Overview

Sieger & Co overhauled the production loss management system for an Energy Company in Nigeria.

This overhaul aimed to replace their existing spreadsheet based production loss allocation system with a bespoke web application.

Production performance monitoring is an integral part of the operations of oil and gas companies. This monitoring helps identify bottlenecks in a company's production potential and can generally lead to improved efficiency and profitability. The general approach to performance monitoring involves mapping all sub-sections of a specific asset that is subsurface (reservoirs and wells), plants (surface facilities), and export & commercial, and the maximum production potential (MPP) for each sub-section.

The sub-section with the lowest maximum production potential (LMPP) can be identified as the current production bottleneck for the asset. This means that any production improvement opportunities for that part of the asset should be prioritized since it currently determines production limits.

If the recorded production from the asset for a given period is less than the LMPP for that period, the difference between both volumes is the hydrocarbon loss.

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Challenge

Our solution

The previous production loss management system (PLMS) was comprised of multiple unconnected spreadsheet files and was opaque and difficult to query
In the previous PLMS, a new spreadsheet was created every month to track all loss incidents within that month as well as their causes. When the month ended, the loss data within the document was used to generate a monthly production scorecard which could be shared with stakeholders.

Since losses and deferments from each month were housed in separate spreadsheets, the PLMS could not be queried effectively and data was duplicated across multiple users and computers. Daily and weekly loss report generation was also tedious and time-consuming.

Sieger & Co designed and developed a web based, cloud hosted system to replace the old PLMS. This system is directly connected to the company's historical production database and automatically calculates the total daily hydrocarbon loss based on available production data. It also provides informative, interactive, and easily exportable reports to users detailing all fluid losses (and their causes) over a given period within a given asset. The system was deployed to Amazon AWS to allow users securely access it wherever they are.

Results:

Sieger & Co's work at this company led directly to a more transparent and auditable production loss management system since all stakeholders had direct access to the system and its reports whenever required.

Our work also led to a noticeable reduction in the time to resolution of long-running loss incidents.

Technologies:

HTML, CSS, JS (Frontend Development), Amazon Web Services (Cloud Hosting and Storage), MySQL (Database) SQL (Database Development), Java Spring (Webservices Development), Java SE (Backend Development).

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