Oilfield lightning protection.

Two reasons stacked together: the tanks are the tallest steel for a long way on flat, open ground, so they're a natural strike point — and they hold and vent flammable vapor. If a strike arcs to an unbonded tank or jumps between two pieces of steel at different potential, that arc near a vapor space is an ignition source. Bonding everything together and grounding it hard removes the arc and the path that starts the fire.

Bonding means electrically connecting all the metal — every tank, catwalk, stair, separator, and vessel — so there's no voltage difference between any two pieces during a strike. Lightning damage on a lease usually comes from that difference: the current jumps the gap and arcs. Bond it all to a common ground and there's no gap to jump.

In most cases, yes. A lot of the work — setting terminals, running conductors, driving ground rods, adding bonding jumpers — happens on the structures and around the pad without interrupting production. Anything that does need a controls or power interruption we schedule with you. Tell us the site and we'll plan it around your operation.

Yes. The direct-strike protection and the surge protection on your automation are two halves of the same job, and we do both. A bonded, grounded site protects the structure; coordinated surge protection on RTUs, flow computers, and motor controls protects the electronics that keep the lease reporting and pumping. We tie it together so one strike doesn't take out your production data and your equipment at the same time.

Call the 24-hour line at (979) 616-1608. We respond to strike damage — burned panels, dead controls, tripped or destroyed motor starters — get you back online, and then build the protection so the next storm doesn't repeat it. Oilfield emergency response is part of what we do.

That's the best time to do it. On a new build-out we lay the grounding ring and bonding in with the rest of the lease electrical and set the terminals as the equipment goes in — cleaner, cheaper, and fully integrated instead of retrofitted after the first close call.