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2012 Conference Programme
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Programme - Technology Innovation Day16th January2012
A better way - Huawei's Smart Oilfield Solution
- Digital Oil - improving the efficiency of the entire oil industry, thereby mitigating current shortage in oil supply
- Building an integrated data system for exploration and development
- Integrating the data and modern communication techniques to truly realize information-based operation
- Huawei's Digital Oil Network Solution - an evolving intelligent, safe, and controllable integrated platform based on IP technology
Facilitating Adoption of Active Production-enhancing Subsea Technologies
- Overview of relevant technologies and their evolution
- Typical application scenarios for deriving benefits
- Overcoming reluctance to take advantage
GET SMART, GO OPTICAL - EXPLOITING THE UNIQUE BENEFITS OF OPTICAL FIBRE SENSING TECHNOLOGY FOR PRODUCTION OPTIMISATION AND SUBSEA ASSET MONITORING
- Introducing fibre Bragg grating technology and its key advantages for extreme oil and gas applications
- Case study: the development and oilfield deployment of a multi-point downhole pressure & temperature monitoring system
- Case study: the development of a multi-measured condition monitoring system for a subsea twin-screw pump and motor
- Case study: an integrated optical sensing system for flexible riser fatigue monitoring and wire break detection
- Looking ahead: downhole and subsea optical infrastructures for production optimisation and asset condition monitoring
Using real-time data for optimization
- Enhancing visibility to operations through integrated day-to-day monitoring capabilities for assets
- Allowing engineers to focus on higher-value opportunities and enabling operators to prioritize daily routines
- Two case examples on artificial lift optimization illustrate how these capabilities provide an advanced application platform for addressing operating challenges
Paul Verey
EMEA Lead, Real-Time Data Management, Energy, Natural Resources & Utilities
Wipro Technologies
- Challanges in exploring deepwater & new blocks
- Enhancing oil production from mature fields
- Improving oil production through effective application of EOR
- Advantages & economics of EOR over deepwater
- Is future oil production moving towards CO2 - EOR?
Mature fields deserve more - Massive optimization to increase production and reserves
- Mature fields are often under-estimated
- New simulation based on production data can be fast
- Massive optimization engines unveil best development plans
- Case study - Three years of implementation and success
Siemens subsea power - Enabling wider adoption of subsea processing
- Addressing power distribution to remote facilities to exploit these reserves
- Electric vs. hydraulic systems
- The challenge - how to supply power to locations further and further away from the power hub on the surface
- The solution - an industrial, heavy duty, high-reliability power grid directly on the sea bed
In-Line Inspection of deepwater Multi-Diameter pipelines
- In-Line Inspection (ILI) of pipelines - more complex and more sophisticated
- Specializing in the processing of the data acquired during inspection runs
- ILI specialists - taking over more and more responsibility for the management of pipeline safety and operating efficiency
- The increasing use of specialized inspection tools, such as Multi-Diameter tools
- The most challenging applications for such Multi-Diameter ILI tools can be found in the inspection of deep water offshore pipelines
HIGH VALUE DECISIONS FOR WELL OPEX OPTIMIZATION USING WELL RELIABILITY DATA AND RISK ASSESSMENTS
- The case for high quality well equipment performance data – Learning from your equipment failures
- Understanding your completion – What’s in your well
- Creating a collaborative environment - Building best practices
- The multi-variant analysis options - Deciding when to spend OPEX versus CAPEX
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Programme - Day One17th January2012
Chairperson's welcome address
With its third tax hike in 10 years, the UK is becoming one of the more unstable investment climates for operators. In this session we will try to identify the unintended consequences of this tax increase on operations in the North Sea as well as potential strategies to curb these
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- The UK tax increase - pushing North Sea operations to breaking point? What will be the overall impact on oil & gas investment and production in the next decade?
- Petroleum Revenue Tax - How will the increase affect mature fields and particularly the interest in and operations of marginal assets?
- Stifling the "renaissance" of investment - What will the affect be on the industry's ability to finance exploration and production? And what of the energy security implications?
