Case study: Artificial Lift

Location: Permian Basin

Permian Operator Saves USD 700,000 on ESP Interventions

Lift IQ service minimizes manual ESP restarts, saving time and eliminating
deferred production
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Number of interventions

40

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20

10

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January February March April May June July August September

Pump start day (6 a.m. to 10 p.m.) Pump start night (10 p.m. to 6 a.m.) All others day (6 a.m. to 10 p.m.) All others night (10 p.m. to 6 a.m.)

Lift IQ service significantly reduced downtime and intervention time for 13 Permian Basin wells.

After struggling with ESP downtime in The operator’s goals Over 9 months, the service executed
unconventional Permian Basin wells, an ■ Reduce or eliminate travel and human 155 remote startups, 54 remote gas lock
independent operator used the remote intervention for ESP restarts interventions, 61 remote speed increases to
operation capability of Lift IQ* production ■ Accelerate restarts to cut accommodate real-time production changes,
life cycle management service to slash deferred production. and 113 other remote operations. The 75
deferred production and intervention costs. critical interventions were controlled in an
What Schlumberger recommended average of 21 minutes, rather than several
The operator’s concerns Introduce the Lift IQ service to monitor ESPs hours. The service enabled production
■ Well downtime because of ESP gas lock and enable remote intervention. of 6,474 bbl of oil that would have been
issues, power shortages, and pumps stuck deferred otherwise.
for hours per incident while waiting for field What was achieved
service technicians to visit a wellsite to The operator saved nearly USD 700,000 by More technical details
reset the pump monitoring four wells from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. See SPE-192512.
■ High intervention costs daily and nine wells 24/7.

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