“My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.” —John Paul Getty
Who Benefits From a Smart Field? Everyone.
Operations Supervisor
- Incorporate merged or acquired assets into production quicker
- Increase recovery rates
- Decrease lifting costs
- Increase total recoverable
Asset Manager
- Report, monitor, and control (bi-directionally) field assets virtually
- Augment staff with complimentary skills
- Asset optimization—condition versus calendar-based optimization
- Enable real-time model validation and asset development optimization
Maintenance Supervisor
- Reduce windshield time/remote turn-on/turn-off of service
- Facilities optimization— condition versus calendar-based optimization
- More efficient and effective deployment of field resources
- Reduce O&M costs of operations personnel and MRO truck roles
- Report, monitor, and control (bi-directionally) field assets virtually
- Augment staff with complimentary skills
Trading
- Improve capability to promise
- Improve capability to commit
- Improve ability to hedge positions and risk
Engineering
- Reduce the time and effort to design and install new SCADA and RTU equipment at wellheads, storage tanks, and piping infrastructure
- Improve performance in accuracy, cost, and timeliness of designs for new wellheads
- Improvements in design enabled by intelligent devices and availability of asset information
Quality Supervisor
- Reduce environmental emissions and penalties
- Reduce operating excursions, in the field, through condition-based optimization
- Improve safety and reduce occupational hazards through remote monitoring and control of field assets
IT/Administration
- Single, uniform, standardized, and consolidated network infrastructure
- TCP/IP open standards-based
- Large ecosystem of equipment providers
- Extraordinary wireless propagation minimizes required equipment, interference and cost, and maximizes reach and bandwidth
- Access to skills and expertise
- Secure, licensed, private infrastructure at national economies of scale
- Secure, reliable, low-risk approach