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Recognizing that decreasing road miles would lead to reduced
HS&E risks as well as improved productive time for operations
technicians, the pilot targeted a 25 percent reduction in travel. The
projected mileage based on well count would have been in excess of 4,500 miles each month without the IWPP. The project
is reporting a monthly mileage reduction of more than 50 percent (Figure 5A).
The dramatic decrease in driving time reduced costs and HS&E
risks, while also directly impacting productivity, freeing approximately 40 hours a month for each technician.
The average number of downtime events per well each
month has decreased from nine to five. Again, this 44 percent improvement far exceeds the pilot project's 10 percent target objective. The duration of the average unscheduled downtime event
has improved by 25 percent (from 20 to 15 hours), as shown in
JON KROME is head of operations, maintenance and integrity at BHP Billiton Petroleum in Houston. He joined the company in 2009 as an operations and production unit manager in
Trinidad and the United Kingdom, and began working with BHP
Billiton's Eagle Ford assets in 2013. Krome began his career
in 1988 in well operations and completions assignments with
Mobil Oil, and subsequently served as an operations manager
at Aera Energy, a senior manager at Accenture, an associate partner at IBM, and a senior manager at Capgemini Consulting. He
holds a B.A. in earth and planetary sciences from Johns Hopkins University, and an M.S. in petroleum engineering from the
University of Southern California.
MIKE BLOOM is principal of H2R Consulting LLC in
Houston, providing drilling, completions, engineering and
management consulting services. He previously served as a field
manager at BHP Billiton in the Eagle Ford Shale, managing upstream and midstream assets in DeWitt, Karnes and Bee counties, Tx. Bloom's eight years of service at BHP Billiton included drilling and completion-related assignments in the Eagle Ford,
Fayetteville Shale, deepwater Gulf of Mexico, and international projects. He began his career in 2001 as an operations engineer at Chevron. Bloom holds a B.S. in petroleum engineering from the University of Tulsa.
ALEX SWANSON is information systems manager, planning,
design and modification, at BHP Billiton in Houston, where he
leads a team of business analysts and solution architects providing technology detail design. Notable projects include the intelligent wells pad production program in the company's North
American shale plays. With more than 40 years of industry experience, Swanson joined BHP Billiton in 1994 and has held a
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Figure 5B.
Surveillance center technicians receive data in real time, speeding reaction and resolution time. In some instances, technicians
can identify an imminent shut-in event and prevent downtime.
BHP Billiton continues to see measureable and successful productivity gains in its Karnes County operations, and the company now plans to implement intelligent well pad functionality across
its North American shale production units, using the lessons
learned from the Eagle Ford project. To meet the specific demands
of each production environment, each production unit is to be
equipped with varying levels of automation and instrumentation.
Some of the more mature production units already are
equipped with an advanced level of automation and connectivity. Adding real-time surveillance centers in other production units
will achieve the goals of improving productivity and reducing
downtime. Less instrumented areas will receive the full intelligent well pad scope, including automation, piping and telecommunications. For these projects, the team will work directly with
operations and engineering to complete the design workshops and
select the appropriate level of instrumentation for each field. ❒
Editor's Note: For additional information on the Karnes County IWPP project, see SPE 174826, a technical paper presented
at the Society of Petroleum Engineers Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition, held Sept. 28-30, 2015, in Houston. The preceding article was adapted from that presentation.
number of IT management positions for both onshore and offshore assets in the United Kingdom, Trinidad and the United
States, including deepwater and onshore shale field developments.
DAVID ANTHONY is senior information systems manager,
strategy, compliance and projects, at BHP Billiton. He joined
the company in 1995 as a principal analyst, standards and technology, and subsequently served as information systems lead,
business systems manager in Algeria, manager of development
and production information technology, and senior information
systems manager for BHP Billiton's North American shale assets. Anthony holds a B.S. in mathematics and computing from
Swinburne University of Technology, and completed the business school graduate management program at the University of
Melbourne.
SHAUN DERISE is shale automation supervisor at BHP Billiton. He joined the company in 2013 as an electrical and instrumentation engineer, central engineering. Derise previously served as technical professional leader of instrumentation and
controls at KBR Inc., a technical adviser at Universal Pegasus
International, a subsidiary of Huntington Ingalls Industries, and
as a PLC programmer at Jelec USA Inc. He holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
LAUREN RIGHTMIRE is industry solutions and services manager, North American resources, at Accenture in Houston. She
joined Accenture as a consultant, North American resources, in
2013 after serving as a land technician at EXCO Resources Inc.
and as a landman at Carla Petroleum. Rightmire holds a B.B.A.
in energy commerce and petroleum land management from Texas
Tech University



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