PetroLuster Engineering Framework
From exploration and discovery to drilling, completion, production and enhanced recovery, PetroLuster follows the integrated engineering workflow of an upstream oil and gas asset.
Integrated engineering
An upstream asset is not developed by moving through isolated academic subjects. Geological interpretation influences drilling. Formation evaluation informs reservoir decisions. Reservoir understanding determines well and development strategy.
Once production begins, pressure, rate and well-performance data provide new evidence that feeds back into reservoir management and future development decisions.
The workflow
Select a stage to explore the engineering activities and decisions involved.
Establish the geological and petroleum-system understanding, investigate the subsurface and identify prospective opportunities.
Explore stage →Key engineering activities
Use exploration and appraisal wells to establish whether a discovery is commercially and technically viable.
Explore stage →Key engineering activities
Integrate geological, petrophysical, fluid and pressure information into a coherent reservoir description.
Explore stage →Key engineering activities
Convert the reservoir understanding into a development strategy, production concept and field development plan.
Explore stage →Key engineering activities
Translate the subsurface objectives into technically sound well designs and execute the drilling programme safely.
Explore stage →Key engineering activities
Configure the completed well to establish controlled communication with the reservoir and deliver sustainable performance.
Explore stage →Key engineering activities
Evaluate well and reservoir behaviour through pressure, rate and deliverability measurements.
Explore stage →Key engineering activities
Bring the well and field into sustained production while continuously evaluating and improving well performance.
Explore stage →Key engineering activities
Use production, pressure and reservoir surveillance to diagnose performance and improve field decisions.
Explore stage →Key engineering activities
Evaluate opportunities to improve recovery as reservoir conditions, production behaviour and field maturity evolve.
Explore stage →Key engineering activities
Continuous reservoir management
The lifecycle does not end when a well starts producing. Production surveillance, pressure behaviour, well testing and reservoir performance continuously update the understanding of the asset.
Engineering intelligence
Petroleum Engineering Intelligence will use this engineering framework to connect field problems with the relevant data, physical principles, engineering methods, calculations, evidence and professional review.
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