Roxar Production Management

Flow Assurance and Production Management

www.roxarsoftware.com
What does it do?

 All the thermohydraulics you need

 Optimize production
 Drainage strategy
 Flow assurance

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What do you get?

Optimize Full Mass-Energy balance over field lifetime SAVES YOU

System MONEY by not over-engineering the field
Get the facilities you need, when you need them
Design

Optimized set-points in order to maximize process

Increase throughput and therefore cash-flow
Throughput Some operators indicate several percent improvement
through proper management

Efficient, single-platform analysis quickly delivers concept-

Increase dependent income profiles
Productivity • Our experience shows for a typical field you can do more
with less staff, or let your same team handle more fields

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One Interface – Many Functionalities – Life of Field
FIELD DEVELOPMENT
• Concept evaluation
Performance • Drainage strategy
• Flow assurance
- Well/flow line
- Gas lift effect
- Set points
External Transient
ENGINEERING
- Reservoir - Cool-down
• M/E balances
- Process - Heat-up
Roxar • Design
- db’s - Blow-down
• Adverse
Production
Calibration Management Life of Field
- Multiple paras - Optimization PRODUCTION
- Automatic - M/E balances • Optimization
- Manual Flow / Control - R.S. interface • Debottlenecking
- Virtual metering • What-if
- PID control • Tie-backs
• Well deliverability
• Forecasting

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 Production Management
Production Control
Set points
New set points
External
User Interface
- db’s Data distibution Flow data
- Reservoir Interact/Visualize

Virtual Metering
Flow data
Test data In situ phase flows

Sensor data Item data Sensor data Status data

Item data
Test data Model tuning Set points
Status data

Model data Item data Sensor data Transient

Interface to external
Model data What-if

Model data Life of field

Set well priorities
Increase throughput Decision
Better operational measures making team

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Green Oil Field - Problem

 Large number of development scenarios

 Concept dependent income
 Gas lift needs
 External constraints
 Design parameters
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 System analysis

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Green Oil Field - Solution

 Coupled reservoir/network
model.
 Proxy reservoir models
Income profiles
 Coupled production/gas
lift service network model
 Optimize gas lift use
 M/E balances for design
basis
 Detailed model for
operational conditions

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Geriatric Oil Field - Problem
 ESP lifted wells with surface pressure boosting
 Constrained by suction pressures and flows
 Worn pumps with off spec delivery
 Current ops: Arbitrary well shut-dows to rebuild pressure

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Geriatric Oil Field - Solution
 Coupled reservoir/network simulation
– Match model predictions to oberved system behaviour
– Tune pump response to actual performance
 Predict required well shutdowns from FBHP and minimum suction
pressures
 Planned well shut-downs based on predictions for more efficient
operations
 Enabling more stable production and reduced well down time

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Mature Gas Field - Problem
 Subsea field with heterogeneous pressures
 Future need for pressure boosting
 Continuous hydrate inhibition

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Mature Gas Field - Solution
 Coupled reservoir/network simulation
– Match model predictions to oberved system behaviour
– Interfaced production and MEG service network
 Predict future boosting needs

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 Geriatric Gas Field - Problem

 Model field production

– No active well items
– Flow control in pipelines
 Buffer production
– Producer  Injector
 Minimize energy expenditure
 Validate using historical data

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Geriatric Gas Field - Solution
 Coupled reservoir/network simulation
– Validating predictions versus measureable properties
 Solve network using group targets - avoid well closures.
 Automated well conversion trigged by user criteria.
 Predictive model for operational conditions / item set-points.

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Summary

 Single powerful platform for thermohydraulics

– Increases productivity
 Life of field mass-energy balances
– Better data for better decisions
 Act smartly on available field data
– Increase throughput for increased cashflow

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