ADNOC's Reservoir Compliance Framework Pivotal to U.A.E Production Sustainability
Authors: Al Beshr Manal , Khan Muhammad Navaid , Mohan Richard , Abdou Medhat , Al Marzouqi Mohamed , Al Katheeri Abdulla , Al Nuaimi Mai 
Published: November 2019

Reservoir management guidelines are an enabler of, production sustainability, assurance to reservoir health and high ultimate recovery. Monitoring the compliance of the field production against the set of reservoir management guidelines is one of the key processes for ADNOC, being a governing body of major U.A.E. hydrocarbon producing fields.

With the business need to ramp up production, field maturation, and the associated operational challenges, it is critical for ADNOC to effectively monitor and regulate its field production plans to assure the long-term production sustainability. In this regard, ADNOC has developed a robust framework that is implemented through an automated analytics platform that enables different ADNOC technical teams to effectively monitor and report the compliance status of each hydrocarbon barrel from produced from ADNOC assets. The paper highlights the features of the workflow implemented, the management of change strategy and the business value created.

The automated process allows the consolidation of a variety of well, reservoir and field-level data. The analytical platform enables integrated analysis, KPI calculation and interactive visualization. The framework assesses the compliance based on three governing parameters: well technical rate, gas-oil ratio (GOR), and bottom hole flowing pressure. The compliance analysis is carried out on a monthly basis where the monthly back allocated production data for each well is compared with the set of operating guidelines in an automated data analytics and visualization environment. A pragmatic compliance tolerance is considered in the calculations to accommodate the measurement inaccuracies, as well as the operational limitations while allowing flexibility to exclude nonconformity with valid reasons.

The overall process is governed through an automated business process management (BPM) platform, which seamlessly regulates the predefined subroutines among different stakeholders to report and track different corrective actions in a timely manner.

The framework implementation has strengthened the overall compliance governance process; and has been instrumental to properly manage asset production capacity in a systematic manner. This has subsequently enabled the preparation of a prompt action plan and has improved the operating efficiency of more than 3% within the first six months of implementation, through restoring, compensating and increasing the effective capacity of overall ADNOC Production.

The approach has demonstrated great value both in terms of process alignment, as well as from the production assurance standpoint at a country level, and allows the organization to have an established system, which provides: Consistent compliance monitoring standardsMinimal subjectivityComplete process governanceQuick turnaround timeAuditable history

The aim of this paper is to publish a stepwise guide for any operators who might be interested to adopt and implement a similar approach to assure the long-term production sustainability and health of their assets.