Optimizing oil and gas high performance compute environments with storage

First Break ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Faibish ◽  
P. Hodge
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Oil And Gas

Step Change Transformation of Legacy Rigs to Autonomous Drilling Rigs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey Ziatdinov ◽  
Titto Thomas Philip
Keyword(s):  
Capital Investment ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Human Error ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
The Past ◽  
Automation Systems ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Drilling Rigs

Abstract During the past decade, drilling automation systems have been an attractive target for a lot of operating and drilling companies. Despite progress in automation in various industries, like mining and downstream, the drilling industry has lagged far behind in the real application of autonomous technologies implementation. This can be attributed to harsh environment, high level of uncertainty in input data, and that majority of stock is legacy drilling rigs, resulting in capital intensive implementations. In the past years there have been several attempts to create fully automated rigs, that includes surface automation and drilling automation. Such solutions are very attractive, because they allow people to move out of hazardous zones and, at the same time, improve performance. However, the main deficiency of such an approach is the very high capital investment required for development of highly bespoke rigs (Slagmulder 2016). And in the current business environment, with high volatility in oil and gas prices, plus the huge negative effect of the Covid-19 crisis on the world's economic situation, it would be hard to imagine that there are a lot of companies willing to make such a risky investment. In addition to this, due to the lack of demand, the market is full of relatively new, high-performance rigs. Taking all these into account, the obvious question is whether it makes sense to invest money and time into the development of drilling automation. The answer should be yes, for three substantial reasons:Automation improves personal safety, by moving people out of danger zones;Automation improves process safety, by transferring execution from person to machine, which reduces the risk of human error;Automation improves efficiency by bringing consistency to drilling and through the use of self-learning algorithms, which allow machines to drill each successive well better than the previous. This paper will not look into surface automation, such as pipe-handling, chemical and mud handling on site. The paper is focused on the subsurface, namely on the drilling automation process, the challenges that need to be overcome to deploy a vendor agnostic system on a majority of existing rigs. A vendor agnostic system is a modification of an operator's autonomous drilling system (Rassenfoss 2011), designed to use existing rigs, BHAs, and have minimum footprint on the rigs for operational use. A vendor agnostic system will increase adoption of automated technologies and further drive improvements in operational and business performance

scholarly journals A Novel Low-Temperature Non-Corrosive Sulfate/Sulfide Scale Dissolver

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 2455
Author(s):  
Hany Gamal ◽  
Salaheldin Elkatatny ◽  
Dhafer Al Shehri ◽  
Mohamed Bahgat
Keyword(s):  
Low Temperature ◽  
Corrosion Rate ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Ethylenediaminetetraacetic Acid ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Dissolution Efficiency

The oil and gas production operations suffer from scale depositions. The scale precipitations have a damaging impact on the reservoir pores, perforations, downhole and completion equipment, pipeline network, wellhead chokes, and surface facilities. Hydrocarbon production possibly decreased because of the scale accumulation in the well tubular, leading to a well plugging, this requires wells to be shut-in in severe cases to perform a clean-out job. Therefore, scale deposition is badly affecting petroleum economics. This research aims to design a scale dissolver with low cost, non-damaging for the well equipment and has a high performance at the field operating conditions. This paper presents a novel non-corrosive dissolver for sulfate and sulfide composite scale in alkaline pH and works at low-temperature conditions. The scale samples were collected from a production platform from different locations. A complete description of the scale samples was performed as X-ray diffraction (XRD) and X-ray fluorescence (XRF). The new scale dissolver was prepared in different concentrations to examine its dissolution efficiency for the scale with time at low temperatures. The experimental design studied the solid to fluid ratio, temperature, solubility time, and dissolution efficiency in order to achieve the optimum and most economic performance of solubility in terms of high dissolution efficiency with the smallest possible amount of scale dissolver. A solubility comparison was performed with other commercial-scale-dissolvers and the corrosion rate was tested. The experimental work results demonstrated the superior performance of the new scale dissolver. The new scale dissolver showed a solubility efficiency of 91.8% at a low temperature of 45 °C and 79% at 35 °C. The new scale dissolver showed a higher solubility ratio for the scale sample than the ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) (20 wt. %), diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid (DTPA) (20 wt. %), and HCl (10 wt. %). The corrosion rate for the new non-corrosive dissolver was 0.01357 kg/m2 (0.00278 lb./ft²) which was considered a very low rate and non-damaging for the equipment. The low corrosive effect of the new dissolver will save the extra cost of adding the corrosion inhibitors and save the equipment from the damaging effect of the corrosive acids.

