Accelerate field development concept generation
Create automated and optimal field layouts for hundreds of development concepts in minutes
Accelerate field development concept generation
Field development planning (FDP) is a complex process that requires cross-company input from multiple disciplines. It is a discipline in which siloed decision making can lead to long cycle times, errors, and uncertainty.
The FDPlan concept generator, a new addition to the FDPlan™ agile field development planning solution on the Delfi™ digital platform, integrates well, facility and pipeline solutions. Leveraging AI, users can automatically place reservoir targets, and optimize well trajectory design, facility placement, and pipeline routing, all while minimizing capex and taking into account domain constraints.
The FDPlan concept generator creates automated and optimal field layouts for hundreds of development concepts in mere minutes, and enables multiple domain experts to collaborate in the same environment.
FDP involves major capital investment decisions, and takes years to mature opportunities with contributions from multiple disciplinary teams like subsurface, wells, facility, economics etc.
Waterfall, siloed, and sequential processes are the traditionally used to assess the feasibility of field development concepts where each discipline refines their assigned part of the plan in turn, leading to iterative loops. This leads to significant delays and extends signification project cycle time.
Piecing isolated concepts together is the greatest challenge: project teams are only able to assess a limited number of scenarios in a given timeframe, making change management difficult and causing a lack of confidence in reaching decisions.
What if we could start cross team collaboration at the beginning of the subsurface journey, rather than the end? What if we could leverage digital tools to iterate rapidly, generating and evaluating multiple development scenarios upfront?
The FDPlan concept generator makes that aspiration a reality in three ways:
- Reducing time to first oil to maximize revenue.
- Breaking down siloes, aligning domain specialists to streamline processes, reduce duplication of work, and optimize resource allocation.
- All data and accrued knowledge is stored in one place, enabling trusted, traceable and auditable decisions.
From deepwater to onshore, greenfield to brownfield, single to multiple reservoir, as soon as the skeleton field layout is generated, cross-discipline teams can work concurrently to refine their deliverables.
Subsurface teams can simulate production forecasts, while drilling and facility teams estimate costs and design feasibility—all using the same layout data.
