Instrumentation for Oil & Gas
Oil and gas facilities need instrumentation that protects people, keeps equipment inside its limits and proves product and emissions meet specification. Engineers typically measure toxic and combustible gas concentrations, pressure at wellheads and process lines, trace contaminants and quality in natural gas, and combustion performance at heaters, boilers and turbines.
Most of that equipment works in classified hazardous areas, outdoors, in heat, humidity and salt air. Detectors and transmitters must carry the right approvals, survive vibration and remain easy to calibrate, because a gas detector that is out of calibration or a transducer that drifts under temperature creates both safety and production risk.
The oil and gas landscape in the Southeast
Louisiana sits at the center of Gulf Coast oil and gas activity. Offshore production in the Gulf of Mexico is supported by fabrication yards and service bases along the Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama coasts. Onshore, gas processing plants, salt-dome storage and an extensive pipeline network move natural gas to industrial users, and LNG export terminals in southwest Louisiana ship it to global markets.
North Louisiana’s Haynesville shale remains an active natural gas play, and renewable natural gas projects at landfills and farms are adding new gas-quality measurement needs across the region. Midstream, processing and LNG operators all depend on reliable gas detection, analyzers and combustion controls.
Solutions we provide
- Gas detection: Delphian supplies catalytic bead, infrared and electrochemical detectors, controllers and multipoint systems for H2S, combustible gases and other toxics, with one-person calibration options. See gas detection systems.
- Pressure measurement: Spectre Corp builds hydraulic, precision and explosion-proof pressure transducers for drilling, wellhead and process service.
- Gas quality and mercury: Ohio Lumex offers mercury monitoring for natural gas, RNG and biogas monitoring systems, process GCs for mud gas analysis, and accredited lab and field sampling. See process analyzers.
- Combustion and emissions: LAMTEC provides O2 trim and burner management with hazardous-area flame scanners and analyzers, and ENVEA (formerly Altech) supplies CEMS in our Louisiana and Gulf Coast territory.
- Temperature and position: Curtiss-Wright Round Rock industrial RTDs and fiber-optic signal networks, and RDP Electrosense submersible and seawater LVDTs for subsea and wellhead equipment.
How Vaughn Associates supports oil and gas teams
Vaughn Associates is an independent manufacturer’s representative with a Baton Rouge office focused on Gulf Coast analytical, emissions and gas detection work. Our team understands hazardous-area requirements and how instruments are specified on capital projects and maintenance replacements.
- Application review: we help confirm gases, ranges, area classification, approvals and communications before you request pricing.
- Quote coordination: we work with each factory on configurations and documentation. Customers typically purchase directly from the manufacturer.
- Demos and evaluations: we arrange demonstrations or rental units where the manufacturer supports them.
- Follow-through: we connect you with factory calibration, spare parts and technical support after startup.
Send us your application on the For Engineers page or find the Gulf Coast team on the territories page.
