PRESENTATION
2017 - Users Conference - San Francisco - Oil & Gas/Industrial Chemicals
AF Process Logic Use Case - Blowout Preventer Monitoring
A blowout preventer (BOP) is safety equipment that is used to manage and confine wellbore fluids during drilling and completion stages of oil & gas wells. Subsea blowout preventers operate at depths of up to 12,000 feet and working pressures of up to 15,000 psi. Electrohydraulic BOP control systems have over 100 functions to regulate and direct control fluid to preventers and fail-safe valves.
The Shell BOP Reliability Team uses the PI System on a daily basis to monitor BOP performance and integrity during drilling operations and equipment testing. Monitoring of the BOP system requires a complex layer of process logic to deduce system operations on the basis of hydraulic valve positions. This process logic is embedded into a PI AF asset model of the BOP that provides scalability, reusability, and flexibility to meet our long-term analytics roadmap.
In this presentation, we will discuss our monitoring use-case, some early ‘wins’, and the enabling process logic layer
Company
Accenture
Speaker
Zev Arnold
Zev Arnold is an OSIsoft accredited domain consultant in Accenture's Asset and Operations Services practice. For the past eight years, he has focused on real-time process data and historians, having worked with these systems in many different environments and companies to craft industry-leading solutions.
Project responsibilities have included business analysis, solution design and development, systems architecture, and project management. In addition, he has provided thought leadership in real-time enterprise infrastructure and technology through industry conferences, communities of practice, and project engagements.
Company
Shell
Speaker
Sebastian Boegershausen
Sebastian Boegershausen is a petroleum engineer with Shell and has 15 years experience in developing and deploying new technologies for drilling and production systems. He has worked in technical lead roles on defining, building and operating Shell’s real-time production surveillance system for monitoring oil and gas treatment machinery on offshore production platforms and subsea facilities. In the past three years, he has brought that experience to Shell’s subsea Blowout Preventer (BOP) reliability group and served as a technology deployment lead, responsible for identifying and deploying new technologies to ensure reliable and efficient BOP operations. In that role, he has led the efforts to define and deploy real-time data collection and analytics for BOP’s.
Company
Shell Global Solutions
Speaker
Cyndi Bourne