Enterprise SCADA Solution Optimizes Producing Assets, Pipelines And Processing Plants

摘要

Digital oil field technology is creating both exciting opportunities and significant challenges for oil and gas producers. The advent of advanced technologies to monitor in real time the operation of production equipment, pipeline networks, and treating and processing facilities gives operators access to more data than ever. These datasets enable intelligent asset management by guiding daily operations and decision making to optimize activities, increase production, and lower costs. However, efforts to make the most informed field management decisions are hampered by outdated or insufficient data management systems and legacy supervisory control and data acquisition platforms. This was the case for Denbury Resources Inc., which as part of its carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery strategy, has made numerous acquisitions of producing properties with a variety of legacy automation systems. The solution for Denbury is implementing an enterprise approach to SCADA that supports distributed assets across multiple vertical sectors in its operating areas, including a growing number of CO_2 EOR assets.