Summary
Capitalizing on early successes in advanced well control and real-time
monitoring, Total Exploration and Production has engaged in a major
"digital-field" initiative. Combining both proven and leading-edge
technologies, the field-monitoring template is providing a powerful tool for
well and facilities performance monitoring and optimization. This paper
presents the concept of the WPM module, and the early results of its pilot
application whose implementation began in 2009 at the Girassol field located
offshore Angola.
The WPM module constitutes an integrated real-time monitoring solution for
subsea installations, from reservoir inflow to receiving facilities. Proposing
advanced features (e.g., a common asset model, a business orchestrator, and a
Web-based interface), the tool provides remote access to timely and quality
field data, improves communication and collaboration between offshore and
onshore, and provides support by specialists from exploration-and-production
headquarters. Functional capabilities include data validation, virtual
metering, wells and networks modeling, smart alarming, and production
optimization. Specific workflows have also been defined to sustain continuous
updating of the models to match observed field behavior.
This paper illustrates the benefits of the WPM solution in terms of improved
production and enhanced well diagnosis. It also reviews the organizational
challenges associated with such a project and discusses the key factors
ensuring successful implementation and good support from on-site teams.
WPM brings forth a new approach for the intelligent surveillance of complex
subsea-production systems. Well performance and production and reservoir teams
have gained benefit from such a tool. Pertinent information is delivered to the
right people in real time, enabling instant diagnosis and minimization of
production shortfalls. In addition, the online simulator supports the
continuous optimization of the field throughput by real-time integration of
changing well behavior or production constraints.
© 2012. Society of Petroleum Engineers
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History
- Original manuscript received:
1 October 2011
- Meeting paper published:
22 March 2010
- Revised manuscript received:
8 February 2012
- Manuscript approved:
1 June 2012
- Version of record:
13 July 2012
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