Key business requirements of digital twins in the oil and gas exploration and development industry
As global energy demand continues to grow, the oil and gas industry, as a key area of energy supply, is facing a series of severe challenges. From the difficult development of new exploration areas, to the complex problems of oil and gas reservoir development, to the safety and efficiency requirements in pipeline transportation and gathering, the traditional business model can no longer meet the growing industry needs. The rise of digital twin technology has brought new hope for the development of the oil and gas industry. Digital twin technology can achieve real-time monitoring, accurate simulation and optimization of the entire process of oil and gas production through digital mapping of physical entities. Next, we will explore in depth how the business needs of various links in the oil and gas industry are closely integrated with digital twin technology to provide strong support for the intelligent upgrading of the industry.
Exploration
To deal with the replacement and cost issues of new areas: Use digital twin technology to carry out refined reservoir and reservoir description (i). By building a high-precision geological model, simulate and analyze the geological structure of the new area, reduce the blindness of exploration, and improve the success rate of new area discovery and reserve growth, thereby reducing exploration costs.
Solving construction and environmental protection problems: With the help of remote monitoring and safety control of production status (ii) function. Through the digital twin model, the exploration and construction process can be monitored in real time to warn of construction risks in advance, meet environmental protection supervision requirements, and strictly control the environmental impact during the construction process.
Development
Overcome the difficulties in oil and gas reservoir development: achieve fine prediction and optimization of reservoir development (iii). Based on digital twin technology, the oil and gas reservoir development plan is simulated and optimized by comprehensively considering multiple factors such as geology and reservoirs to deal with problems such as the increase in high water content blocks.
Meet the needs of remote operation: use the production status remote monitoring and safety control (ii) and unmanned and undermanned production site (vi). Through the remote monitoring system built by digital twins, the wellbore and ground injection, collection and transmission equipment are remotely and unmanned, and the level of intelligent analysis is improved.
Promote scientific research information sharing: Promote the integrated collaboration of geology and engineering (iv). Use digital twin technology to break the information barriers across geology and engineering, realize scientific research information sharing, and improve the efficiency of basin-level integrated scientific research.
Improve process integration and management level: Strengthen the intelligent management of production processes (v) and cross-professional and cross-business process integration. Through digital twins, the production process is digitally simulated and optimized to achieve online management and sharing of results.
Pipeline
Ensure pipeline production safety: rely on remote monitoring and safety control of production status (ii) and real-time monitoring and optimization of pipeline production (vii). Establish an integrated monitoring system to monitor the integrity of the pipeline and the continuity of gathering and transportation in real time, and optimize in real time according to actual conditions.
Gathering and transportation
Strengthen oil and gas reserve monitoring: use remote monitoring and safety control of production status (ii) and intelligent management of gathering and transportation stations and equipment (viii). Real-time production monitoring and hazard perception of oil and gas storage and distribution to ensure energy security.
Improve equipment operation efficiency: use intelligent management of production processes (v) and intelligent management of gathering and transportation stations and equipment (viii). Real-time online monitoring and early warning of various types of oil and gas storage and transportation equipment to improve equipment operation efficiency and benefits.