Intelligent Fields: Industry's Frontier Opportunities

摘要

Digital Field capability is at the leading edge of the Oil & Gas industry. This capability is a result of continual advancements and integration of well technologies, communications, process control, and E&P computing technologies. Digital Field capabilities enable the integration and use of surface and subsurface real time data, to optimize upstream assets and profitability. This capability has been given different names, such as Intelligent Fields, Smart fields, Digital Oil Field of the Future, integrated field and Integrated Operations. In Saudi Aramco, this capability is being leveraged through four major projects: "Real-time Drilling Operations" for optimal drilling; "Geosteering" for optimal well placement within the reservoir; "Intelligent Fields" for optimizing reservoir management, production and production operations; and "Event Solutions" for optimal field development. Throughout this paper, the term "Digital Field" will be used as the nomenclature for this capability. This paper provides an introduction and background on Digital Field capabilities and presents Saudi Aramco's experience in leveraging them in key upstream business processes. The paper also highlights areas of applications, challenges, lessons learned, values attained and the opportunities that this brings to the industry as experienced through Saudi Aramco implementations.