Whether continuous or periodic, surveillance of production and associated processes and assets is necessary for optimal management and recovery of deepwater reserves. The combination of open architecture, real-time capabilities, and secure connectivity delivers information when it's needed—in time to make decisions for evolving conditions.
Digital Oil Field
A custom approach to production optimization links technologies, asset models, data, and workflows to improve the quality and timeliness of decisions regarding changes in asset management: reservoirs, wells, and processing systems.
Optimizing production in deepwater environments requires a systematic process. Advanced services and technologies play key roles in ensuring the best possible long-term production plan.
Fluid Front Monitoring
Monitoring changes in pressure, fractures, and fluid movement over time improves understanding of the production environment. Services including geophysics and logging technologies enable analysis of water-injection sweep efficiency and identification of bypassed pay in granular detail.
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Advanced survey design, acquisition, processing, and inversion provide a better understanding of the reservoir as it changes over time.
Geomechanics Modeling Software
Reservoir geomechanics play a significant role in production, so understanding changes in the rock that result from production is critical to long-term strategies. Data from monitoring changes in wellbore stability and overburden are used to evolve production strategies throughout the life of the well.
The logistical challenges of deepwater operations require sophisticated completions systems that can monitor and control changes in the wellbore environment. Advanced technologies enable these remote functions through secure wellsite connectivity. Custom completion workflows that combine data from downhole sensors with the capability for zonal flow control enhance production and reservoir management.
In deepwater developments, subsea surveillance data provide information for the decisions that enhance efficiency, increase productivity, and extend operational life. Schlumberger capabilities include both discrete and distributed measurements of temperature, pressure, strain, vibration, shape, flow, and fluid properties. And our field-proven fiber-optic-enabled communications and power hubs seamlessly integrate multiple subsurface and subsea monitoring and control devices with an open architecture.
Production management techniques identify reservoir or wellbore construction problems that otherwise could lead to underperformance and also provide information for decisions on remedial operations.
Monitoring ESP performance can prevent premature failures and extend the pump run life. The system's real-time diagnosis of well performance allows adjustment of pump parameters to optimize operation for changing production conditions.
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