Rules of Thumb

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (12) ◽  
pp. 5-5
Keyword(s):  
Rules Of Thumb

Sand Free Production Success Through Proven Technology Enabler from An Untapped Heterogeneous Reservoir Zone Utilizing Gravel Pack Replacement Methodology

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Anggoro
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Erosion Resistance ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Screen Design ◽  
Sand Control ◽  
Rules Of Thumb ◽  
Production Success ◽  
Control Technologies ◽  
Gravel Pack

The Belida field is an offshore field located in Block B of Indonesia’s South Natuna Sea. This field was discovered in 1989. Both oil and gas bearing reservoirs are present in the Belida field in the Miocene Arang, Udang and Intra Barat Formations. Within the middle Arang Formation, there are three gas pay zones informally referred to as Beta, Gamma and Delta. These sand zones are thin pay zones which need to be carefully planned and economically exploited. Due to the nature of the reservoir, sand production is a challenge and requires downhole sand control. A key challenge for sand control equipment in this application is erosion resistance without inhibiting productivity as high gas rates and associated high flow velocity is expected from the zones, which is known to have caused sand control failure. To help achieve a cost-effective and easily planned deployment solution to produce hydrocarbons, a rigless deployment is the preferred method to deploy downhole sand control. PSD analysis from the reservoir zone suggested from ‘Industry Rules of Thumb’ a conventional gravel pack deployment as a means of downhole sand control. However, based on review of newer globally proven sand control technologies since adoption of these ‘Industry Rules of Thumb’, a cost-effective solution could be considered and implemented utilizing Ceramic Sand Screen technology. This paper will discuss the successful application at Block B, Natuna Sea using Ceramic Sand Screens as a rigless intervention solution addressing the erosion / hot spotting challenges in these high rate production zones. The erosion resistance of the Ceramic Sand Screen design allows a deployment methodology directly adjacent to the perforated interval to resist against premature loss of sand control. The robust ceramic screen design gave the flexibility required to develop a cost-effective lower completion deployment methodology both from a challenging make up in the well due to a restrictive lubricator length to the tractor conveyancing in the well to land out at the desired set depth covering the producing zone. The paper will overview the success of multi-service and product supply co-operation adopting technology enablers to challenge ‘Industry Rules of Thumb’ replaced by rigless reasoning as a standard well intervention downhole sand control solution where Medco E&P Natuna Ltd. (Medco E&P) faces sand control challenges in their high deviation, sidetracked well stock. The paper draws final attention to the hydrocarbon performance gain resulting due to the ability for choke free production to allow drawing down the well at higher rates than initially expected from this zone.

Evidentiary Reliability, Valuation Standards, and Rules of Thumb

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. DiGabriele
Keyword(s):  
Rules Of Thumb

scholarly journals Do traders learn to select efficient market institutions?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Alós-Ferrer ◽  
Johannes Buckenmaier ◽  
Georg Kirchsteiger
Keyword(s):  
Returns To Scale ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Switching Behavior ◽  
Double Auction ◽  
Trading Behavior ◽  
Market Institutions ◽  
Market Institution ◽  
Simple Rules ◽  
Rules Of Thumb ◽  
Constant Returns To Scale

AbstractWhen alternative market institutions are available, traders have to decide both where and how much to trade. We conducted an experiment where traders decided first whether to trade in an (efficient) double-auction institution or in a posted-offers one (favoring sellers), and second how much to trade. When sellers face decreasing returns to scale (increasing production costs), fast coordination on the double-auction occurs, with the posted-offers institution becoming inactive. In contrast, under constant returns to scale, both institutions remain active and coordination is slower. The reason is that sellers trade off higher efficiency in a market with dwindling profits for biased-up profits in a market with vanishing customers. Hence, efficiency alone might not be sufficient to guarantee coordination on a single market institution if the surplus distribution is asymmetric. Trading behavior approaches equilibrium predictions (market clearing) within each institution, but switching behavior across institutions is explained by simple rules of thumb, with buyers chasing low prices and sellers considering both prices and trader ratios.

scholarly journals Life-cycle welfare losses from rules-of-thumb asset allocation

2021 ◽  
Vol 198 ◽  
pp. 109655
Author(s):  
Fabio C. Bagliano ◽  
Carolina Fugazza ◽  
Giovanna Nicodano
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Asset Allocation ◽  
Welfare Losses ◽  
Rules Of Thumb

scholarly journals A Feature Set for Cytometry on Digitized Microscopic Images

2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karsten Rodenacker ◽  
Ewert Bengtsson
Keyword(s):  
Image Analysis ◽  
Feature Extraction ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Biomedical Image Analysis ◽  
Feature Sets ◽  
Biomedical Image ◽  
Rules Of Thumb ◽  
Quantitative Cytology ◽  
The Eu

Feature extraction is a crucial step in most cytometry studies. In this paper a systematic approach to feature extraction is presented. The feature sets that have been developed and used for quantitative cytology at the Laboratory for Biomedical Image Analysis of the GSF as well as at the Center for Image Analysis in Uppsala over the last 25 years are described and illustrated. The feature sets described are divided into morphometric, densitometric, textural and structural features. The latter group is used to describe the eu‐ and hetero‐chromatin in a way complementing the textural methods. The main goal of the paper is to bring attention to the need of a common and well defined description of features used in cyto‐ and histometrical studies. The application of the sets of features is shown in an overview of projects from different fields. Finally some rules of thumb for the design of studies in this field are proposed. Colour figures can be viewed onhttp://www.esacp.org/acp/2003/25‐1/rodenacker.htm.

Towards self-predicting systems: What if you could ask ‘what-if’?

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
ENO THERESKA ◽  
DUSHYANTH NARAYANAN ◽  
GREGORY R. GANGER
Keyword(s):  
System Design ◽  
Large System ◽  
System Management ◽  
System Behavior ◽  
Search Problems ◽  
Interactive Exploration ◽  
Design Changes ◽  
Rules Of Thumb ◽  
System Changes ◽  
Management Problems

Today, management and tuning questions are approached using if… then… rules of thumb. This reactive approach requires expertise regarding system behavior, making it difficult to deal with unforeseen uses of a system’s resources and leading to system unpredictability and large system management overheads. We propose a What…if… approach that allows interactive exploration of the effects of system changes, thus converting complex tuning problem into simpler search problems. Through two concrete management problems, automating system upgrades and deciding on service migrations, we identify system design changes that enable a system to answer What…if… questions about itself.

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