Automation in oilfield production operations
The great variety and complexity of oilfield operations makes it difficult to define what a paper such as this should cover. Certainly, the automation of a two- or three-well lease in west Texas is nothing like that of a 20- to 30-well platform in the North Sea, with its attendant power generation, heating, ventilating, and other life support systems. Although this paper covers all production systems, it does not include technical details and stresses the more directly related oilproducing systems rather than the support systems. To automate simply means to use equipment which is self-operating to replace low-level or repetitive human tasks. Since oil and gas production is a process, the control of this is often called ''process control''. In its highest form, an oilfield automation system is often called a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system.
- Research Organization:
- Conoco
- OSTI ID:
- 6425755
- Journal Information:
- J. Pet. Technol.; (United States), Vol. 36:9
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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