Case study

Integrated operations deliver asset
optimization and significant savings
Customer profile• Western & Central Canada• 45-plus production andoperations engineers• 150-plus field operators
to monitor• 4,000 wells in 15 fields

More and more often, production teams are managing larger well populations
built through acquisition and consolidation. These larger and more diverse assets
are not corresponding with larger production engineering and optimization teams.
In fact, many organizations have aggressive goals to streamline optimization
efforts and integrate previously siloed tools and teams.
One North American oil and gas company recently addressed these issues andfound a path to integrated operations for well optimization with direct operational
improvements after launching an Integrated Operations Center (IOC) to support
45-plus production and operations engineers and 150-plus field operators tomonitor 4,000 wells in 15 fields across Western and Central Canada with theLeucipa™ automated field production software solution.

The results?
In just six months, the company saw:
• Incremental net recovery of over 14% over base volumes• Base decline was arrested by ~6%• Annualized incremental margin improvement of over $6MM net
This Case Study highlights how the Leucipa solution enabled this customer toquickly achieve real results across 15-fields and the value the solution is delivering
today for Baker Hughes customers.

$6 MM

net annualized incremental
margin improvement

14%

incremental net recoveryof over base volumes

6%

arrested base decline

The operator was well equipped with an up-to-date digital profile. The technology
stack used to manage this integrated operation was extensive, consisting of overa dozen effective and targeted digital solutions ranging from SCADA systems andhistorians to equipment optimization and data integration solutions. But even witha robust toolbox of digital solutions, the team was unable to execute the highest
value add jobs and was consistently in firefighting mode.
To address these challenges, the customer set out to find and implement an
automated workflow application specific to production operations that could taketheir team beyond integrated information and enable automated production
optimization and opportunity management. After a year of vetting options, they
selected the Leucipa solution.

Fast to implement, easy to integrate.
After 90 days, the Leucipa solution was live and connected to eight key systems
using Amazon Web Services, allowing IOC personnel to leverage existing data tounderstand their business in ways that were previously impractical or impossible.
Within weeks, previously undiagnosed data quality issues were fixed, and theteams began collaborating more naturally because there was shared visibility
across systems. The team returned to a practice of multi-competence well reviews
bringing diverse stakeholders together.
The positive result of this of Leucipa deployment was best illustrated by theimprovement in Job Execution—which improved by over 500% within 6 months. A
combination of automated workflows including the Well Opportunity Management
System helped the IOC team drastically improve their execution of jobs.

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