Synthesis and performance of a self crosslinkable acrylate copolymer with high compatibility for an oil well cement modifier

2014 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 405-413
Author(s):  
Xianru He ◽  
Qian Chen ◽  
Chunhui Feng ◽  
Liang Wang ◽  
Hailong Hou
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Ammonium Persulfate ◽  
Fluid Loss ◽  
Oil Well ◽  
Cement Slurry ◽  
Oil Well Cement ◽  
Well Cement ◽  
Loss Control

Abstract High performance cement slurry polymer modifiers are increasingly in demand in the cementing process of oil and gas. A new polymer modifier with outstanding fluid loss control and high strength and toughness was synthesized by the main monomers butyl acrylate (BA), methyl methacrylate (MMA), acrylamide (AM), the functional monomers vinyltriethoxysilane (VTS), glycidyl methacrylate (GMA) and the initiator of ammonium persulfate (APS) through emulsion polymerization. By using Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer, a laser particle analyzer, a scanning electron microscope and a differential scanning calorimeter, we studied the mechanism of fluid loss control and microstructure of polymer latex cement slurries. The experimental results showed that the copolymer could be crosslinked at 160°C and have the lowest fluid loss control, 12 ml, when the polymer content reached 5%. Acrylate latex modified by the silane coupling agent VTS had excellent performance on fluid loss control, as well as mechanical properties for oil well cement. These results have a potential significant value for the development of a new polymer cement modifier with high thermal stability and durability.

Maximizing MFL ILI Sizing Confidence and Accuracy Using High-Resolution Field Measurement Data

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Yeung ◽  
Ryan Sporns ◽  
Stuart Clouston ◽  
Grant A. Coleman ◽  
Scott Miller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Field Measurement ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Field Data ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Measurement Techniques ◽  
Measurement Data ◽  
Industry Standards ◽  
Defect Profile ◽  
Wide Range

Magnetic Flux Leakage inspection tools are generally calibrated on a series of manufactured defects. This has been shown to give good results on a wide range of defects in varying wall thicknesses, velocities and pipeline conditions. Significant improvements in sizing performance can be achieved if sizing algorithms can be optimized on high resolution field data with low uncertainty that more closely reflects the actual line specific corrosion dimensions and profiles. The effects of defect profile can be significant to the MFL signal response. In order to achieve this goal, very high resolution and accurate field measurement techniques are needed to map the combined profile of a significant number of corrosion defects. This paper discusses a process for developing high performance sizing algorithms that consistently better industry standards for MFL sizing performance in areas of high density or complex corrosion in both oil and gas pipelines through the incorporation of high resolution laser scan technology. Complex corrosion may be considered as an area wherein individual corrosions interact together such that they no longer behave as a single corrosion and the MFL response experiences a superposition of leakage signals. A review of the methodology will be discussed and the results demonstrated through case studies from both Enbridge Pipelines Inc. and TransCanada Pipelines Ltd. where high-resolution field data was used as the basis for sizing model optimization.

