Summary
To achieve more-efficient business processes by exploiting data and
knowledge management, real-time systems, and advanced analytical tools, most
major integrated and service companies have developed, or are in the process of
developing, intelligent programs also known as "Digital Oil Field of the
Future" (CERA 2002). The i-fieldTM program represents Chevron's
efforts to integrate people, processes, technology, and information to achieve
its vision of upstream transformation. Ultimately, this vision translates to
higher-quality decision making and changes the method in which assets are
operated.
A new multiyear i-fieldTM program, Integrated Reservoir
Management (i-RM), was initiated in the San Joaquin Valley (SJV) to enable
efficient reservoir management (RM) and quality decision making for heavy-oil
assests operating under steamflood enhanced-oil-recovery (EOR)
technologies.
The paper describes the journey undertaken by the project team to build a
proprietary steamflood-integrated RM tool that answers the basic never-ending
engineering requirements: instant access to clean data, single source of
information for everyone, and seamless data-tools linkage. The ultimate benefit
is not only increased time spent by engineers and earth scientists to analyze
data, but also consistent project design workflows and decision-making
processes across fields. In addition to the previously described documented
benefits, the manuscript includes the operator's experience with project
framing, development, deployment, and user acceptance.
© 2012. Society of Petroleum Engineers
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History
- Original manuscript received:
19 July 2011
- Meeting paper published:
19 April 2011
- Manuscript approved:
7 December 2011
- Published online:
26 January 2012
- Version of record:
8 February 2012
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