Integrated Digital Automation System for Production Optimization in the North San Juan Basin

An integrated digital automation system was used to optimize tubing-flow-control and plunger-lift installations in the north San Juan basin. The intelligent closed-looped automation system increased gas production, improved equipment reliability, and provided an efficient and inexpensive deliquification method with an almost exclusively remote-controlled operation.

View a Synopsis of SPE 106952 as published in JPT.

This article, written by Technology Editor Dennis Denney, contains highlights of paper SPE 106952, “Successful Application of Integrated Digital Automation System for Production Optimization in the North San Juan Basin,” by Peter O. Oyewole, SPE, Michael D. Scull, and Mark S. Downey, BP plc and John B. Herring, SPE, Pure Automation, prepared for the 2007 SPE Digital Energy Conference and Exhibition, Houston, 11–12 April.

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