Integration of People, Process and Technology for Right-Time Production Management and Optimisation in Brunei Shell Petroleum

Alkhadhuri, Shaikhan Mohamed; Narayasamy, Devarajan; Sh-Said, Sheikh-Mohamed

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“…For example, the term enhanced oil recovery (EOR), the focus of many chemical engineering researchers, is used to encompass the use of materials and operating practices to increase the amount of oil extracted from a reservoir. As another example, the term intelligent fields or similar is used to denote the extensive use of computers and communications for integrated, remote, and heavily computer‐assisted work flows in drilling and production operations 45, 46. In fact, monitoring a drill bit or a remotely activated valve in a “smart well” thousands of feet below surface from thousands of miles away is not unlike space mission control, and in some ways not less challenging.…”

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Technologies for oil and gas production: Present and future

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“…With the advent of better communications and the movement for Smart Fields TM or Real Time Operations (references [15], [16], [22]. [23]), metered flows throughout an entire oil and gas production network are now often available in real time in the office domain and are archived in databases.…”

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“…This is part of the BSP and the Shell Group Smart Fields TM strategy to make full use of the currently ever-improving communications and information processing capabilities to significantly improve well and reservoir management (references [15], [16]). This is part of the BSP and the Shell Group Smart Fields TM strategy to make full use of the currently ever-improving communications and information processing capabilities to significantly improve well and reservoir management (references [15], [16]).…”

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Asset-Wide Reconciled Production Monitoring—A Key Enabler to Successful Real-Time Field Management

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This paper describes how Brunei Shell Petroleum Co Sdn Bhd (BSP) uses cross validated and reconciled real time production data across large offshore and onshore production networks to support more proactive day-to-day oil and gas production surveillance and management. Examples are presented of the gathering network surveillance systems for the extensive BSP East and Darat Production Assets.In modern oil fields, there is an abundance of instrumentation distributed over often large geographical areas. The production network ranges from the individual wellheads, to production manifolds, test and bulk separators, past surge vessels and export pumps, to crude dehydration tanks at a central crude terminal or to the gas compressors and gas export points. At least the initial parts of the production gathering network at the wells will have multiphase flow with uncertain and variable oil, water and gas proportions. Normally the most downstream flow meters are well calibrated with good calibration records, but the actual accuracy of the majority of the flow meters upstream will be uncertain, and they will not be nominally designed to handle multiphase fluids or mixtures of fluids with varying densities. Conventionally, it is regarded to be problematic to track production variations in real time across the network back to the source wells. This is due to issues with metering multiphase flows and assumed uncertain transport delays.It is shown here that it is now practical to track in real time production rates across large production networks, working back from the most downstream, well metered, points to the individual bulk separator units or production platforms or the wells themselves. Indeed, it is possible to obtain a consistent, real-time reconciled view of the current production rates across these larger production networks. This allows more accurate surveillance of production from the wells, early detection of measurement issues and quicker responses to system upsets. Various common blockers to real time network wide production flow surveillance are addressed, including noisy meters, storage tanks, on-off pumps and hard-to-measure multiphase flows from the wells. The work reported may be seen as a "top-down" approach that complements the existing metering systems, integrating the data to "make the best of" all available metering and instrumentation. An example shows how better metering and instrumentation, virtual metering and real time data analysis are combined to detect and correct significant discrepancies.Raw ultrasonic flow meter signal in black, filtered signal is in red, reconciled filtered signal is in blue.

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Smart Fields—Making the Most of our Assets

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Intelligent wells and Smart Fields concept have recently been applied in some assets Shell as a solution to increase production, reduce deferment and increase recovery. Smart Field can however only be fully utilized if the three main elements fully integrate, technology, process and resources. However Smart Fields is not only about automation. It is about making available the three key ingredients needed to efficiently operate any piece of equipment: reliable performance data, an integrated suite of tools to turn these data to information and operational advisories and a cadre of appropriately skilled professionals that use the information to make the right decisions. Introduction All smart projects strive towards the implementation of actions on, or changes in the asset to be constantly measured and evaluated to support better decision-making. This constant flow of real time data also serves to calibrate the subsurface and production system models that are critical to EP asset management. Evaluation of the business impact of Smart Fields concepts and technologies has demonstrated value in several areas:8% Ultimate recovery increase (5% gas and 10% oil);10% Increased production;Reduced development risk and uncertainty;Other important benefits include improved HSE. Ultimately Shell is aiming for Smart Fields to contribute to bottom line benefits of some $350 mln per year. Benefits vary with the character of the asset or type of project. In selected deepwater fields the value of a smart well can be a combination of better recovery and avoidance of re-entry costs. Smart Fields Concept The Smart Fields concepts grew out of the thinking that guided the development and success of Smart Wells. Figure 1 illustrates the essence of the Smart Field vision. Value is created through execution of the ‘value loop’, repeating the cycle of measuring, modeling, decision-making and controlling to get the maximum amount of hydrocarbons out of the reservoirs in the most cost- effective way. The concept of ‘Smartness’ is not just about introducing new technology, but focuses on inventive ways of using and integrating existing technologies. Smart Fields now use downhole wireless communication, advanced modeling software, remote sensing and control devices and telemetry to transmit the huge amount of data gathered. For example Production Universe, Shell proprietary software, is capable of continuously monitoring well production behavior and fine-tuning large dynamic production systems in real time. Production Universe has proven that it can instantaneously identify problems in a well, increase production and improve well test frequency. It is self-learning system, updating the calibration models using well test and real-time data as they are generated. Shell is currently running 12 asset programmes in all regions of the world. Beyond technology, introduction of Smart Fields also requires a dramatic shift in work processes and people.

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Integration of People, Process and Technology for Right-Time Production Management and Optimisation in Brunei Shell Petroleum

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Technologies for oil and gas production: Present and future

Technologies for oil and gas production: Present and future

Asset-Wide Reconciled Production Monitoring—A Key Enabler to Successful Real-Time Field Management

Smart Fields—Making the Most of our Assets

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