DIGITAL OIL FIELDS - INTELLIGENT WELLS AND PLATFORMS

The integrity of oil and gas wells.

Public concerns about oil and natural gas extraction these days inevitably turn to hydraulic fracturing, where millions of gallons of water, sand, and chemicals are pumped underground at high pressures to crack open rocks. Hydraulic fracturing often occurs a mile or more down, far from the water we drink or the air we breathe. The focus for safety and environmental stewardship should often be s...

Oil and Gas Wells in Michigan

A Torque Estimation Method to Aid an Intelligent Management System for Oil Wells Automated

This article presents a contribution for an oil wells intelligent management system called SGPA that nowadays manages about 700 oil wells using the rod pumping lift method at Bahia State, Brazil. The intelligent management system will be applied on oil wells using the gradual pumping method. In this oil pumping method, the torque on the rod is very important for detection of operational problem...

Intelligent Supervision Systems for Improving the Industrial Production Performance in Oil Wells

An Intelligent Supervision Scheme for the Industrial Production is presented in this work. Such scheme is tested for gas lift (GL) oil wells. The proposal is based on the possible production assessment, the process variables (specifically, the bottom-well pressures), and the operational scenarios detection for the process (in the case of study, as an oil producing well), with the objective of o...

City-Scale Intelligent Systems and Platforms

As of 2014, 54% of the earth’s population resides in urban areas, and it is steadily increasing, expecting to reach 66% by 2050. Urban areas range from small cities with tens of thousands of people to megacities with greater than 10 million people. Roughly 12% of the global population today lives in 28 megacities, and at least 40 are projected by 2030. At these scales, the urban infrastructure ...