Summary Working in the oil industry comes with unique challenges and risks, and so extra precautions and safety measures coupled with strict environmental compliance must be applied. Contrary to the common belief that strict safety enforcement could hinder smooth operations, the deployment of new technologies and enhanced solutions of processes has enabled operational excellence (OE) and improved safety performance. In this paper, we demonstrate health, safety, and environment performance improvement through implementing two main initiatives: The first category has initiatives that require less intervention or personnel; for example, the deployment of cableless pressure sensors or permanent monitoring systems in key wells to ensure continuous real-time pressure data to monitor reservoir pressure. The second category has initiatives that mitigate traditional health, safety, and environment risks; for example, through use of multiphase flow meters (MPFMs) to collect accurate and continuous flow measurements instead of traditional well testing. Optimizing operations costs while maintaining a high-level of safety is achieved through a dedicated team working in a state-of-the-art Production Operations Surveillance Hub (POSH), which enables the monitoring of wells in real time, making production optimization decisions, and ensuring a high level of well integrity via close monitoring of wells and assets.

Summary Metering with multiphase flowmeters (MPFMs) is a well-proven intelligent field technology, which utilizes complex flow models to accurately measure multiphase flow (oil, gas, and water) on a real-time basis. The major realized benefits of utilizing MPFM real-time sensor data technology are reduced maintenance costs, optimized maintenance schedules, and improved safety via minimizing visits and predicting well performance. MPFMs also have the capability to perform comprehensive real-time test validation in a short period of time, making them a valuable tool. Leveraging their capabilities, engineers can perform various production analysis scenarios remotely using continuous data streaming to reduce and ultimately eliminate reliance on operators and vendors in remote fields. Nevertheless, such MPFMs require frequent maintenance, which could be quite difficult to manage when having a large number of meters. An in-house application was developed to support those objectives and to remotely monitor the health of all MPFMs on a real-time basis. The in-house analytics system comprises four modules: Field Overview, MPFM Overview, Well Test Management, and Alarm Management. The steps used to avail this kind of solution cover infrastructure requirements, visualization requirements, optimization, and prediction. The solution was designed as the major interface for engineers to proactively detect and prevent major MPFM component failures and highlight all types of projected MPFM component failures. It proactively harvests preset alarms, which leads to preventing internal MPFM parts from failing. These alarms are generated based on critical parameters measured by the MPFM such as rates, differential pressure (DP), and radioactive measurements. Annual savings are realized through use of the monitoring solution by minimizing costly offshore visits and optimizing the visits based on problematic MPFMs. The authors will discuss a newly developed MPFM health monitoring strategy based on real-time solutions, driving migration from a preventative to a predictive maintenance concept to reduce costs and optimize manpower time by eliminating unnecessary visits.