Graeme Smith

Senior Staff Process Engineer Murphy Oil

Graeme Smith is the senior staff process engineer for Murphy Oil and is responsible for process engineering and production chemistry for Murphy’s Gulf of Mexico assets. He holds a BS degree in chemical engineering from Monash University in Australia and is a Chartered Engineer with Institution of Chemical Engineers. Smith has worked in various roles in the upstream offshore oil and natural gas industry, including process design in the North Sea, equipment package supply in the Middle East, troubleshooting and debottlenecking globally, and in operations for Murphy. He is on the technical committee for the SPE Separations Technology group and on the Produced Water Society’s Annual Conference technical committee.

AI/machine learning

Framework for AI- and ML-Based Predictive Maintenance for Offshore Rotating Equipment

This study examines the implementation of a predictive maintenance method using artificial intelligence and machine learning for offshore rotating production-critical equipment. Conducted over 2 years at Murphy Oil’s deepwater platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, the project aimed to detect equipment issues early, reduce downtime, and streamline maintenance processes.

January 20, 2025 • Bilal Hussain • Data Science and Digital Engineering
Processing systems/design

Savvy Separator: Oversizing Separators—Too Much of a Good Thing?

Oversizing a separator ensures meeting the life cycle needs of a facility, but are we setting ourselves up for failure in the long run? With peak rates typically being short-lived at best, or at worse, well beyond actual production rates, more weight needs to be given to the tail-end of production.

May 22, 2018 • Bryan Arciero • Oil and Gas Facilities
Processing systems/design

Savvy Separator: Operational Troubleshooting of Separators

In this tenth article of the series, the author focuses primarily on specific operational elements of troubleshooting rather than the mechanical design of the separator.

January 26, 2017 • Graeme Smith • Oil and Gas Facilities