Efficient Use Of High-Frequency Data Through Production Data Management System Implementation

摘要

The McCully Field (New Brunswick, Canada) is highly instrumented and generates a massive quantity of high-frequency data stored in a data historian. Data time range and frequency of interest had to be manually retrieved through spreadsheet macros for analysis, plotting, and gas allocation. As the production history grew, the amount of data generated was overwhelming and unconsolidated, making the task of manual data handling and visualization both difficult and time consuming. The implementation of a production data management system resulted in a fully automated, end-to-end workflow that acquires five-minute data from the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system into the operating database; performs accurate allocation of gas, condensate and water volumes; as well as creates and distributes daily production summaries to a custom email list in a matter of minutes. The implementation of an automated approach was driven by five main objectives: automate production data acquisition optimize field production through real-time well surveillance increase data processing speed (reduce time spent on data handling, preparation, cleansing and reporting) take advantage of existing high-frequency database improve communications regarding well performance between office and field operations After a successful implementation, data acquisition time has been reduced from a manual 30 minutes to an automated 5 minutes each day. Daily production reports, instead of only being accessible through the server, are now automatically emailed to a distribution list within the company. Real-time well surveillance is now possible from the main office and not only through the SCADA system in the field, which provides the engineering group with a better understanding of individual well performance and also allows any production disruptions to be identified early and resolved efficiently. Finally, the consolidated database is now integrated with engineering analysis tools for further use of information, which ultimately increases the effectiveness of the technical team.