Simulating Operating Production efficiencies for Deep Water Field Developments

摘要

Computer simulations of oil & gas field operations are extremely helpful in planning field developments in deep water. They may be used to identify optimum or robust strategies, and to assess trade-offs among alternative scenarios. Through series of simulations, different development scenarios can be compared, and the sensitivity to diverse parameters investigated and quantified. The SLOOP simulator was developed in a Joint Industry project to model the complete operation fo offshore oil and gas facilities, including weather and other sources of downtime, well maintenance & subsea interventions, processing, storage and off-loading. SLOOP (Simulation of Long-Term Offshore Oil & Gas Production) has been applied to a range of deep water production scenarios to assess different concepts, and to quantify sensitivities to a wide range of influences. These include well performance and equipment reliability, weather severity and forecast accuracy, intervention resource availability, and thresholds for various operations.