Digital oilfield

Digital Twin Approach Integrates Existing Facilities, Proposed Developments

This paper described the use of digital twin technology to identify design modifications required at an onshore site and visualize proposed offshore assets for a Trinidad and Tobago development.

360° photos of equipment within the platform.
Fig. 1—360° photos of equipment within the platform.

The digital twin (DT) approach provides a virtual and digital representation of existing assets, spanning everything from onshore facilities to offshore platforms, pipelines, and subsurface data, all in one location. It has been used for the operator’s flagship Manatee project to develop three stacked reservoirs offshore Trinidad and Tobago. The DT was used to identify design modifications required at this onshore site and visualize proposed offshore assets. It integrates existing facilities and new design data, including site survey, subsurface, and well data to optimize well planning.

Introduction

The Manatee field lies within the East Coast Marine Area of Trinidad in approximately 92 m of water and consists of stacked reservoirs of clean and thin-bed unconsolidated sands.

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