Using 3D Virtual Models for Real-time Operations: A Practical Case Study

Stafford, Bart; Hauser, Michael A.

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Digital Twin for the Oil and Gas Industry: Overview, Research Trends, Opportunities, and Challenges

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With the emergence of industry 4.0, the oil and gas (O&G) industry is now considering a range of digital technologies to enhance productivity, efficiency, and safety of their operations while minimizing capital and operating costs, health and environment risks, and variability in the O&G project life cycles. The deployment of emerging technologies allows O&G companies to construct digital twins (DT) of their assets. Considering DT adoption, the O&G industry is still at an early stage with implementations limited to isolated and selective applications instead of industry-wide implementation, limiting the benefits from DT implementation. To gain the full potential of DT and related technological adoption, a comprehensive understanding of DT technology, the current status of O&G-related DT research activities, and the opportunities and challenges associated with the deployment of DT in the O&G industry are of paramount importance. In order to develop this understanding, this paper presents a literature review of DT within the context of the O&G industry. The paper follows a systematic approach to select articles for the literature review. First, a keywords-based publication search was performed on the scientific databases such as Elsevier, IEEE Xplore, OnePetro, Scopus, and Springer. The filtered articles were then analyzed using online text analytic software (Voyant Tools) followed by a manual review of the abstract, introduction and conclusion sections to select the most relevant articles for our study. These articles and the industrial publications cited by them were thoroughly reviewed to present a comprehensive overview of DT technology and to identify current research status, opportunities and challenges of DT deployment in the O&G industry. From this literature review, it was found that asset integrity monitoring, project planning, and life cycle management are the key application areas of digital twin in the O&G industry while cyber security, lack of standardization, and uncertainty in scope and focus are the key challenges of DT deployment in the O&G industry. When considering the geographical distribution for the DT related research in the O&G industry, the United States (US) is the leading country, followed by Norway,

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Implementing Integrated Solutions for Reservoir Management: San Joaquin Valley Case Study

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To achieve more efficient business processes by exploiting data and knowledge management, real-time systems and advanced analytical tools, most major integrated and service companies have developed, or are in the process of developing, intelligent programs also known as Digital Oil Field of the Future 3 . The i-field TM program represents Chevron's efforts to integrate people, processes, technology and information to achieve its vision of Upstream Transformation. Ultimately, this vision translates to higher-quality decision making and changes the way we operate our assets.A new multiyear i-field TM program, Integrated Reservoir Management (i-RM), was initiated in the San Joaquin Valley to enable efficient reservoir management (RM) and quality decision making for heavy oil assests operating under steamflood EOR technologies.The paper describes the journey undertaken by the project team to build a proprietary steamflood integrated reservoir management tool that answers the basic neverending engineering requirements: instant access to clean data, single source of information for everyone and seamless data-tools linkage. The ultimate benefit is not only increased time spent by engineers and earth scientists to analyze data but also consistent project design workflows and decision making processes across fields. In addition to above documented benefits, the manuscript includes operator's experience with project framing, development, deployment and user-acceptance. History of i-field program in San Joaquin ValleyChevron's San Joaquin Valley BU began implementing its first i-field solutions in 2003. Supporting field technical teams and operation groups, the early i-field projects focused on tactical tasks, often close to the wellhead and targeted production

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Programs Enable Operational Excellence in a Challenging Environment, Pushing the Limits of Large Data Transfer for Real Time Monitoring and Surveillance Operations in San Joaquin Valley

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2011

SPE Western North American Region Meeting

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Chevron's San Joaquin Valley (SJV) Business Unit (BU) is a mature, heavy oil, thermally enhanced asset consisting of large fields that have been producing for over a century. To ensure continuing technology transformation, in 2003 San Joaquin Valley started its own i-field program being among the first BUs to pursue Chevron's enterprise-wide effort in building the Digital Oil Field of the Future. From its initiation, the program has been focusing on creating solutions to manage and optimize operations and enhance recovery.

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Using 3D Virtual Models for Real-time Operations: A Practical Case Study

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Digital Twin for the Oil and Gas Industry: Overview, Research Trends, Opportunities, and Challenges

Digital Twin for the Oil and Gas Industry: Overview, Research Trends, Opportunities, and Challenges

Implementing Integrated Solutions for Reservoir Management: San Joaquin Valley Case Study

Programs Enable Operational Excellence in a Challenging Environment, Pushing the Limits of Large Data Transfer for Real Time Monitoring and Surveillance Operations in San Joaquin Valley

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