Paper: New LACT Project Features Remote Off-Lease Supervisory Equipment

A review of the performance of a 148 producing well automation project operated by remote off-lease supervisory equipment. The experimental project, initiated October 1961, is located on Gulf's Ida Hendrick "A" Lease, Keystone Field, Winkler County, Texas. Solid-state circuitry of modular design transmits and receives information over a four-wire voice frequency, telephone circuit stretching seven to nine miles between field points and area office master control. The supervisory equipment includes a tape-punch-five channel circuit for automatic data processing input. Economics is favorable and overall performance has yielded exceptional accuracy in LACT metering and tank gauging measurement.