Company Profile
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ProductionQuest provide permanent monitoring solutions to oil and gas
operators. Burullus Gas Company is a joint venture between British Gas,
Edison Gas and the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation and operates
the gas fields which are part West Delta Deep Marine Concession near Alexandria, Egypt.
Situation
Burullus
required a data management system to provide data from the onshore
facility near Alexandria to their petroleum engineers in Cairo. Data was
being recorded by the Master Control Systems in Alexandria and manually
copied by CD and delivered to the Cairo office.
Solution
Measuresoft, a
Microsoft Certified Partner, designed and implemented a Data Management
System based around Extrak. Extrak was used because its powerful
facility for multiple independent date loggers. The system collects
production data for 24 wells from 5 different fields from a Yokogawa
Centum DCS system via OPC and stores production data in an Microsoft SQL
Server 2000 database. The data is replicated to a server Cairo where it
is interrogated daily to produce a summary of the days production.
Production is summarized according to the choke rates which were
operational on each well for each day of production. The summary
calculations are specified in an Excel spreadsheet for extensibility and
flexibility. The system also collects high frequency well test data in
the same manner. Facilities to import the legacy Excel production and
well test data file into the database were also provided. A full suite
of trends which are accessible via Internet Explorer is provided within
the Burullus corporate network for review of the data.
Benefits
The system
provides automatic replication without administrator intervention.
Replication if
fully tolerant of any short or long duration break in the communications
links between the field facility and the headquarters office.
The system
provides flexible trending of legacy and current raw and calculated data
with the facility to annotate data with comments.
The system
generates the required data for 3rd party reservoir analysis software.
The system
allows the production allocation algorithms to be fully controlled by
the petroleum engineers.
The system is
fully extensible and has been designed to accommodate a further set of
wells which are planned to come on stream in the near future.
