Selecting the best wellhead automation solution

摘要

Easy-to-use wellsite systems help operators maximize productivity. The concept has many names: digital oil field, smart field, field of the future, digital energy, intelligent oil field. These all refer to the idea of using integrated, sophisticated information and communications technologies to extract maximum value from oil and gas E&P assets. In our everyday lives we have become accustomed to using technology to save time and money, improve performance, and access more and better information from which we make better decisions. Yet on many oil and gas pads, where profits are at stake, we have yet to fully adopt the modern conveniences that technology affords. IBM estimates that a single well generates enough data to fill 200 DVDs daily, but translating that data into meaningful, decision-driving knowledge remains elusive. Some larger players or early adopters are working to build these fields of the future. But there are technologies within reach now that can deliver significant advantages without extravagant costs, even for the smallest producers.