REAL TIME MONITORING AND CONTROL OF WIRELINE LOGGING OPERATI
Wireline logging operations often require real time interactions during the operations. The logging engineer along with the organization’s technical support backbone provide technical knowledge of tool physics and operations while petrophysicists, G&G specialists, and well engineers of the operating company experts have intimate knowledge of the formations, the reservoirs, and the well environments.
Technology development has been an integral part of wireline logging as downhole tools have evolved to incorporate new measurements and novel ways of acquiring and processing data, but it still largely relies on standard crews of one of more field engineers and a handful of operators. This model has remained the same for decades in contrast to technology already been deployed in drilling for instance, where a fully closed loop directional drilling system has automated the trajectory drilling service.
This paper describes a remote wireline logging solution that enables downhole wireline logging tools to be remotely controlled. The solution optimizes data transmission in order to minimize the bandwidth required for data duplication. It also automates tasks that would otherwise be manual, laborious, or time-consuming. The benefits of real time collaboration are many and include providing live technical support, improving knowledge sharing and collaboration, providing a relevant training environment to less experienced staff, as well as lowering operational costs and optimizing crew size and people on site – two particularly important drivers in a post-Covid-19 world. The combination of the current depressed economic environment, the cyclic nature of the oil and gas industry, and its skewed demographics will aggravate the irreversible loss of experience and corporate knowledge that has been at work for years-in operators and service companies alike so knowledge management solutions leveraging real time monitoring and control are called for - now more than ever before.
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Author(s):
Marcos D. Garcia and Juan P. Garcia, Crystal Li
Company(s):
Shell International E&P Inc.; Baker Hughes
Year:
2020