It’s About Time
Sanjaya Sood
May, 2006
Key Industry Drivers
The Emergence of Three Main
Trends
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Introduction of new enabling
technology, bringing huge
improvements in reservoir
productivity
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Increasing demand for real-time
information, modeling,
visualization and decision
making tools
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Periods of consolidation and
downsizing, resulting in the
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industry expertise having aged
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significantly
The Intelligent Oil Field
Field Operations
Field Assets
Corporate Management
External Stakeholders
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Intelligent Oil Field Enablement
• Digital enablement of oilfield operations
• Time-lapse seismic, real-time drilling, real-time production
• Downhole intelligent completions technology
• Downhole valves and sensors including multiphase
meters and fiber-optic systems to track production from
pore to pipeline
• Remote control centers linked by digital networks to field
operations, management and external stakeholders
• Real-time workflows to enable core E&P processes
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Large scale data and systems integration
Where we are today
Real-Time Drilling
Features
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Real-time model-based surveillance
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Earth-driven drilling optimization
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Integrated well-planning
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Secure digital infrastructure
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Remote team collaboration
Benefits
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Improved productivity
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Better management of risk
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Improved efficiency with reduced cost
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Rotary Steerable Systems for RealTime Drilling
• Traditional directional
drilling
– Points the bit from surface
– Rotates only the bit
– Pushes and slides the drill
string
• Rotary steerable drilling
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– Sends the desired direction to
the drilling tool downhole
– Rotates the entire drilling
string
– Steers the well by configuring
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the downhole tool to orient the
bit
Real-Time Drilling – Complex Well
Trajectories
TVDSS meters
-1900
PowerDrive
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Block A
Block D
-1950
-2000
Target 4
Target 1
geoVISION Gamma Resistivity
Total E&P UK plc, Shell,
ExxonMobil, Dana Petroleum –
North Sea
Integration of rotary steerable
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system with advanced LWD for
optimum well placement
Target 2
Target 3
PowerPulse
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All four reservoir targets
achieved
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Cost reduced
Drilling efficiency improved
Production 25% more than
predicted
Real-Time Production Systems
• Digitally-enabled artificial lift
systems
• Digitally-networked, remote
surveillance and system
control equipment
• Workflow processes to
identify, diagnose and
optimize lift and well
performance
• Remote engineering experts
to analyze sand-face,
reservoir and network
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performance
Real-Time Production Monitoring
A – Pump started
B – Chemical injection
C – Pump stopped to
change leaking valve
downstream – threshold
triggering event
D – Chemical injection
E – Increasing pressure
due to damaged choke
on adjoining well
F – Routine maintenance
shut down
G – Variable speed drive
frequency increased
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Real-Time Production Pump
Monitoring
1400
Conventional ESP
Instrumented ESP
Total net gain
Oil Production B/D
1200
1000
800
600
400
200
0
Well 1
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Well 2
Well 3
Well 4
Well 5
Well 6
Identification of wells for pumpupsizing
Determination of wells for acidstimulation
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Well 7
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Well 8
Well 9 Well 10 Well 11 Well 12
Identification of excess wear
Total of 31 wells in field, 2600
bopd added
Real Time Monitoring and Delivery
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VSAT
• ''A VSAT', for Very Small Aperture Terminal, is a
2-way satellite ground station with a dish antenna
that is smaller than 3 meters, as compared to
around 10 meters for other types of satellite
dishes.
• Schlumberger Oilfield Research co-developed
the world's first VSATs with Hughes Aerospace in
1985, to provide man-portable network
connectivity for oil field drilling and exploration
units. VSAT's are still used at well sites today to
transmit real-time data back for processing.
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Challenges
• Workflows
• IT Infrastructure
• Business Model
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Workflows that Work
• Managers need a clear idea of how to gain the
benefits of implementing a real time or e-Field
project
• The choice of sensors, data, bandwidth,
applications, people, and processes must be
driven by the oil and gas production problem to
be solved
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Ready to Run
• IT infrastructure must provide
– End-to-end security
– Interaction with data in the right time
– Integration with other data and systems
– Solutions for presentation and evaluation
– Capability for collaboration
• IT infrastructure implementation must be reliable
and repeatable
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Business Models
• Centralized model
– Little control or flexibility
– Obstacle when business units do not see initial
benefits
– Simple to administer
• Decentralized model
– Totally flexible
– Business units can choose resources based on
needs
– Highly inefficient
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Business Model that Makes Sense
• Combination Approach
– Common costs reallocated to the business units
– Business units can purchase products and
services as needed
– Transitions to a pay per usage based on needs
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In Conclusion
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The industry is on the right path to
the vision
Progress has been made but it will
take time to get there
– O&G technology exists
– IT exists
– Processes exist
– Funding exists
What is missing
– Understanding the benefits for
the workflows
– Reliable, repeatable IT enablers
– Business model
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The right people, viewing the
right information, at the right time
It’s About Time
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