Real-time integrity monitoring for oil and gas assets

Abstract

Integrating design and operating envelopes of an asset with live operations data allows operators to see exceedances in real time and precisely understand the health of their asset. This technology is a direct stem of the rapidly growing digitalisation philosophy of many operators, whereby data that have traditionally been locked in PDF documents, Excel spreadsheets and other silos can be digitised, structured and connected to many different end points. For asset integrity monitoring, this means digitising and integrating design envelopes, data historians, enterprise resource planning systems and calculation tools with a unified front-end visualisation, to display what is really happening on an asset. By integrating and visualising these data sources, it is possible to create a single location for monitoring the health of all operator assets and generating reports for continued assessment. Once established, the platform provides a base for deployment of other intelligent toolkits, such as pattern recognition for valve signature monitoring, or predictive modelling for corrosion management over the life of field. This extended abstract uses a case study to discuss the benefits of standardising the visualisation landscape for monitoring the health of assets, the improvements and efficiencies delivered to the integrity monitoring process, the ability to highlight flaws in the design envelopes, and the engineering required to ensure that the right instrument is monitoring the right equipment.