Issue: November 2024
SPECIAL FOCUS: ADVANCES IN PRODUCTION
InjectRT™, a novel intelligent chemical treatment optimization service from Baker Hughes, uses cutting-edge machine learning techniques to automatically calculate and adjust chemical injection rates in near real-time. This technology minimizes corrosion and scaling, extends the run life of ESPs, and increases production.
Advanced functionalities and high-resolution data unlock exponential increases in efficiency and optimization through total-view well intelligence, real-time diagnostics, remote monitoring and full-range automated control—all incorporated within a plug-and-play platform scaled to the economic profile of a marginal plunger lift well.
A combination of a turbo-expander and a liquid jet ejector can be used to extract energy from multiphase streams during production.
Features
As generative A.I. surges in interest, with ever-expanding applications, industry discussions focus on the best ways to take advantage of the technology. While the possible applications present a tantalizing prospect for companies, adopting the technology will require companies to carefully consider existing infrastructure and data management.
Oil and gas operations can use IoT and cellular technology to remotely monitor and optimize reservoir, well and facility performance—all while minimizing the need to physically send workers into potentially hazardous environments.
Casing patch systems offer significant downtime reductions to operators in the face of unique well integrity problems, such as casing leaks or corrosion.
Columns
After four years of often irrational, counterproductive federal policymaking by the Biden/Harris administration, America’s oil and gas industry celebrated the election of Donald J. Trump (Fig. 1) to a second term in office in the Nov. 5 elections.
Continuing with the story from prior columns, we’re looking at U.S. drilling activity to see how drilling performance has changed over the last few years and what it might say about how we can advance drilling even further.
