Well Integrity Management Systems; Achievements Versus Expectations

Author(s):  
Ahmed Abdurrahman Sultan
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fianti Ramadhani ◽  
Syaiful Nurdin ◽  
Michael Olu Etuhoko ◽  
Yang Zhi ◽  
Sugeng Mulyono ◽  
...  

Abstract Four high-pressure-high temperature (HPHT) and sour gas wells are currently operating at Madura offshore as the only productive assets for Husky-CNOOC Madura Limited (HCML). Each well performance is very crucial to fulfill the demand of the gas customers in East Java, Indonesia. Since starting production in 2017, the wells experienced two main well integrity challenges, high annulus pressure and wellhead growth. Both challenges are very dependent to the well flow rate and the flow duration. A continuous operation monitoring is highly required in order to keep the wells operating safely. To overcome the challenges, HCML established a Well Integrity Management System (WIMS) document that approached several international standards as its basis. As company grows, development plan challenged the WIMS to perform faster and more efficient as compared to the existing manual system. From there, the journey of WIMS digitalization began. The journey started with the alignment of the existing WIMS document to the ISO-16530-1 at Operational Phase with more stringent boundary to operate the wells safely. The alignment covers, but not limited to the organizational structure, well barriers and criteria, monitoring and surveillance, annulus pressure management, and maintenance. The document also covered risk assessment and management of well integrity failure, which was the backbone of the WIMS digitalization. The current digital solutions allow production data to be accessed and retrieved directly from the system for analysis purposes. It compares the recorded data with pre-determined rules and parameters set in the system. It triggers a notification to the responsible personnel to perform the required action should any anomaly occurs. It also can send a reminder to users to schedule and complete a well Integrity test to ensure that a well is always in compliance with the WIMS. All test reports and documentation are stored in the system as preparation for any future audit. A key requirement of the expert software system was access to future developments that can offer enhanced functionality of the well integrity platform through additional near time capabilities such as predictive erosion and corrosion for downhole flow wetted components. This is being developed to enhance workover scheduling for existing wells and material selection for new wells and is planned to update automatically critical well integrity criteria such as tubing burst, collapse and MAASP.


2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanjiv Kumar ◽  
Mohammed A. Al-Atwi ◽  
Abdulrahman K. Al-Mulhim ◽  
Mohammad A. Al-Otaibi ◽  
Mohammed S. Al-Mulhim ◽  
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Author(s):  
Luis Sanchez Graciano ◽  
Hernan Paz ◽  
Mirek Urednicek

This paper describes the work that was undertaken to re-qualify the Cactus-Guadalajara LPG pipeline for a higher MAOP without taking the pipeline out of service for a hydrostatic test. It demonstrates how geo-positioning technology, high-resolution in-line inspection, and data management systems can be successfully utilized for such project, even when the record-keeping associated with previous pipeline repairs has been deficient. By establishing a geo-referenced pipeline asset management system that integrates physical asset description, operational data, internal inspection and pipeline repair data, a sound foundation has been created for the future integrity management of this pipeline.


2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Jain ◽  
M. A. Al Hamadi ◽  
H. Saradva ◽  
J. Asarpota ◽  
S. J. Sparke ◽  
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Author(s):  
Behnam MORADI ◽  
Samira BARAKAT ◽  
Peyman KHALAGHI DEHABADI ◽  
Yazdan MAHMOUDIAN

Introduction: Risk-based inspection is a powerful tool provided by the American Petroleum Institute in order to respond to the needs of the process industries. The main focus of this method is on inspection, integrity management, maintenance, as well as reduction of the probability of failure. The purpose of this study was to conduct the risk-based inspection technique and critical success factors in its implementation to improve risk and process safety based management systems. Methods: In this review study, we first listed the keywords based on the research title including Critical Success Factors, risk assessment, process safety, corrosion management, inspection Plan, failure mechanism, Risk Based Inspection, Risk Based Maintenance, Risk-based Integrity Management, and Asset Integrity Management. Later, each term was searched specifically and without time limit in the internal and external databases of Science Direct, PubMed, Google Scholar, SID, Google Search, Magiran, Civilica, and Scopus. Result: A systematic review of various studies showed that critical success factors provided the necessary context for the implementation of a risk-based inspection process in the process industries and were essential factors for the effective implementation of the RBI method. Conclusion: By analyzing the results of the studies we found that identifying CSFs can improve the effective implementation of RBI in industries and guarantee the benefits mentioned for this method. Moreover, the engineering and accurate implementation of risk-based inspection method will lead to the best implementation of management systems based on the risk and process safety and its improvement.


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