Typical Applications
Key Production Challenges
The key production challenges with oil and gas fields are
summarized below.
The edpm solution is designed and streamlined to support, advise, manage, control and optimize these challenges. For each particular field, SPT Group makes a field-specific solution based upon operator requirements by utilizing the standardized and object-oriented edpm solution.
On the right hand side, edpm solutions for specific typical fields are summarized.
Gas and Liquid Management
Liquid Management
- Start-up and ramp-up
- Slugging
- Pigging
Gas Management
- Inventory
- Blowdown
- Gas quality
Optimization
- Well allocation
- Chemical injection
- Gas lift
Thermal Management
- Hydrates
- Inhibitors
- Dead-oiling
- Hot-oiling
- Wax
- Cool-down
- Warm-up
Integrity Management
- Corrosion
- Leakage
- Blockage
- Erosion
- Sand
- Instrument failure
Standardized edpm
Field Applications
edpm - The Online
Flow Assurance Solution
The OLGA Engineering Simulator is being used extensively during various design stages of a field development, where the key goal is to enlarge and optimize the operating envelope.
When the field is on-stream, the edpm solution monitors and controls the operation, ensuring that it is kept within acceptable limits:
- Optimizing production
- Avoiding critical disruptions
- Supporting remote operations
- Maximizing return on investment
Example of operating envelope:
