API RP 19G12 July 15, 2009Page 1
API RP 19G12
Gas-Lift Automation
Kick-Off Meeting
Meeting Venue
Location:
Schlumberger Office
1325 South Dairy Ashford
Houston, Texas 77077
See location instructions and map
Teleconference (for those who can’t participate in person):
Tel: (USA Toll Free) 1-866-910-4857
Tel: (Others) 1-719-387-5500
Participant Pass Code: 540866
Date and Time:
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Meeting Staff:
Host: Wayne Mabry, Schlumberger
Work Group Chair: Cleon Dunham, Oilfield Automation Consulting
Food and Beverage:
Lunch, at 12:00, with members of API RP 19G13 Work Group
Coffee, soft drinks
Agenda
Attendees: July 15, 2009- Rajan ChokshiWeatherford
- Grant DornanConocoPhillipsBy Telephone
- Neal de GuzmanIntelligent Agents
- Cleon DunhamOilfield Automation Consulting
- Keith FangmeierHess
- Wayne MabrySchlumberger
- Richard PetersShell Global Solutions
- Ian SchuurSchlumberger
- Welcome, Safety BriefingWayne Mabry
Minutes: July 15, 2009
- The safety briefing was given by Wayne Mabry.
- If you leave the room, make sure your PC is locked to the furniture.
- IntroductionsAll
Minutes: July 15, 2009
- The attendees of the meeting introduced themselves and their involvement with gas-lift automation.
- Purpose of API RP 19G12 Work GroupCleon Dunham
Minutes: July 15, 2009
- The purpose of the Work Group was reviewed from the forming document presented to API Sub-Committee 19.
- Position of API RP 19G12 Work Group in API OrganizationWayne Mabry
Minutes: July 15, 2009
- The API 19G 12 Work Group is part of the 19G Task Group, which is part of API Sub-Committee 19.
- The plan is to perform a word-by-word read-through of the document, at the Task Group level, before it is passed on to the SC 19.
- Develop list of potential additional members of Work GroupAll
Minutes: July 15, 2009
- People to be considered to add to the Work Group roster:
- IPCOS: Jan Briers. Rick Peters will contact him.
- Oxy: Greg Stephenson. Cleon Dunham will contact him.
- Decker Technology: Ken Decker. Cleon Dunham will contact him.
- Person to be determined: DCS company. ABB can probably cover this area.
- Sid Smith: Rick Peters will contact him.
- What are the “gaps” for which we need coverage?
- Instrumentation
- Training? Perhaps this can be provided by experts in each area.
- Discuss Scope of the DocumentAll
Minutes: July 15, 2009
- The scope of the document will (may) address the following area:
- What is Automation?
- Level I - Automating data acquisition
- Level II - Automating injection control (well centric)
- Level III - Optimizing injection control (system centric)
- Level IV – Dealing with constraints such as sand production, scale, water production, water flooding, etc.
- Recognizing problems
-Level II alarms – combinations of parameters
-Level III alarms – comparison of actual performance with models
-Level IV – prediction of potential occurrence of events so pre-corrective actions can be taken
- Developing strategies to address problems
-Level VI – relate information here to other models
- Providing transparency to users
- What are methods of using automation?
- Manual collection of data
- Telemetry of data and manual control
- Telemetry of data and automated control
- Telemetry of data and optimized control
- Types of Fields
- Brown Fields
- Green Fields
- Beige Fields (older than Brown Fields)
- Oil Fields
- Gas Fields
- CO2 Recovery Fields
- Onshore Fields
- Offshore Fields
- Sub-sea
- Continuous gas-lift
- Intermittent gas-lift
- Dual gas-lift
- Large Operators
- Medium Operators
- Small Operators
- “Traditional” Fields
- “Smart” Fields
- Automation Drivers
- Safety
- Environmental constraints
- Efficiency through better, more consistent control
- Multi-well system constraints
- Help with start-up
- Help with shut-down, re-start
- Hardware Issues
- Instrumentation
- Injection pressure
- Production pressure
- Injection rate
- Temperature (?)
- Production rate
- Determined with a test separator
- Measured or estimated with instruments
- Model to infer production
- Water cut measurement
- DTS (temperature)
- Fiber-optic DTS systems
- Electrical connection to pressure, injection rate, temperature
- Surface controlled downhole gas-lift valve control (electric, hydraulic)
- Surface controlled formation control valves
- Fixed chokes
- Variable chokes
- Automated control valves
- Fixed chokes
- Variable chokes
- Automated control valves
- SCADA
- DCS
- Wellhead RTU’s
- Software Issues
- Data storage and retention
- Data access
- Data transformation (quality, validation, smoothing, cleansing)
- Visualization
- Diagnostic software
- Analysis software
- Allocation software
- Optimization software
- Management software
- Development of Key Performance Indicators
- People Issues
- The
- Benefits
- The
- Review draft of API RP 19G12 document outlineCleon Dunham
Minutes: July 15, 2009
- Review of the API RP 19G12 document will be deferred until the next meeting
- The outline will be updated based on the discussion above.
- Obtain volunteers to lead each sectionAll
Minutes: July 15, 2009
- What is automation:Rick Peters
- What are methods of using automation?Rick Peters
- Types of fieldsRajan Chokshi
- Automation driversKeith Fangmeier
- Hardware issuesKeith Fangmeier
- Software issuesNeil de Guzman
- People issuesCleon Dunham
- BenefitsCleon Dunham
- Agree on target dates for first drafts of each sectionAll
Minutes: July 15, 2009
- Produce outlines of these sections by Sept. 8, 2009.
- Send them to Cleon Dunham and Wayne Mabry for harmonization.
- The Work Group will meet on Sept. 22, at 1:00 pm.
- Agree on place and time for next meetingAll
Minutes: July 15, 2009
- The next meeting will be ConocoPhillips on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009, at 1:30.
- Any other businessAll
Minutes: July 15, 2009
- There was no other “new” business.
- Adjourn
Minutes: July 15, 2009
- The meeting was adjourned at 3:45 pm.