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The Digital Oil Field (DOF) has been exhaustively discussed for production enhancement and optimization, but there has been little focus on its use in other areas. This paper describes an integrated approach by multiple business units on how data management and visualization is been applied to enhance decision making, improve cost control, and increase asset integrity in Murphy’s onshore and offshore developments. Data visualization and the automation of data reporting play an important role in achieving the goal of reducing OPEX and optimizing field operation activities. As more data becomes available, a tool for maximizing the benefits of how data is presented and used in day-to-day decision making is required. This begins with reducing man-hours associated with data acquisition, report-generation, analytical tool development and key performance indicator (KPI) tracking. A data management and visualization tool is currently in-use to enhance offshore operations in chemical management, cost-tracking, and production forecasting, as well as unconventional onshore operations for asset integrity monitoring systems. Since implementation, the program minimizes duplicate work by field personnel, as well as ensures they are engaged and involved in OPEX reduction and increasing field uptime. Effective visualization of data streamlines decision-making on chemical performance, cost-benefit analysis, and effective treatment. It also maximizes the amount of data available for use and interpretation. In remote areas onshore field data is entered via mobile devices, providing a fast, simple, and effective tool for managing onshore maintenance campaigns, pigging programs, cathodic protection, & vessel inspections. New workflows provide real-time data and metrics to help make on the fly ‘fit-for-purpose’ decisions. Utilization of apps and dashboards has drastically changed the performance of the asset integrity & maintenance programs and significantly reduced OPEX across onshore and offshore assets, and improves reliability across pipeline and gathering systems by identifying high-risk areas and reducing system upsets. This shift has moved focus from effective data collection to using the existing data in an efficient and cost-effective way in helping the operations engineering team and field operations in data analysis, KPI-tracking and achieving production and OPEX targets. It also provides indication of existing data gaps and identifies where more data collection would add value to business decisions.
The Digital Oil Field (DOF) has been exhaustively discussed for production enhancement and optimization, but there has been little focus on its use in other areas. This paper describes an integrated approach by multiple business units on how data management and visualization is been applied to enhance decision making, improve cost control, and increase asset integrity in Murphy’s onshore and offshore developments. Data visualization and the automation of data reporting play an important role in achieving the goal of reducing OPEX and optimizing field operation activities. As more data becomes available, a tool for maximizing the benefits of how data is presented and used in day-to-day decision making is required. This begins with reducing man-hours associated with data acquisition, report-generation, analytical tool development and key performance indicator (KPI) tracking. A data management and visualization tool is currently in-use to enhance offshore operations in chemical management, cost-tracking, and production forecasting, as well as unconventional onshore operations for asset integrity monitoring systems. Since implementation, the program minimizes duplicate work by field personnel, as well as ensures they are engaged and involved in OPEX reduction and increasing field uptime. Effective visualization of data streamlines decision-making on chemical performance, cost-benefit analysis, and effective treatment. It also maximizes the amount of data available for use and interpretation. In remote areas onshore field data is entered via mobile devices, providing a fast, simple, and effective tool for managing onshore maintenance campaigns, pigging programs, cathodic protection, & vessel inspections. New workflows provide real-time data and metrics to help make on the fly ‘fit-for-purpose’ decisions. Utilization of apps and dashboards has drastically changed the performance of the asset integrity & maintenance programs and significantly reduced OPEX across onshore and offshore assets, and improves reliability across pipeline and gathering systems by identifying high-risk areas and reducing system upsets. This shift has moved focus from effective data collection to using the existing data in an efficient and cost-effective way in helping the operations engineering team and field operations in data analysis, KPI-tracking and achieving production and OPEX targets. It also provides indication of existing data gaps and identifies where more data collection would add value to business decisions.
Efficiently managing the performance of sizeable onshore assets can be challenging, particularly in the absence of well-defined processes and technology to help organize people and data. This often leads to suboptimal processes, ineffective use of resources and time, and missed opportunities. Significant variations in producing reservoirs, artificial lift types, storage and processing facility capacity, data quality and availability, and even manpower can create varied operations and operational issues between areas (Farid et al. 2007). To help mitigate these challenges, an independent oil company and a service company collaborated on an integrated operations center (IOC) analytics dashboard called the operations management dashboard (OMD). The independent oil company produces and operates in US onshore assets, which necessitates personnel working under complex operating conditions, using multiple applications, and processing data that are fragmented across these applications. The OMD integrated 17 different data sources from various areas, implemented multiple engineering logic calculations, and created intelligent real-time alarms to identify specific operational issues and facilitate asset management. This integration was performed on a single platform. The OMD leveraged solution capabilities range from displaying information from multiple real-time and historical data sources available across the field to streamlining business processes. This helps enhance field staff communications and support the company's management by exception philosophy, focusing on cases that deviate from the norm. The OMD was deployed in one of the independent operator's onshore assets that included 1,000+ tank batteries, 7,000+ wells, and 20+ fields. The OMD automated processes helped reduce errors, resulting in less downtime and associated operational expenditure (OPEX). The OMD also standardized data analysis by allowing access to both historical and real-time data in a single workflow. Additional benefits were improved tank logistics resulting from tank level monitoring and timely and effective communication resulting from displayed work orders and comments between field and office personnel. Overall, the OMD facilitated access to consistent and in-context information, which was necessary for accurate and timely decision-making. The dashboard's easy configuration, alerting functionality with the capability of defining meaningful and complex real-time alarms, and automated processes combined with easy-to-analyze visualizations proved valuable and resulted in enhanced decision-making. By defining alarms and automating processes, the OMD can help optimize injection gas rates during gas lift operations, identify mechanical lift issues, schedule field maintenance or inspections, and recognize production anomalies. The OMD can help quickly identify operational issues and production optimization opportunities. Additionally, it is expected to reduce downtime by 25% and decrease OPEX by 25%.
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