Clamp-on to African production surveillance

摘要

IN A PERFECT world, production and reservoir engineers would have unlimited access to accurate production data on every field with flow measurement details down to each individual well, no matter how remote or limited the infrastructure. This wealth of data would keep production reporting on track, facilitate a fuller understanding of the behaviour of each well over time, improve inputs to reservoir models, and ultimately enable better decisions to improve overall field production. The unfortunate reality is that the world most of us operate in is not as straightforward. Time constraints, testing budgets, loss of production, logistical obstacles, security issues, and ongoing operational considerations are just a few of the influences that force us to make production testing compromises, ultimately resulting in our acceptance of what is essentially an inadequate volume of production surveillance data.