21 DECEMBER 2024 WorldWide Drilling Resource® The Launch of AutoSep Technologies Adapted from Information by CNX Resources Corporation Deep Well Services (DWS) and CNX Resources Corp. announced a joint venture to launch AutoSepSM Technologies, a new oilfield service company providing step change improvement to conventional flowback operations. The new entity will benefit from the technological development capabilities of CNX and the service quality standard DWS provides to the industry. As a standalone company operated by DWS, AutoSep will have the flexibility and autonomy to provide automated flowback solutions to the gas and oil industry. The new, highly compact system can be deployed in a fraction of the time and requires less labor, while reducing costs, improving safety, and lowering the environmental impact associated with conventional flowback operations. Each year 20,000 wells are flowed back in the United States, along with 60,000 wells globally. "Leveraging CNX's proprietary and patent-pending technology, AutoSep's flowback solution simplifies and automates this early production phase significantly, reducing the footprint, hard iron connections, manpower required, and any inherent safety risks involved in performing such tasks," commented David Mulvihill, chief strategy officer of DWS. Mr. Mulvihill continued, "Additional benefits include remote operation and monitoring through SCADA [Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems] and closedcircuit cameras that feed to a central control center located outside of safety red zones. This also automates data collection, allowing customers to access data in real-time through DWS's industry-leading BoreSite® system." AutoSep's automated control unit allows for a fully sealed flowback effectively eliminating methane emissions, including sand trap blowdowns. This is considered to be the market's first readily available solution for capturing methane vapors, including during simultaneous operations. DWS and CNX believe the technology is applicable for drill out operations and intend to market the technology to operators across domestic and international gas and oil basins seeking to lower capital costs while reducing emissions. Ravi Srivastava, president of CNX New Technologies said, "CNX has been hard at work developing proprietary, game-changing technologies and processes to advance the state-of-the-art across the industry. With this collaboration, DWS and CNX are unlocking step change improvements in completions operations that check all the boxes - lower emissions, lower costs, and a safer process. Successful tests have been conducted on several recent CNX flowback operations, and we see enormous market potential for this solution and are excited to begin promoting the benefits of this new, innovative oilfield service across the U.S. and beyond." G&O Booth 1021
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