Profire is an oilfield technology company, providing products that enhance
the efficiency, safety, and compliance of the oil and gas industry. We specialize
in the creation of burner-management systems used on a variety of oilfield natural-draft
fire tube vessels. We sell our products and services primarily throughout North
America. Our experienced team of industry service professionals also provides
supporting services for our products. We were originally incorporated in the
State of Nevada on May 5, 2003. Since October 2008, we have been primarily engaged
in the business of developing burner-management technologies for the oil and
gas industry.
In the oil and natural gas industry, there are numerous demands for heat generation
and control. Oilfield vessels of all kinds, including line-heaters, dehydrators,
separators, treaters, amine reboilers, and free-water knockout systems require
heat to satisfy their various functions, which is provided by a burner flame
inside the vessel. This burner flame is integral to the operation of the vessel
because these vessels use the flames heat to facilitate the proper function
of the vessel. Such functions include separating, storing, transporting and
purifying oil and gas (or even water). For example, the viscosity of oil and
moisture content (and temperature) of gas are critical to a number of oilfield
processes, and are directly affected by the heat provided by the burner flame
inside the vessel. Our burner-management systems help ignite, monitor, and manage
this burner flame, reducing the need for employee interaction with the burner,
such as for the purposes of re-ignition or temperature monitoring.
As a result, oil and gas producers can achieve increased safety, greater operational
efficiencies, and improved compliance with industry regulations. We believe,
despite the current industry down turn, there is a growing trend in the oil
and gas industry toward enhanced control, process automation, and data logging,
partly for potential regulatory-satisfaction purposes. We believe that enhanced
burner-management products and services can help our customers be compliant
with such regulatory requirements, where applicable. In addition to selling
products, we train and dispatch service technicians to service burner flame
installations in Canada and throughout the United States.
We initially developed our first burner-management system in 2005. Since 2005,
we have released several iterations of our initial burner-management system,
increasing features and capabilities, while maintaining compliance with Canadian
Standards Association (CSA) and Underwriters Laboratories (UL) ratings.
Our burner-management systems have become widely used in Western Canada, and
throughout many regions in the United States. We have sold our burner-management
systems to many large energy companies, including Anadarko, Chesapeake Energy,
ConocoPhillips, Devon Energy, Encana, Exxon-Mobil, Petro-Canada, Shell and others.
Our systems have also been sold or installed in other parts of the world, including
France, Italy, Ukraine, India, Nigeria, the Middle East, Australia, and Brazil.
While we have an interest in expanding our international distribution capabilities,
our current principal focus is on the North American oil and gas market.
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