Production Chemical performance verifications
ScanWell’s real-time diagnostics optimize chemical management by monitoring parameters like turbidity, pH, and conductivity. This ensures precise dosing, reducing costs, enhancing efficiency, and protecting assets while supporting sustainability goals.
Optimizing Chemical Management with ScanWell Diagnostics
Effective chemical management is a cornerstone of successful oil and gas operations, ensuring asset integrity, optimal production efficiency, and cost control. ScanWell’s advanced diagnostic techniques help operators to evaluate the effectiveness of chemical treatments, refine dosages, and achieve superior operational outcomes. By integrating online real-time measurements of critical process parameters, ScanWell provides a data-driven foundation for dynamic chemical optimization.
Key Benefits of ScanWell’s Diagnostic Techniques:
- Real-Time Evaluation of Chemical Effectiveness:
- Continuous monitoring of key parameters such as turbidity, pH, conductivity, and phase fractions, allows operators to assess the impact of chemical applications in real time.
- Immediate feedback facilitates quick adjustments, ensuring that chemical dosages are fine-tuned to achieve desired outcomes without overuse or inefficiency.
- Cost Reduction:
- Precise dosage control minimizes chemical overuse, directly reducing operational expenditure (OPEX).
- Real-time data eliminates the reliance on periodic or lagging lab analyses, cutting the costs associated with offline sampling, transport, and delays.
- Enhanced Production Efficiency:
- Online monitoring ensures optimal chemical performance, reducing risks like scaling, fouling, corrosion, or emulsion stability issues that can hinder production.
- Real-time phase fraction analysis supports better understanding of production fluid dynamics, aiding in quicker resolution of flow assurance challenges.
- Improved Asset Integrity:
- Accurate pH and conductivity readings enable proactive corrosion monitoring and mitigation, preserving pipeline and facility integrity.
- Turbidity measurements help detect and address particulate contamination early, preventing equipment wear and potential failures.
- Data-Driven Optimization:
- The integration of real-time diagnostic tools into operational workflows allows operators to maintain a dynamic, responsive approach to chemical management.
- Historical data from continuous monitoring enables trend analysis, predictive maintenance, and strategic improvements in chemical programs.
- Sustainability and Environmental Impact:
- Reducing chemical consumption lowers waste and emissions, aligning with environmental regulations and sustainability goals.
- Better process efficiency decreases energy consumption, further minimizing environmental footprints.
Applications Across Operations:
- Scale Inhibitors: Monitor and adjust inhibitor levels to prevent deposition while avoiding excess chemical usage.
- Corrosion Mitigation: Ensure corrosion inhibitors are dosed correctly based on real-time conductivity and pH data.
- Demulsifiers and Emulsion Breakers: Optimize phase separation with real-time phase fraction analysis, ensuring cleaner oil and water streams.
- Water Treatment: Control water quality with turbidity and pH monitoring to maintain equipment integrity and meet discharge requirements.
