A Guided Workflows Approach to Oil Field Management

摘要

It is evident that Digital Oil Field Projects have succeeded in making reservoir, production and operations data more widely available. However, it is also evident that many operators still fail to realise the full value of these data. Too often, oil field professionals are overloaded with information with the direct result that the organisation fails to respond appropriately within the available window of opportunity. The authors believe that in order to realize sustainable improvements in operational efficiencies and in decision-making for production optimisation and reservoir management, the Industry now needs to find ways to ensure that the new streams of information and knowledge that result from Digital Oilfield Projects can flow freely throughout the organization. IT solutions need to do more to screen, classify and rank data, to present the most significant information to the most appropriate person as and when it is needed, to marshal the right analysis tools and configure them optimally for the task at hand, and to route critical actions and results across the organization in the manner most appropriate to the prevailing circumstances.