Remote Monitoring and Production Optimisation in Shell

Berg, F; Goh, Keat-Choon; Donkelaar, Edwin van; Parchewsky, Robert

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“…It is the red curve that the optimizer simulates to and select the optimum one, so it is imporant that these curves are well calibrated with what happens in the field. 11 The implementation follows a phased approach, where the initial and most important step is to ensure the ructure. Then virtual metering models are created, and models that define and process response given the variation of important manipulated variables.…”

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Architecture and Implementation of an Optimization Decision Support System

2013

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TX 75083-3836, U.S.A., fax +1-972-952-9435 AbstractThis paper describes the implementation of an optimization advisory system by Sarawak Shell Bhd. on the integrated gas production system in Sarawak, to help monitor and optimize in real-time the more than 100 wells on 30+ facilities of the system, governed by different Production Sharing Contracts. We highlight how multiple disciplines are part of the solution, how the solution has been embedded to provide real-time advisory to planners and operators, and the challenges faced.

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“…With increased computing capabilities, increased attention is also given to non-CAPEX-intensive ways to provide additional, smaller scale improvements to the production and performance of an asset [11].…”

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Architecture and Implementation of an Optimization Decision Support System

2013

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Managing Fields Using Intelligent Surveillance, Production Optimisation and Collaboration

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In Shell, asset professionals use advanced technologies and processes for field management and optimising production performance. Real time monitoring of wells and compressors has become the norm, delivering higher uptime and increased production. Asset teams use visual information on hundreds of wells and their facilities using a web-based portal. The wells and facilities with events or deviations, i.e. exceptions, are highlighted, enabling the staff to focus on fixing the critical wells and facilities. The information is brought together in Collaborative Work Environments with video connection to streamline the communication between field and office and speed up decision making. Shell has implemented these capabilities in a number of assets around the world, for example in Oman, Russia, Brunei, UK and Gulf of Mexico. The people side is a large part of the attention, during the implementation and for sustainability of the solutions. Awareness sessions, training, local ownership, feedback sessions, coaching and regular reviews are part of the embedding activities. The paper describes the capabilities and the benefits, and illustrates this with a field case from Salym in Russia. This includes the approach to change management and learning from both the project and the embedding phase. The benefits include HSE improvements (less travel exposure), increased production and reduced operating cost.

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Intelligent Energy: A Strategic Inflection Point

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2014

SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

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As defined by Andrew Grove, strategic inflection points (SIPs) represent what happens to a business when a major change occurs in its competitive environment (Grove 1999) or when major market changes significantly impact business fundamentals. Oil and gas case studies have documented new ways of working and a more than tenfold improvement to individual productivity, demonstrating that new, more effective ways of operating oil and gas assets are both possible and practical. This evidence suggests that oil and gas production has experienced an SIP. Throughout the last few years globally, nearly 400 workflows representing more than 50 digital oilfield automation projects have been implemented successfully. Many have focused on improving efficiency and all have gone far beyond SCADA implementation. These projects encompass nearly every asset type, demonstrating that intelligent or digital energy (I/DE) solutions are not restricted to a single operating environment. Many papers have been published on this topic at SPE conferences. Examples cited by Barbarino 2011, Dutra 2010, Moisés 2008, Sankaran 2011, Al-Jasmi 2013, Vignati 2013 and Van den Berg 2010 provide descriptions of representative projects. All of these projects experienced significant engineering capacity gains. This implies that when companies respond to the SIP, engineers and operators no longer must devote the majority of their time to routine, low-value tasks. Instead, they can concentrate on activities that produce meaningful performance improvements and business value. In other words, the resulting expansion of effective engineering capacity, the maximum amount of high value work that an engineer is capable of completing in a given period, can change the way oil and gas companies operate (Holland and Crompton 2014). Although specific work processes are prioritized differently amongst various companies and assets, the underlying I/DE principles of operational excellence, efficiency and automation on which solutions are based remain constant. The application of these principles is what makes business transformation possible (Lochmann 2012). Presently, significantly higher levels of production performance are achievable within the oil and gas industry. Companies that choose to fully implement I/DE principles are likely to follow the steep upward performance trend predicted in the SIP model, where employees focus on such business imperatives as increasing production, reducing cost, and managing risk, rather than routine, mandatory, low-value assignments. The consequences of a strategic inflection point within production are similar to those encountered in exploration 25 to 30 years ago when the introduction of information technology made the routine application of 3D seismic interpretation a reality and brought profound business changes to the upstream geoscience sector.

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Remote Monitoring and Production Optimisation in Shell

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Architecture and Implementation of an Optimization Decision Support System

Architecture and Implementation of an Optimization Decision Support System

Managing Fields Using Intelligent Surveillance, Production Optimisation and Collaboration

Intelligent Energy: A Strategic Inflection Point

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