Unlocking Potential Thru Sand Management Insights in Digital Fields

Sand production is creating sand erosion and deposition issues at multiples levels such as tubing, choke and pipeline, therefore causing multiples undesirable events such as unplanned production deferment, integrity and sand handling capacity issues in each field. Traditionally, each field has common practices to address sand issues. However, this creates non-standard procedures and prevents sharing best practices around all the assets. Managing sand production and related risks are keys where a multi-disciplined team (from subsurface to the surface) is required to ensure safe operations in more than 45 offshore fields. To efficiently manage such a challenge at scale, there was a need to develop a single common digital platform for all. The digital platform provides unified user experience and proactive actionable insights to all assets with characteristics such as; Scalable to all fields Solution architecture to allow fast implementation Same company-wide user interface/user experience platform To achieve this ambition, it was necessary to move away from traditional waterfall project development to agile approach, automating ingestion of data from multiple sources, integrating the in-house development tool as engine based on equations develop specifically for Malaysia fields. The solution was deployed to all fields during 2019. This had created additional benefits such as Transparency on the data: Anyone can access to any field Visible Metrics: All fields sharing the same metrics, also improving and developing adjustments according to each situation Regulatory Compliance: Helping to keep up to date with sand sampling There are already fields reporting examples of value realization in the form of Cost Avoidance and/or reduction in unplanned deferment due to improved Sand Management handling from the solution. It is expected that the value realization will increase by taking actions of protecting the field of any Loss of Primary Containment (LOPC), saving time of deciding as Process Cycle Efficiency (PCE). The solution can potentially be utilized for annual field forecasting for work program and budget cycle.