Petroleum E&P business processes are described. The suite of computer applications used in the technical workflows are introduced. A suitable summary for all readers
Hydrocarbon E&P processes applications and computer uses
1. Hydrocarbon
Exploration & Production
Domain Information Systems
Scope of Document : Overview of E&P Technical IS.
Nature : Presentation
Security : Public
Author : G Srikanth
Date and Version : 20 October 2010 v1.0
Reliance Industries Ltd. Exploration & Production Business. India. 17-September-2008
2. Structure
1. Exploration & Production Paradigms
2. Business Processes
3. Technical Information Systems
– Traits of E&P Technical computation
– Usage Mechanism
4. Technical Solutions in use
Reliance Industries Ltd. Exploration & Production Business. India. 17-September-2008
3. Hydrocarbon Life-Cycle
Living Matter
CO2
Maturation
Effusion
Discovery Accumulation
Reliance Industries Ltd. Exploration & Production Business. India. 17-September-2008
4. Paradigms in Hydrocarbon Life-Cycle
1. Time
- HC life-cycle works in Geological Time
2. Space
– HC are generated, migrate and accumulate
deep inside earth
3. Size
– While the Micro-organisms that created HC
are tiny, the pore-spaces where it is stored
are tiny – The scale of processes and
accumulations are Huge.
Reliance Industries Ltd. Exploration & Production Business. India. 17-September-2008
5. Paradigms in Hydrocarbon Life-Cycle
1. Uniqueness of every HC pool
2. Non-repeatability of events in discovery and
production
3. Beyond experimental confirmation
4. Non-linear and unknown mathematical systems
These manifest as two dimensions
UNCERTAINTY
RISK
Reliance Industries Ltd. Exploration & Production Business. India. 17-September-2008
6. Sciences in Petroleum Geoscience
1. Mathematics Fluid dynamics, Digital Signal
Processing, Fourier analysis
2. Physics Rock physics (petrophysics), Geophysics –
Seismic , Instrumentation
3. Geology Search, Discovery and Characterization
4. Geophysics Seismic, Gravity and Magnetic surveys
5. Chemistry Oil & Gas Composition, Properties, Drilling
Mud chemistry, Rock chemistry
6. Computer Fractals, ANN, Fuzzy Sets, Advanced
Graphics
Reliance Industries Ltd. Exploration & Production Business. India. 17-September-2008
7. Technology in Petroleum E&P
1. Computer Array Processors, HPC, Virtual Reality, Petabyte
storage
2. Chemical Processing, Extraction, Plant design, Reservoir
engineering
3. Civil Drill site preparation, plant sites, Field layout, Structural
design of platforms
4. Electronics & Communication Design surveillance and
monitoring equipment, Communication, Instrumentation
5. Geodetic Surveying and Positioning
6. Environment Harazad studies, Spill management, Disposal
7. Mechanical Drilling, Heavy Equipment, Plants
8. Petroleum Well-Design, Flow-Networks, Production Optimization
Reliance Industries Ltd. Exploration & Production Business. India. 17-September-2008
8. Petroleum E&P Business Overview
Business Vision
E&D is essentially Centered
$ $ around managing information
– Quality
~10,000CrIRS – Completeness
– Auditability
Information Significant value accretion
Execution Valuation E&D is essentially obtaining
Auditing “reliable” information on O&G
Exploration &
Technology occurrence and recoverability
Development
Reliance Industries Ltd. Exploration & Production Business. India. 17-September-2008
9. E&P Processes
Reliance Industries Ltd. Exploration & Production Business. India. 17-September-2008
10. 1. Acquire
Acquire Explore Appraise Develop Deplete
E&P Asset Life Cycle Abandon
1. Strategy
2. Intelligence to Locate Opportunities
– Compendium Services
3. Evaluate Opportunities
– Prospect Evaluation – Data
rooms, Analysis
– Risk Analysis
1. Tellus
4. Pursue Opportunities
– Economic Evaluation 2. Istore
– Bidding
– Legal & Contracts 3. IHS energy
5. Handover to Exploration
– Data Migration & Integration
Reliance Industries Ltd. Exploration & Production Business. India. 17-September-2008
11. 2. Explore
Acquire Explore Appraise Develop Deplete
E&P Asset Life Cycle Abandon
1. Data Gathering
2. Prospect Maturation
3. Resource Assurance
4. Optimize and Rank Portfolio
5. Prepare for Drilling
6. Post-Well Analysis
7. Handover to Appraisal
Reliance Industries Ltd. Exploration & Production Business. India. 17-September-2008
12. 2.1a Explore – Data Gathering
Acquire Explore Appraise Develop Deplete
E&P Asset Life Cycle Abandon
Reliance Industries Ltd. Exploration & Production Business. India. 17-September-2008
13. 2.1b Explore – Data Processing
Engineering E&P
1. Design – AutoCad 1. Design – Forward Model
2. Simulation – FEM, CFD 2. Simulation – CFD, DSP, MLM,
Stochastic, Dynamic
3. Screening – LP, NLP
3. Screening – Visual, Heuristic
4. Presentation – Autocad, 3D
4. Presentation – Maps, 3D
5. Evaluation – Formal
5. Evaluation – Intuitive
Business DP
Largely Numerical
1. Largely Transactional
Record-level interdependency
2. Records are Independent
One or Many Programs –
3. One Program – Algorithm Each with Many Algorithms
Multiple Users/Usage Few Users
4. ERP – Integrates data widely Data processing is discrete
Reliance Industries Ltd. Exploration & Production Business. India. 17-September-2008
