Automation system case study of coalbed-methane development

摘要

Can an independent producer fulfill a vision to deveop and produce a coalbed methane gas field that covers two hundred square miles in a remote desert plateau in the western United States? This paper will answer that question as well as provide answers to other pertinent questions, such as, "What tools would be available to the operator to eficiently and safely produce the wells?" And, "Would the tools allow for future expansion and/or allow new technologies to be incorporated into the system cost-effectively?"