The historical development of the magnetic method in exploration

Geophysics ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 70 (6) ◽  
pp. 33ND-61ND ◽  
Author(s):  
M. N. Nabighian ◽  
V. J. S. Grauch ◽  
R. O. Hansen ◽  
T. R. LaFehr ◽  
Y. Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Magnetic Method ◽  
Geothermal Resources ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Weakly Magnetic ◽  
New Applications

The magnetic method, perhaps the oldest of geophysical exploration techniques, blossomed after the advent of airborne surveys in World War II. With improvements in instrumentation, navigation, and platform compensation, it is now possible to map the entire crustal section at a variety of scales, from strongly magnetic basement at regional scale to weakly magnetic sedimentary contacts at local scale. Methods of data filtering, display, and interpretation have also advanced, especially with the availability of low-cost, high-performance personal computers and color raster graphics. The magnetic method is the primary exploration tool in the search for minerals. In other arenas, the magnetic method has evolved from its sole use for mapping basement structure to include a wide range of new applications, such as locating intrasedimentary faults, defining subtle lithologic contacts, mapping salt domes in weakly magnetic sediments, and better defining targets through 3D inversion. These new applications have increased the method's utility in all realms of exploration — in the search for minerals, oil and gas, geothermal resources, and groundwater, and for a variety of other purposes such as natural hazards assessment, mapping impact structures, and engineering and environmental studies.

scholarly journals THE EFFECT OF CUTTER PATH STRATEGIES ON SURFACE ROUGHNESS WHEN MACHINING TITANIUM ALLOY

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-12
Author(s):  
Zuzana Grešová ◽  
◽  
Peter Ižol ◽  
Ildikó Maňková ◽  
Marek Vrabe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Surface Roughness ◽  
Titanium Alloy ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Machined Surface ◽  
Cutter Path ◽  
High Performance Application ◽  
Cutting Path ◽  
Cutting Strategy

The article deals with the comparison and evaluation of finishing cutter path strategies when applied to one of the difficult to cut material such as Ti-alloy. The titanium alloy has been increasingly used for high performance application for oil and gas, aerospace, energy, medical and automotive industries. The importance of milling strategies outgoing from their impact on the economic aspects of production, realized using CNC machines. A planar sample was designed for the purposes of the experiment, enabling finishing cutter path strategies for shaped surfaces. Three cutting strategies were involved and compared- spiral, constant Z and line feed. For assessment of the effect of the cutting strategies three different feed rate were used. Comparison of simulated cutter path strategies and machined surface were visually inspected as well as measured surface roughness were evaluated. The constant Z cutting path strategy was found as suitable cutting strategy from point of view of surface roughness.

scholarly journals To the experience of Shkapovo oilfield development

Georesursy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 119-122
Author(s):  
Evgeny V. Lozin
Keyword(s):  
Oil Recovery ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Construction Material ◽  
Oil Field ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Centrifugal Pumps ◽  
Oil Reserves ◽  
Large Platform ◽  
Capital Construction

The article formulates the main conclusions about the development of a large Shkapovsky oil field with an emphasis on the results of the development of the main objects – horizons DI and DIV of the terrigenous Devonian. The field was commissioned following the neighboring Tuimazinsky and Serafimovsky fields, taking into account the experience of a scientifically organized system for the development of these large platform oil fields in the Volga-Ural oil and gas region. It is shown that this experience was not taken into account much, especially in relation to the unsecured needs of oil production with capital construction, material and technical supply and social facilities. The potential of the field was realized in 18 years. Intra-contour and focal flooding, production technologies using electric centrifugal pumps (ESP), chemicalization of oil extraction processes, primary collection and transportation of products, oil, gas and water treatment technologies, etc., accelerated the development. Shkapov engineers and scientists own a number of innovations: realizing high development rates, means of preventing and eliminating salt-paraffin deposits, the introduction of double-barrel drilling, the development of high-performance ESPs, separate development of facilities, etc. At the same time, tasks were solved on eliminating ecological imbalance in the bowels and the environment, housing and public works. The current urgent problem of the field’s additional development is the activation of the production of residual oil reserves from oil and watered zones drilled with an unreasonably rare grid of wells. The final oil recovery coefficients of the Devonian objects are expected to be high, but, according to the author of the article, could reach CU 0.6.

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