UPSTREAM OILFIELD LIFECYCLE

KALYAN VENUGOPAL

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Outline

Upstream Oilfield Lifecycle

Data Categories
OSDU
Responsible Machine Learning

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Oil and Gas Industry

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Upstream Oilfield Lifecycle

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Exploration

Five key elements are required for

success in exploration:
Source and maturation
Trap (structure and seal)
Reservoir (presence and quality)
Migration and timing
Preservation and hydrocarbon quality

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Poll Time- Poll 1
A well drilled for exploratory purpose is called
a) Appraisal well
b) Production well
c) Exploration or Wild Cat well
d) Injection well

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Appraisal

Process to confirm commerciality

Tools, techniques and workflows on rocks
and fluids
Methodologies to define and categorize
the commercial volumes
Production mechanisms

Outcome is field development plan

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Development

Development is process of executing the

field development plan
Key steps include
Drilling
Completion
Production facilities construction
Linking the wells to the production
system

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Production

Key elements for success in production

Optimizing reservoir recovery
Ensuring flow
Reducing expenses

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Poll Time- Poll 2
Which activity applies to all the phases of the Upstream oilfield
lifecycle:
a) Well Intervention
b) Well Construction-Drilling
c) Well Completion
d) Seismic Operations

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Upstream Oil and Gas- Technologies
Well Construction
Land Rigs Reservoir Production
Bits & Drilling Tools Stimulation
Directional Drilling Completions
Logging-While-Drilling Artificial Lift
Mud Logging Subsea Production Systems
Drilling Fluids Well Intervention
Solids Control
Cementing

Production Delivery Reservoir Characterization

Seismic Services
Production Systems
Wireline
Process Systems Well Testing
Valves & Measurement Software
Chemicals & Treatment Petro-technical Expert
Production Management Services

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Data Categories BRONZE
BELT

Spatial Well Production Reservoir

Culture Identity Configuration Reserves
Boundaries / Licenses /
Headers Network Prospects
Directional Surface Seismic Interpretation
Leases Drilling
License History Planning Sub-Surface Time & Depth Horizon Grid
Bathymetry/ Topography Drilling Regular Geological and Simulation
Surface Images Completion Measured & Models
Gravity & Magnetics
Events Allocated
Formation volumes
Coordinate Systems Tops / Surface Scanned and Electronic
Stratigraphic Columns Picks Pump Data Documents
Core Description Operational /
Seismic Geochemistry Measurements
Intervals Occasional
3D Navigation Pressure
3D Outlines Logs Planned /
2D Seismic Trace Curves Unplanned Events
3D Seismic Trace Petrophysical Samples
Parameters Well Tests
Acquisition Parameters Checkshots
Processing Parameters Synthetic
Velocities Seismograms

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Example Applications
Reservoir Characterization
Seismic Fault Detection, Salt Body Isolation & Stratigraphy Mapping
Well log QC, Correlation, Lithology Prediction, Permeability Prediction

Drilling
Predicting Drill String Vibration, Run Duration, Rate of Penetration

Production
Forecasting Production, Water-Cut Prediction, ReFrac Candidate Selection

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OSDU
Open Subsurface Data Universe (OSDU)
Cross-Industry Collaboration- develop a common, standards-based and open basis for E&P data
platform

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Responsible Machine Learning
• Twitter introduced its Responsible Machine Learning Initiative in April
2021. Twitter’s Responsible ML consists of the following pillars:
• Taking responsibility for our algorithmic decisions
• Equity and fairness of outcomes
• Transparency about our decisions and how we arrived at them
• Enabling agency and algorithmic choice
• Google and Microsoft had already taken their own steps toward a
more ethical, compliant, secure, and human-centered artificial
intelligence.

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Principles of Responsible AI

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Thank You. Questions?

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