- Discussing potential strategies to counter this hit and the role of continuing technology innovation in the push forward for successful and profitable exploration and production in the North Sea
- Development progress - FPSO modification and recertification
- Development drilling and completions
- Subsea engineering, facilities and equipment
MetOcean and subsea pipeline modeling and simulation
- Decision support
- MetOcean Design Basis and modeling
- Subsea pipeline integrity and leak detection
- Capacity optimization, advanced flow modeling and flow assurance
Optimising the business impact of your operation's performance and overall profitability
- Improving the performance of key resources in real time
- Operations, safety and compliance management
- Ensuring improved planning, scheduling and quality at the overall plant management level
- Building a successful, long-term future for a growing North Sea portfolio
- Focusing on operational excellence to keep all assets in the best possible condition
- Critical to success is the belief that HSSE performance is essential to the success of the business
- Prioritizing the safety of people and the protection of the environment
Maximizing Subsea Production with Condition Performance Monitoring
- Condition Performance Monitoring (CPM) or pro-active maintenance
- Synergy between CPM and on-line flow assurance systems (Virtual flow metering, pipeline management system,…)
Workflow Transformation Providing a Pragmatic Adoption Pathway to Operational Excellence - Real Time Well Test Validation: A Case Study
- Halliburton has implemented a diverse range of integrated workflow solutions ranging from single workflows to entire integrated operations systems, using a single technology platform
- With the availability of a proven workflow-centric implementation approach, interest in real time surveillance and optimization has increased tremendously
- This presentation describes in detail the results of one operator’s successful implementation of a specific workflow-based solution focused on validating well tests in real time for an offshore field
- The work demonstrates a successful implementation of an integrated production optimization solution that is easily scalable to other assets
- In an age when operators are faced with declining production rates and smaller discoveries, such solutions allow operators to do more with less and deliver maximum asset value by listening to the voice of the well
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- Prevention is better than cure - Performance based safety processes
- Planning and response tactics
- Environmental regulations and its impact on HSE principles
- The challenges of ageing installations and the business case for prolonging the life of mature assets
- Integrating ageing, decommissioning and life extension considerations into operations and maintenance philosophies
DIGITALIZING OFFSHORE ASSETS – Learning from the Aerospace and Automotive Industries to:
- Reduce accidents
- Minimize plant downtime/outage schedule
- Capital project management - Only one single version of the truth
- Globally collaborate across the supply chain
Intelligent monitoring - from sensors to decision making information
- Real-time monitoring and optimisation, turning an abundance of data into decision making information
- A variety of innovative monitoring techniques to make real-time asset diagnostics available
- Various sensor innovations to monitor your asset (acoustics, fibre, quantum dots)
- Production optimisation through better insight in and control over what is happening in real-time
New applications and technology to effectively enhance processing capabilities and production optimisation
- Subsea-to-shore potential - remote hydrocarbon transportation for any offshore location
- Facilitating the move to new areas - ultra-deepwater, remote locations and harsh environments
- The vision of the "subsea factory" - bringing topside processing capability to the seabed
Early life optimisation and tackling everyday production challenges during the exploration and development phase
- Efficiently targeting bypassed or undeveloped reserves
- Planning for production optimisation, particularly completion and lift strategies
- Well surveillance and visualization tactics
- Allowing for ongoing collaborative environments
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Programme - Day Two18th January2012
Chairperson's welcome address
- Developing fields with a view to efficient, longer-term production management
- Deploying technology to economically restore production in depleted reservoirs
- Improved reservoir energy management strategies
- Giving you a small peek into the kitchen of the largest gas producer in Europe
- Operating this fully automated gas field
- The overload of data that is available in data historians and other databases
- Developing the Wikker platform - optimising operational and maintenance routines through advanced analytics
Using innovative Multiwall pipe solutions to combine the positive characteristics of materials to create a superior product
- Corrosion in the pipeline industry
- Multiwall piping systems - Why multiwall?
- Design criteria and risk levels
- Offshore platform firewater systems
Subsea Water Treatment Comes of Age
- Improving recovery is important in our maturing industry. Seabox (formerly Well Processing) have developed their SWIT system to provide subsea seawater treatment for waterflooding
- This system increases IOR potential by achieving total flexibility in reservoir drainage strategies and enabling injection of as much treated seawater as required, where and when required, without host platform restrictions
- 15 months of full-scale subsea trials have been conducted with excellent plant reliability and water quality results - Recent work on detailed design and interfaces means SWIT is ‘ready to go’
- The technology is applicable for offshore oil fields at any stage of their production lifetime
- Developing all-encompassing strategies to provide for all phases of an assets life
- Exploration, reservoir evaluation studies and field development
- Integrating seismic data with production
- Advances in petrotechnical visualization
Outlining some effective integrity management strategies for a safe and cost effective design and operation of offshore installation
- Integrity management strategies applied within the offshore oil and gas industries
- Risk based design and operation – critical failure conditions
- Case: The next generation pipeline management tool – the SmartPipe concept
Direct electrical heating (DEH) as a flow assurance tool
Direct electrical heating is today a mature technology used 13-14 years on the Norwegian continental shelf and also a technology implemented and taken in use in West Africa recently. Wärtsilä undertakes design and supply of the complete topside power package in addition to electrical and optical protection specially developed for DEH systems.
- Reducing CAPEX and OPEX in field development, probability of pollution and handling of toxic disposals as result of traditional chemical flow assurance methods
- Increasing the efficiency on the process plant after production stops
- Enabling the profitable development of marginal fields and fields with heavy or waxy oil
Bright Water - Bringing about a step-change in the industry’s ability to improve water floods
- Maximising oil recovery from existing resources has always been desirable, now it is a major priority
- Major challenges in traditional water flooding
- Oil recovery rates - the stats and some equations for increased recovery
- Bright Water - What is it and how does it work?
Production surveillance and reservoir optimisation
- Early detection and diagnostics of production problems and quick generation of production trends
- Field operations data integration, visualization, and automation
- Integrated field information for optimal insight into production operations
Managing your non-operated mature assets proactively
- Proactive partnering - How do we create the most value?
- Fit for purpose application of technology - Managing uncertainty in mature assets
- Case study: Dynamic data review - Improving field understanding and looking for opportunities to improve production performance
- Gyda's productive past and the challenges ahead
Dunlin: Recovering the full potential in late field life
- A summary of the Dunlin asset – Platform; 30+ year production history; Fairfield acquisition; resource potential
- First 3 years – The original plan, learning and the revised plan
- Key successes – What’s worked, what’s working, what’s work in progress?
- Significant challenges – Integrity management challenges…
- The future - Unlocking additional potential
Chairman's closing remarks
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