Abstract
Abstract Technology over the last decade has revolutionized information systems and how data are collected and shared in our daily lives. An extraordinary amount of data is being collected, stored, analyzed, and shared every day. The oil and gas industry is no stranger to data collection and analysis, but data acquisition and management has historically been complex and expensive and, thus, slowly implemented. With recent advances in hardware and software, costs have plummeted to yield rapid implementation of sophisticated monitoring, analysis, and easy sharing of information in oilfield projects. The thermal-enhanced oil recovery (TEOR) process requires constant monitoring and analytical management of wells and facilities. This data management process requires large amounts of data to be collected, correlated and acted-upon on a very frequent basis, resulting in easily-recognizable business benefits by oil producers. This paper reviews the use of wireless instrumentation and integrated data collection systems for digitally managing oilfields, with one such implementation being reviewed. An independent oil producer using wireless instrumentation and state-of-the-art data integration technology has beenoperating the largest Wireless HART network in the United States since the beginning of 2010. This independent oil producer is wirelessly monitoring all of their steam injectors in three thermal oil fields located in western Kern County, California.
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