Highest Reliability Provides World Class Benchmark for Permanent Downhole Monitoring Installation and Data Delivery in Malaysia

摘要

Reservoir pressure and temperature measurements have become the cornerstone of reservoir and productionmanagement. These measurements provide improved capabilities for understanding of oil and gasreservoir characteristics, which enables greater reservoir management for increased production andimproved ultimate recovery.’The reliability and accuracy of permanent downhole pressure and temperature technologies is thereforeof the highest priority when planning field developments, be it green fields, brown fields, marginal fieldsor EOR projects. A long term Permanent Downhole Gauge and Fiber Optic monitoring contract wasawarded in August 2010 with the intent to provide reservoir monitoring with the highest reliability andaccuracy that was available. Since the award of the contract, the world-class milestone of 50 installationswas achieved in August 2013. This milestone has been enhanced by the fact that to date, an amazingsuccess rate of 100% has been realized.This success story has been achieved by a combination of many factors, from the strong validationprocess for gauge selection and subsequent choice of world class technologies with the highest survivabilityin the oil industry, close collaboration between the project and operations teams of the oil companyand service provider, project management expertise, detailed preparation and maintenance, to thephilosophy of providing real time data delivery to the end user.This paper highlights the technologies installed and processes charted over the last three years toachieve this remarkable success story.