Field Surveillance: Enhanced Monitoring and Smart Alarms Produce More Oil

Managing wells produced with electrical submersible pumps (ESPs) must take into account limited pump-run life and production losses from ESP failures and shut in wells. Monitoring production and pump parameters is common, but real-time monitoring systems enable improving production conditions with rapid access to data that allows engineers to plan effective and timely remedial work. A system was field tested at an unmanned platform of a brown field with producing wells that use ESPs. The advanced information provided to the decision makers resulted in early production recovery and improved well inflow and outflow performance knowledge.

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This article, written by Technology Editor Dennis Denney, contains highlights of paper SPE 102091, “A New Approach for Field Surveillance: Enhanced Monitoring Associating Smart Alarms To Produce More Oil,” by A. Lentini and G. Fumia, Eni E&P; H. Malonga and F. Okassa, Eni Congo; and J.P. Le Cann and J. Lessi, SPE, Geoservices, prepared for the 2006 SPE Russian Oil and Gas Technical Conference and Exhibition, Moscow, 3–6 October.

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