Digital Deflation: How Hard to Save $1/boe?
A typical offshore operator can very readily save $1/boe via continued, digital deflation; which is tantamount to $1bn per annum at a c3Mboed Oil Major. Our numbers are derived from…
More dangerous than coronavirus? The safety case for digital and remote operations.
Remote working, digital de-manning, drones and robotics — all of these themes will structurally accelerate in the aftermath of the COVID crisis. Our research outlines their economics and how they…
Do “digital” completions lift Permian IRRs?
We have modelled the economic uplift of extra digital instrumentation on a typical Permian well. If the data can uplift production by 2.5%, then c$0.4M of instrumentation costs would “pay…
Deploying the Digital Twin
This data-file tabulates 36 recent technical papers into “digital twins”, in order to understand how the technology is being deployed around the upstream oil and gas industry. The data show…
Digitization after the crisis: who benefits and how much?
…most digital operators and identify longer-term winners from the supply chain. $329.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to cart Pages 2 outlines our database of case studies into digitization around the energy industry….
Inflow Control: Our Top 20 Papers from 2019
This data-file summarises twenty recent papers using inflow control devices: an exciting digital technology to optimise horizontal wells by limiting production from zones that are susceptible to flowing water or…
Energy Technologies and Energy Transition
…who benefits and how much? (Apr-2020, 22-pages) More dangerous than coronavirus? The safety case for digital and remote operations (Apr-2020, online) Internet versus Oil: CO2 contrast? (Nov-2019, online) CO2-labelling for…
Well-by-well optimisation?
…includes our summary of BP’s patent, schematics for its implementation, data behind our chart above and a ranking of BP’s “digital technology” versus other Majors that we have assessed. …
Can super-computers lower decline rates?
…29pp of uplift comes from optimising the development plan for the new platform. Emerging digital technologies appear to be keeping LT oil-markets better supplied than many expect, with production upside…
Upstream technology leaders: weathering the downturn?
…the downturn, benefit from dislocation and thrive in the recovery. This 14-page research note finds clear leaders in onshore, offshore, shale, LNG and digital, while others in the industry may…