Breakthrough Engenuity LLC
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Breakthrough Engenuity 2025
"Where engineering meets ingenuity!"
Our industry is blessed with ingenuity. It all began in 1859 with Drake's first Titusville, PA oil well. In those days whale oil was used as fuel for lamp oil lighting throughout the world. Drake's radical but ingenious idea was that crude oil could replace whale oil, and change the world. The industry grew rapidly. Within 15 years, oil wells could be found from Illinois to the New England seaboard. By 1890 the whale oil business had been replaced by kerosene, refined from crude oil. John D. Rockefeller, owner of Standard Oil Company, had become the wealthiest man in the world. And since Standard Oil Company's operations were all east of the Mississippi River Rockefeller publicly predicted that, "No oil would ever be found west of the Mississippi." Two years after his prediction, and a few miles outside Beaumont in south Texas, the world's largest oil well was discovered. It flowed an amazing 100,000 barrels of oil a day. So much for predictions!
In the early days most oil wells were drilled with water well rigs called "Spudders" in locations selected with "witching" sticks, or on a hunch. Ninety percent of them were dry holes. Soon, Amerada Petroleum, dissatisfied with low success rates, developed the seismic-wave "Thumper" technology which improved the odds of finding new oil to 90%. Then, as rotary rigs began replacing spudder rigs, Howard Hughes introduced his now famous tri-cone drill bit. Wells could be finally be drilled in weeks instead of months.
Since then conditions have continued to change! Though vertically completed wells dominated the industry for its first 150 years, today's horizontally completed wells can produce ten to fifty times as much oil and gas. This has been a true "game changer". And now, most oilfield equipment designed before 2000 falls short of efficient separation and processing due to these prolific production increases! It's a new era! And in this new era demands we need to rethink the approaches of the past. In the last century CAPEX ex was king. Low bidders won most contracts. Industry's most costly commodity today is downtime. Eliminating it pays huge dividends, making CAPEX take a back seat in today's thought process.
In 2012 the USA become energy independent again. Since then vertical well completions have almost become obsolete! Long-lateral, horizontal completions with multi-stage frac jobs are the order of the day, bringing in highly prolific new wells. Increased production rates and higher oil prices now focuses more attention on the efficiency of equipment and facility design and less on capital costs. New issues like the vapor pressure of crude oil, and the effects of frac cocktails on oil and water quality are serious concerns, and the high cost of downtime are reducing the historical focus on the capital costs across the board. Equipment designs now focus on eliminating downtime at nearly any cost. And at Breakthrough, ours do! Our separators separate more. Our treaters treat more. Our "Signature Plug-N-Play" CTB (central tank battery) designs focus on minimizing long-term CAPEX while eliminating all downtime by optimizing designs, swapping out larger equipment for scaled down process equipment used as wells experience their new-normal decline rates.
The bottom line is increased profit for YOU!
Breakthrough Engenuity was founded by Bill Ball. His credentials represent the culmin-
ation of a lifetime of breakthroughs and innovations. Bill's twenty-three US process equipment patents speak to this. His first patent has become an industrywide "game changer". It is the industry's first true oil-water separation "skim tank", the "HWSB". Today there are over 5,000 HWSB® skim tanks separating and capturing oil that used to be injected and lost forever. Each HWSB® captures 99.9% of all oil from produced water streams processed in produciton facilities (CTB's) and Salt Water Disposal (SWD) plants alike. The HWSB® outperforms sequenced "Gun Barrel" tanks commonly used inthe past! Complimenting the HWSB® is the DFSD®. The DFSD® is single tank that de-sands and de-gasses the inlet water, and then divodes the effluent flow equally into downstream HWSB®s. Both function with no moving parts, keeping operations simple. Both are perfect for all remote and central tank batteries and all SWD plants.
Bill's design innovations have been game changers for the companies like EOG, where his patented horizontal high-pressure separators and patented horizontal heater treaters were used in every Eagle Ford CTB from 2012 to 2015, helping propel EOG to become the largest oil producer in the USA in 2014 and again in 2015. Many other large and smaller oil companies lile Shell, Exxon, Devon Energy, and PetroHunt, use Breakthruogh's custom designed process equipment. Bill, through his HIGH-TECH Consultants, Inc. firm, also designed over 50% of all SWD plants built in the USA between 1992 to 2015. In 2014, and in order to see that his technologies live on, Bill sold these two patents and several other to KBK Industries to perpetuate the use of these key technologies for decades to come. KBK offers them to the oil industry here in the USA and worldwide.
Breakthrough Engenuity's clients benefit from Bill's innovations. The name “Breakthrough Engenuity” says it all. It's where breakthrough concepts and ingenious applications come together to create unique, efficient, original, and very special results for you.
CALL BILL BALL AT 918-231-9698