Production Engineering Experience With the First I-Field Implementation in Saudi Aramco at Haradh-III: Transforming Vision to Reality

Al-Arnaout, Ibrahim H.; Al-Zahrani, Rashad

doi:10.2118/112216-ms

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“…• Minimized well interventions enhanced work efficiency and enabled timely response to production deviations (AL-Arnaout et al, 2008). I-Field Capabilities in Haradh III resulted in an annual four folds reduction in wireline jobs to collect SBHP data.…”

Section: • Evaluation Of Early Inter-reservoir Communication Was Fullmentioning

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Overview of Saudi Aramco's Intelligent Field Program

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Recent advancement in well technologies, communications and field instrumentation has made it possible to achieve total asset awareness and optimize operations over the field's development lifecycle. This is achieved by leveraging fields' real-time data for continuous monitoring and right-time response throughout the development processes. Right-time response has two components: Fast Interventions being done today as a product of an intra-process optimization, and Strategic Interventions based on more detailed modeling, discussed in the next steps section. The results of this integration have led to optimized drilling operations and well placements, increased production rates, and improved reservoir management and production operations. Real-time integration in the business processes, in turn, has introduced further opportunities for higher hydrocarbon recoveries and lower operating costs and capital expenditures.

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Section: • Evaluation Of Early Inter-reservoir Communication Was Fullmentioning

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Overview of Saudi Aramco's Intelligent Field Program

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“…Over the past few years Saudi Aramco has gained considerable experience in addressing the Surveillance level in various fields, some of which were selected to pioneer the I-Field effort. Good progress has been reported in integration and optimization as well, and work continues in these areas (Al-Malki et al 2008;Al-Khamis et al 2009;Al-Arnaout et al 2008;Mubarak 2009). …”

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Intelligent Field Centers (IFCs): Integrating People, Processes and Technologies to Optimally Manage Giant Fields

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Al-Dhubaib²,

Jama³

et al. 2010

Proceedings of SPE Intelligent Energy Conference and Exhibition

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As part of the implementation of its strategic goals, Saudi Aramco effectively leverages intelligent field (I-Field) processes and technologies. The I-Field initiative (development architecture) includes four levels: Surveillance, Integration, Optimization and Innovation, with a vision for full implementation and coverage of all producing fields within the medium term. The accomplishment of this ambitious goal requires a well coordinated approach company-wide to truly benefit and extract value from the I-Field approach and practices.The value proposition of the I-Field program includes increasing production potential, recovery factor and efficiency with the most safe and environmentally sound practices. One facet of achieving this corporate objective is through enhanced reservoir management strategies and integrated multidisciplinary collaborations. One of the contributing initial elements is the creation of Intelligent Field Centers (IFCs) that will enable and facilitate collaborative decision making around reservoir management processes and tasks.The first established IFCs had emphasis on reservoir management tasks with a longer vision and a wider objective of optimizing the company's assets and operations in achieving its expanding goals. This first group of IFCs is foreseen as nuclei for a growing contemporary practice in managing the company's assets.In order to come up with the optimum design of these centers and to ensure that they meet the objectives set out by the company, a rigorous, multistage methodology was utilized that started by a comprehensive assessment study. The results of this assessment revealed several high priority workflows being performed by the reservoir management groups, which, once implemented in the IFCs, should deliver improvements in efficiency and, therefore, impacting production and ultimately increasing recoverable reserves.The assessment and design results showed critical cross-functional and I-Field requirements, such as collaboration, change management, integration, interoperability and openness, automation and knowledge capture. This paper will detail the methodology followed in assessing the requirements and designing the use of the IFCs.

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“…1. Saudi Aramco has recently embarked on the development of several fields, including the AFK fields with an aim to transform the elderly and remote fields into state-of-the-art intelligent fields (I-Fields) equipped with proper handling facilities for oil, water and gas [6][7][8][9] . The new AFK project mainly consisted of a twofold plan.…”

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Revamping Old Fields Using I-Field Technologies

2009

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With the ever growing demand for energy in the world, the need for timely and accurate data from oil fields to allow proper decision making becomes very crucial. Recent evolution in oil field technologies has made a great revolution in the oil and gas industry all over the world, leading to the emerging development of intelligent fields (I-Fields) 1-4 . The integration of I-Field technologies, whether downhole or at surface, coupled with communication networks along with sophisticated simulation and monitoring applications has led to significant advancements not only in monitoring and control capabilities, but rather also in decision making processes 5 . Therefore, the overall system upgrade has resulted in an enhancement of the field surveillance, which will lead to higher levels of oil production in these assets as a consequence of Saudi Aramco's development strategy for these fields.

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Production Engineering Experience With the First I-Field Implementation in Saudi Aramco at Haradh-III: Transforming Vision to Reality

Cited by 8 publications

References 3 publications

Overview of Saudi Aramco's Intelligent Field Program

Overview of Saudi Aramco's Intelligent Field Program

Intelligent Field Centers (IFCs): Integrating People, Processes and Technologies to Optimally Manage Giant Fields

Revamping Old Fields Using I-Field Technologies

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