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PRODML Business Overview
Ron Cramer
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PRODML Introduction
• PRODML - Multi-vendor Data Exchange Format To Support Digital Oilfields
• Scope, Deliverables
• Who is building PRODML?• What are you going to learn in this session?
• Business case for PRODML• Additional clarity about scope, data, and use cases• How will operators and vendors conduct business
different as a result of PRODML?• How you can participate
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GatheringSeparation & Distribution
Injection (Water, Steam, CO2)
Water Handling
GasTreating Facilities
OilTreatingFacilities
GasExport
Facilities
OilExport
Facilities
Reservoir Management:
Gas & OilContract
Deliverability
The Production Domain
Initial Scope
•From bottom of the well to initial separation
•Decisions we can effect in a day
PRODML Producing Asset Scope
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Data Processing / monitoring and reporting software
Application Databases
Fields instruments
AP 3AP 2
real time apps
AP 1 AP xAP 4 AP 5
DCS and real time
applications
DCS historian
Historian
Future Scope
Initial scope
Office Domain
Process ControlDomain
External datatransfer
PRODML IT Scope
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Operators• BP
• Chevron
• ExxonMobil
• Shell
• Statoil
Standards• POSC
Vendors• Halliburton
• Invensys
• OSIsoft
• PETEX
• Schlumberger
• Sense Intellifield
• TietoEnator
• Weatherford
Who is building PRODML?
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E&P Data Problem – How can PRODML Help?
• Real time data rich, information poor• Exxon, BP, Shell, Chevron, Statoil have
millions of electronic instruments • Generating terabytes of data every day • Fields are becoming more and more
electronic• How can PRODML help turn this data
into useful information?
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What is this data?
Now• ESD• F&G• Process
- Reservoir- Well - Surface- Pipeline
• Devices- End elements,
DTS- RTU/PLC- SCADA/DCS
Future
Sensor technology will enable the capture of continuous streams of data from every part of the physical environment
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Disintegrated applications and models?
• Abnormal Situation Management• Production Allocation - Energy Components• Optimization Applications – Case Lift• Maintenance Management - SAP • Reservoir Simulations - MBAL • Well Simulations - Prosper • Pipe Line Simulations - Pipesim• Process Simulations - Romeo
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What is this thing called Optimization?
• Optimization - a word often used, but rarely understood• Often mentioned but rarely achieved• If achieved rarely sustained• One definition – Improving the bottom line by timely,
effective and sustained use of sufficient, good production information
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Gold in them thar data?
• Use data to enable continuous optimization- Artificial Lift Optimization- Continuous estimate of well/reservoir oil, gas, water
flows- Safeguard integrity- Abnormal situation management- Right information to right people, at right time, in right
context, in right workspace to serve right work process- Enable remote operations and real-time process control
• Examples follow
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GasLift OptimizationApplication
SCADA orHistorian
2 Phase FlowModel
Real time dataTo and from wells
Real time dataTo and from SCADA
Optimal Set PointsFrom model
Real time dataTo model
Gaslift Optimization
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ESPOptimizationApplication
SCADA orHistorian
2 Phase FlowModel
Real time dataTo and from wells
Real time dataTo and from SCADA
Optimal dataFrom model
Real time dataTo model
ESP Optimization
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Water InjectionOptimizationApplication
SCADA orHistorian
ReservoirModel
Real time dataTo and from wells
Real time dataTo and from SCADA
Optimal dataFrom model
Real time dataTo model
Water Injection Optimization
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Technical Integrity Problem
•WWho’s watching the unmanned wells and facilities ‘round the clock?
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Technical integrity most important
• North Sea one week before Piper Alpha- Explosion in gas compression
module- SCADA system retrieved data,
cause found - Incident could have been
prevented
• Other incidents- Longford- Texas City Refinery raffinate
splitter- Flow assurance – hydrates, leaks - Production facilities get more
fragile as they age!
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Potential Enabled Business Benefits
• Improved technical integrity• Improved safety• Increased production• Reduced OPEX
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PRODML Technical Architecture• Service Oriented Architecture• Applications can act both as client and
server• Standardised services expressed in
WSDL• Interoperability using SOAP protocol and
XML documents
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WellFlo or Prosper
ArchestraWeb service
request
PI historian
Web service data-server interface
Response(wellId, time,THP,CHP,Qlift)
4b
models
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3 Determine well type
RequestMeasuredData(wellId, time, THP,CHP,Qlift)
4a
4 Get operational conditions
Response(wellId, time,oil, water, gas, co2)
1b
Response(wellId, time,oil, water, gas, co2)2b
RequestSimulatedData(wellId, time, oil, water, gas, co2)
2 Get simulated data
2a
5 Simulate well performance
5
6 Assess results
6
1 Get actual data
RequestMeasuredData(wellId, time, oil, water, gas, co2)
1a
Web service interface for WellFlo or Prosper
Web service request
Web service request
Web service request
Advisor
Web service interface
7 Pass alarm
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PRODML Example
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Applications doing optimization•Abnormal Situations
•Hydrocarbon Accounting
• Maintenance Management
• Reservoir Simulations
• Well Simulations
• Pipe Line Simulations
• Process Simulations
Real Time Data
•ESD
•F&G
•Process
–Reservoir
–Well
–Surface
–Export
–Pipeline
Data in (input)
Data out (set points orrecommendations)
Data Across
The PRODML Bridge
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Wrap-up
• End goals- Commercial applications (not a stack of paper)- Change the software landscape in upstream
operations
• Pilot applications underway in Shell, BP, Statoil and Chevron
• Completion target is SOON – September• How can you be involved?
- www.prodml.org- Strike up a conversation with the PRODML members
in this room (buy them a beer or two or three?)