14. 2.2 Exploration – Prospect Maturation
Acquire Explore Appraise Develop Deplete
1. Basin Analysis E&P Asset Life Cycle Abandon
– BasinMOD
2. Play Analysis
– Regional GM
– Sequence Strat
– Seismic
3. Prospect Ident.
– Seismic F/I models
– Visual assimilation
4. Ranking & Optimization
5. Resource Assurance
6. Prepare for Drilling
– Pore-Pressure
– Well Design & Plan
Reliance Industries Ltd. Exploration & Production Business. India. 17-September-2008
15. 3. Appraisal
Acquire Explore Appraise Develop Deplete
E&P Asset Life Cycle Abandon
1. Appraisal Plan
2. Data Gathering
3. Develop Asset Model
4. Scenarios
5. Drill & Validate
6. Evaluate Economic Viability
7. Optimization
8. Conceptual Development Plan
9. Hand-over to Development
Reliance Industries Ltd. Exploration & Production Business. India. 17-September-2008
16. 3.3 Appraisal – Develop Asset Model &
Scenarios
Acquire Explore Appraise Develop Deplete
E&P Asset Life Cycle Abandon
1. Development Plan
– Design
– EPC
2. Well Completion Engineering
– Drill & Complete wells
3. Reservoir Capacity & Production Plan
– Testing
– Production Profiles
– Production Scenarios
4. Startup
5. Ramp-up
6. Steady-State Depletion
Reliance Industries Ltd. Exploration & Production Business. India. 17-September-2008
17. 3.3 Appraisal – Develop Asset Model &
Scenarios
Acquire Explore Appraise Develop Deplete
1. Subsurface Deplete Guidance E&P Asset Life Cycle Abandon
– Allocation
– Reservoir Management
– Characterization
– Feed-back Planning
2. Production Management
– Production Opt
– O&M
– Production accounting
3. HC storage & transportation
4. HC accounting
– Nomination –to- Cash
5. Demand Management
– Forecasting
Reliance Industries Ltd. Exploration & Production Business. India. 17-September-2008
18. E&P Asset Life cycle – IS features
Acquire Explore Appraise Develop Deplete
E&P Asset Life Cycle Abandon
1. Data Acquisition {Plan, Execute, Collect}
2. Data Processing {Basic, Advanced}
3. Data Interpretation {Numerical, Graphic, Visual}
4. Data Enhancement {Single/Multi variable models}
5. Data Consolidation
6. Data Management
7. Results Management
Reliance Industries Ltd. Exploration & Production Business. India. 17-September-2008
19. Typical Data Processing objectives
Reliance Industries Ltd. Exploration & Production Business. India. 17-September-2008
22. E&P Asset Life cycle – IS features
Acquire Explore Develop Produce Abandon
E&P Asset Life Cycle
1. High Compute Capability
2. Diverse Application Portfolio for every function
3. High Data & Information Costs
4. Large data volumes
5. Complex Integration of wide range of data classes
6. Information Uncertainty needing multiple analysis and processes
7. World-wide operations and standard service requirements
8. Remote and hazardous work areas
9. Auditors, Certifiers, Collaborators and Regulators
10. High business Impact
IT Components in E&P technical areas are unique to the business
Reliance Industries Ltd. Exploration & Production Business. India. 17-September-2008
23. E&P – Compute Capability Characteristics
Systems
1. Teraflop processing power needed in many areas of work
2. Very high memory capacity > 64GB needed in many applications
3. Imaging Systems – very high end graphics
4. Huge Data sizes
Applications
1. Specialized and very proprietary
2. Bought-in – Seldom developed
3. Multiplicity of Applications for same/similar functionality
4. Proprietary data structures and models
5. Long cycle times for expertise
Reliance Industries Ltd. Exploration & Production Business. India. 17-September-2008
24. Technical Data flow
Seismic data Drilling data
PDB
Studies are carried out in Standard
Project DataBases. These
Data sets
are organised by block and
interpretation Project
Production
Seismic
Approved Data
Apps Data sets
Geological
Apps
Petrophys. Manual
Apps
Reservoir input Master data
Integrated Data
Apps Data groups include:
CDB
Externally • Seismic
Technical applications Prepared Corporate data • Geology
data • Petrophysics
• Reservoir
A Corporate DataBase • Production
Tape Library-2 Pbytes • Drilling
is the repository of all Business • Culture
approved technical data Management • Assets
• Documents
Reliance Industries Ltd. Exploration & Production Business. India. 17-September-2008
25. E&P - Information Characteristics
1. High Information Costs
2. Complex data models – Structure and Semantics
3. Analytical complexity
4. Information Uncertainty
5. Large Risk
Reliance Industries Ltd. Exploration & Production Business. India. 17-September-2008
26. Is Time an Illusion?
The concepts of time and change may
emerge from a universe that, at root, is
utterly static
By Craig Callender June, 2010 {Scientific American}
Time is an especially hot topic right now in physics. The search for a unified
theory is forcing physicists to reexamine very basic assumptions, and few
things are more basic than time.
Some physicists argue that there is no such thing as time. Others think time
ought to be promoted rather than demoted. In between these two positions is
the fascinating idea that time exists but is not fundamental. A static world
somehow gives rise to the time we perceive.
Philosophers have debated such ideas since before the time of Socrates, but
physicists are now making them concrete. According to one, time may arise
from the way that the universe is partitioned; what we perceive as time reflects
the relations among its pieces
Reliance Industries Ltd. Exploration & Production Business. India. 17-September-2008
27. The Charm of Successful E&P
• Extensive Diversity for Thought
• Opportunity to be thinking beyond ordinary
Reliance Industries Ltd. Exploration & Production Business. India. 17-September-2008