Highlights

  • Transformed data quality from spreadsheet-grade to AI-ready; every run now produces structured, traceable, machine-readable datasets.
  • Built an R&D chemistry lab database designed for advanced analytics and modeling from day one.
  • Rock permeability tester also automated as part of the broader engagement, extending the same data quality standards across the lab.