oil and gas

There is a lot of buzz nowadays about “Digital Twins”, and every Digitalisation Director out there is thinking they need to have a Digital Twin of their assets. It makes sense: If you have a digital representation of your assets; you can simulate, test scenarios, plan operations and visualise data within the context afforded by the twin, without having to visit or “be present” in the real asset, especially if these assets are remote.

Production Well Testing is an essential part of managing an Oil & Gas field if the field has more than one well and production measurement resources are limited, as is generally the case.

I’m really excited about the long term partnership we have recently signed with Wintershall Dea for a number of reasons not least because it’s a great team and we have a lot of fun working together!

We have all been there… it’s another downturn! There is pressure from management to demonstrate that our mature oil field is profitable.

We need to take action to maximise free cash flow to ensure the profitability of our operation and that means maximising production, minimising water and sand, while making sure well integrity is preserved. On top of that we also have to deal with foaming, scaling or emulsions, while optimising the use of expensive chemicals.

“It’s so cool, I can actually access live data and monitor my systems from home, on my Mac!”

We’ve all been there right, the project seemed simple to start with but once we got into it, it started getting complicated and all sorts of thorns started to crop up that took way more time to solve than anyone on the project governance board would believe.