Chris Smithson
Chief Technology Officer
Mr. Smithson graduated from the University of Houston with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering Technology. He joined CROFT’s Engineering Team in 2011, with a vision to improve CROFT products and designs for production equipment. During Mr. Smithson's tenure with CROFT, he was promoted several times, and currently holds the role of Chief Technology Officer. Under his leadership, the CROFT Team has launched multiple new product lines; CROFT’s Chemical Injection System (for which he personally received a patent), Fuel-gas Conditioning System, and Ambient Cooling System, as well as improving the designs of the Gas Sweetening System and Joule Thomson System product lines. Mr. Smithson’s expertise and leadership include consulting on multiple oil and gas projects around the world, plus CROFT’s technology advancements by implementing the latest 3D CAD design/analysis software, product data management, along with process simulation software for Chemical and Hydrocarbon processes. Ultimately, Mr. Smithson’s main focus is to continue to improve CROFT’s products and designs to meet industry demand.
Introduction Cameron Croft: Welcome, everybody. Thank you for joining us on our series, Saving Money in Oil and Gas Operations. This episode is specific to asset integrity and repairs. We created this series to allow subject matter experts to come on and just share their knowledge with the industry, oil, and gas industry so that […]
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Most customers dread having to conduct a full cleanout of a TEG dehydrator. The cleanout sometimes implies shutdowns or drop in capacity. One of the ways CROFT designed the Passive Dehydration System (PDS) is to be utilized as a quick, easy, and a temporary way to bypass a TEG and continue to dehydrate the gas while your TEG is shut down and getting serviced/cleaned out.
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Amine Plant processing Acid Gas
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In this webinar, Saving Money in Operations: Glycol Dehydration, we engage with experts discussing glycol dehydration units and optimization.
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Introduction Cameron Croft: All right, everybody. It’s 11:00 so we’re going to get this webinar started. I’m excited about this episode in our series, saving money in oil and gas operations. Now today’s focus our episode, we’re having our subject matter expert Chad Dorsett join us today, talking about Plunger Lift Optimization and LOE Savings. […]
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In this webinar, we focus on utilizing what you have and preparing both your sites and staff for future successes.
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In this series we’re going to be interviewing a lot of subject matter experts, bringing them on, they’re going to be talking from their perspectives of what do they see are key things that we need to focus on.
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Raw natural gas must be dehydrated to remove water vapor. Natural gas dehydration will eliminate the formation of hydrates and over-saturation of natural gas. All of these issues can cause corrosion, impacting the longevity of your gas processing equipment, and cause the gas stream to not meet pipeline specifications.
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Okay, okay…I know oil & gas prices is not new news by any means. Even I and my colleague, Amy, have written countless blogs regarding the oil & gas industry’s market in some way. I find myself hanging my head low as we ring in the new year because of all the negative buzz about the 2016 […]
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I’m not sure if you know it or not, but BIG things are happening in the world of natural gas! The price of natural gas is still pretty low but that is not slowing down the growth of liquefied natural gas or LNG terminals on the Gulf Coast. Last year I wrote about the massive LNG terminal […]
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Prior to entering the oil & gas industry, if you would have asked me what a Landman was I would have thought that it was someone working on a farm, tending to his land to support either himself, his family, or his business. Well, I am sure that the name “Landman” can be used in […]
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*Updated May 2020 Working on an oil & gas site can be dangerous in many ways. This is why many procedures and protocols are in place for accident prevention. Let’s hone in on safety gear and protocols specific to working with H2S, as this directly affects many of our clients and our field service team. […]
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This week our Guest Blogger is Ben Odom, Producer, and Terry Tomasino, Marketing Account Executive for McGriff, Seibels & Williams. McGriff is the 5th largest brokerage firm in the United States and the 6th largest worldwide. McGriff is a full service broker with 8 operating divisions- one of which is Energy and Marine. AN INTRODUCTION TO CERTIFICATES OF INSURANCE […]
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People are constantly talking about our dependence on oil. It’s true. America as a whole is dependent on the oil and gas industry and it’s not just for gasoline. I truly believe that people forget how many things they touch every day that have some type of petroleum in them. I mean heck, the keyboard […]
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Our flagship unit, the FCS-500, is simply a combination of our other systems, packaged onto a single skid.
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While driving into work yesterday I was doing my usual radio channel surfing. I ended up on one of my favorite morning stations, 88.7 Houston Public Media. I stayed on the station because the story that I caught the tail end of mentioned my home town of Katy, TX. More specifically a grocery store I sometimes shop at. […]
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Last week’s blog was an overview of how the State of Pennsylvania plans to cut methane emissions throughout their state’s oil and gas industry. Their Governor, Tom Wolf, and his Environmental Protection Secretary, John Quigley, rolled out their four step plan to ensure that the bustling Marcellus Shale Play doesn’t ruin the air quality for the entire state. This week I want […]
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Okay, okay…I know oil & gas prices is not new news by any means. Even I and my colleague, Amy, have written countless blogs regarding the oil & gas industry’s market in some way. I find myself hanging my head low as we ring in the new year because of all the negative buzz about the 2016 […]
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CROFT has started something new this year! As you know Amy Jerina and Jessica Lee have been writing twice a week for over a year now to bring you the latest and greatest in the oil and gas industry- we will continue to do this, but have decided to add some flavor to the mix. Every week, we will […]
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2016 is starting out just as many predicted, with more regulations being piled onto the oil and gas industry. One state, in particular, is really cracking down. Just recently the Governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Wolf, made an announcement that will affect all oil and gas sites in the state. And there are a lot. If you did […]
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