Digital oilfield
Join TWA Editorial Board member Md Imtiaz as he interviews ONGC’s Western Offshore Asset Executive Director Ravi Shankar.
Experts at SPE’s Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition say that despite AI’s great potential, it’s important to be realistic about AI’s capabilities and to remember that successful projects solve specific business problems.
This article provides a mirror between the past and the present of well intervention technologies, including R&D to advance to downhole robots and autonomous intervention methods.
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Acquiring data from an abandoned subsea well has been done before, but never quite like this. -
Wearable computers are turning heads in the oil and gas industry and appear to be on a trajectory for widespread adoption.
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Researchers at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, are building replica core samples using 3D printers and installing sensors inside them as they go. Their goal is to directly monitor pore-scale flow behavior from the inside of these so-called “smart rocks.”
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Case studies from around the world prove that big rewards await companies that optimize the artificial lift systems keeping their mature fields alive. The success stories involve a mix of monitoring, automation, and performance tracking.
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It has been an impressive comeback for a technology that once stood on the brink of failure. The upstream oil and gas industry has largely resolved crippling technical challenges that shortened the life of fiber-optic cables in downhole applications and is now working on a big encore.
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Industry has developed smart completions, smart wells, and smart fields. The next frontier is real-time reservoir management (RTRM) using all of the data from smart installations, as well as artificial intelligence.
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