Digital Oilfield: Review of Real-time Data-flow Architecture for Upstream Oil and Gas Rigs (original) (raw)

SPE International Conference and Exhibition on Formation Damage Control

Abstract

Advances in horizontal drilling and completion techniques have proliferated onshore development of unconventional shale fields. These wells can span hundreds of miles across a field for a single operator. Live remote monitoring and automation of operations is ideal but rarely cost-effective. Upstream oil and gas operations face many challenges measuring and sending data from remote well sites. Sensors must operate in remote areas, challenging terrain, and inhospitable environments, making very difficult to implement a wireless data flow collection and transmission. Additionally, data integration and consolidation between many devices, software packages, file sizes, and file types, compounds the challenges for analyzing the data for potential improvements in operational efficiencies. Autonomous remote measurement, transmission, and control of oilfield sensors continuously pursued, but rarely fully implemented. The fast production decline of unconventional shales makes high-cost telem...

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