Use case: Industry 4.0 realisation facilitated by InfoQuick Technologies – Unconventional Oil and Gas

实例：非常规油气田 – 凌锐蓝信助力客户实现工业4.0

Business Drivers

Unconventional Oil and Gas (e.g. shale, tight oil, oil sands, coal and gas conversion) retain many of the business drivers of traditional methods of Oil and Gas but they have some specific considerations

· Nimbleness and the need to re-deploy infrastructure – Pop up operations

· Often onshore with the need for active public relations.

· Strong environmental management focus particularly around waste water for unconventionals.

· Management of logistics to and from the site and collaboration with the supply chain from the site. Below we see an example of a fracking site.

非常规油气田（如页岩、致密油、油砂、煤制气）遵循传统油气资源商业模式，但仍然有几点特殊性需要考虑

• 敏捷性以及基础设施的再利用——临时突发性项目

• 通常为陆上作业，需要公共社区关系的支持

• 需要强力的环境管理，特别是在废水处理方面

• 现场物流与供应链的管理工作

以下是此类特殊油气田压裂施工情况示意图

Figure 2 Unconvetional production site

Business model （业务模式）

Unconventionals have the same essential broad life cycle as conventionals (exploration, appraisal, development planning, execution, production and abandonment). There are some specific focus areas to consider in terms of the business operations model:

· production operations run in parallel with well operation activities.

· Focus on management of the water resources in an environmentally responsible manner.

· reuse of infrastructure from one site to the next e.g. drilling equipment.

· use of logistics rather than just fixed pipeline infrastructure to move product to the customer.

· environmental management in tune with regulations and public relations. Including initial flare testing and ground water monitoring.

· increased opportunity for automation and low manned operations.

· operations tend to adopt an asset-based operations approach with a nimble mode of operation. Industry standards rather than proprietary standards tend to be adopted.

· Support for rapid decisions and continuous improvement through factory-style drilling and operations. A need that aligns well with Industry 4.0 concepts and InfoQuick capabilities.

· Use of different drilling and wells equipment e.g. frac related or water containment facilities.

· Manage fracking fluid inventory and logistics.

非常规油气田与常规型有同样的生命周期原则（勘探、评估、制定计划、执行、生产、弃置），但仍然有需要特备关注的具体环节：

• 生产运作与钻井运作平行工作

• 基于环保原则，需要特别关注水务处理

• 基础设施的重复利用，比如钻探设备

• 利用物流而非固定设施（如固定输油管道）将原油（原气）输送给客户

• 环境保护与管理要时刻铭记，制定规则并做好公共关系，包括点火测试与地下水监测

• 增加自动化，减少人工操作

• 运作过程最好采用基于当地油田（气田）的方式，而且要敏捷迅速，最好使用行业通行标准，而不是专利高标准运作整个体系

• 以工厂风格的钻探与运作方式，帮助进行快速决策与持续性改善，以支持整个运作，是很有必要的。在此种情况下，引入工业4.0以及凌锐蓝信SD-WAN技术很有必要

• 使用特别的钻探、钻井设备，比如压裂设备或水处理设施

• 管理压裂液的储存与物流

Adoption of Industry 4.0 elements underpinned by InfoQuick Technologies

工业4.0技术应用点

The following explains some of the industry 4.0 alignments in unconventionals 工业4.0在非常规作业流程中的应用

Figure 3 Unconventionals Industry 4.0 themes and InfoQuick support

There are some key notes in terms of how InfoQuick DT-WAN can be supportive of unconventional operators and their attempts to adopt Industry 4.0 principles:

· IIoT can be used to drive proactive intervention rather than relying on arbitrary time or usage intervention. In addition to reducing equipment servicing costs, this contributes to equipment longevity and further improves production uptime. InfoQuick can provide connectivity and cloud capabilities to deploy the necessary sensor monitoring, big data and analytics solutions for a large quantity of unconventional production sites. These solutions can be packaged, standardised and deployed as part of the site set up or retrofitted as needed.

· Unconventional production sites which might otherwise be quite similar can exhibit substantial variance in production efficiency and overall output. Big Data and analytics can highlight these variations and help operators plan responses.

· IIoT provided data of actual performance, provision of a ‘digital twin’ (modelling optimum performance), along with advanced data analytics, can characterize the behaviour of optimally performing equipment in the field and allow intervention and fine tuning where the physical asset is not performing as designed.

· Considerable amounts of Big data are being generated during the development and operation of unconventional reservoirs. From these analytics solutions operations can help review asset performance against top quartile.

· Logistics applications can be deployed across a broad geographical area on a global scale using InfoQuick SD-WAN and cloud capabilities. These will help with smooth production and delivery to market of product.

非常规作业的关键点：

· IIoT 可以实现前瞻性干预建设或生产流程，而不必等到固定时间或使用过程中不得不干预。而且，IIoT可以提升设备生命周期并进一步提高生产周期，同时降低设备使用的单位时间成本。而凌锐蓝信可以为大型非常规作业的油气田，提供更好的网络连接与云连接能力，以便部署必要的传感器监控手段，以及大数据分析能力

· 非常规做作业可能更需要让生产效率质变，以确保最终产品输出。大数据分析非常有用

· IIoT 的数据实际情况反映，数字孪生（把最好的输出结果模式化），以及更高级的数据分析等能力，可以最好地发挥场地设备并干预，而且如有实体设备未发挥出设计性能，可以边实施边调试

· 在非常规作业的勘探与运营期间，有大量的数据产生，数据分析可以精确回顾油气田的情况

· 物流应用可以通过全球SD-WAN骨干接入服务可以分布式部署到不同地区或云平台，有助于更加顺畅地生产与交付