Operations Archives

Neural Network Uses Weather Data to Boost Energy Efficiency in the Oil and Gas Industry

GenAI, LLM, Oil & Gas, Operations, Operations Engineering, Vermilion Energy

Energy efficiency is crucial for the oil and gas industry, where operational costs and environmental impact are under constant scrutiny. Predicting and managing electrical consumption and peak demand accurately, especially with the variability of weather conditions, is a significant challenge. This work presents a neural network model trained on historical weather and electrical data to forecast electrical consumption, peak demand, and power factor.

Daniel Mawunyo Doe, Prabhu Srinivasan, Shane Pollock, Huzeifa Ismail

Large Language Models Boost Supervisory Efficiency With AI-Generated Reports

GenAI, LLM, Murphy Oil Corporation, Oil & Gas, Operations, Subsurface Engineering

Routine status reporting often presents a challenge because of its intimidating and time-consuming nature for both employees and supervisors. With large language models, a system was developed to generate coherent artificial-intelligence-driven reports. The goal is to enhance the understanding of overall insights and reduce the time required for individual report reading.

Moksh Dani, Sean Petersen, Minh Nguyen, Ngoc Thao Van Phan, Huzeifa Ismail

Digital Tool Brings Clarity to Reporting of Downtime

Downtime, Drilling, Murphy Oil Corporation, Oil & Gas, Operations

Murphy Oil worked across its assets to create a tool called the Global Downtime Report (GDR). The GDR provides a global perspective of operational downtime data, focusing on nonproductive time related to drilling, completion, and production operations.

Huzeifa Ismail, Laura Naaykens, Mark Mick

Innovation Advances Digital Culture Throughout Company

Murphy Oil Corporation, Oil & Gas, Operations, SPE

A technology initiative is changing more than the digital landscape at Murphy Oil. Since its deployment in November 2018, Murphy Labs is changing the very culture of the corporation.

Eric Hambly, Sean Aslam, Huzeifa Ismail

Digitized Workflow Aids Water Management for Hydraulic Fracturing

Completions, Murphy Oil Corporation, Oil & Gas, Operations, SPE

A comprehensive, digitized water-management application has been designed to streamline and enhance the monitoring and management of water resources used in hydraulic fracturing.

Adam McConnell, Molly Smith, Huzeifa Ismail

Data Science Offers Perspective on Downtime of Production Facilities Caused by Storms in the Gulf of Mexico

Murphy Oil Corporation, Oil & Gas, Operations, SPE

Tropical storms severely affect oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico, especially during the storm season from June to December. Offshore well managers often need to shut down operations and evacuate the facility because of storm alerts. The purpose of this paper is to determine the effect of storms on production by quantifying metrics such as downtime days and downtime percentage after the storm has passed and whether a facility’s platform type affected these metrics.

Olasimbo Ogunde, Huzeifa Ismail

Proposed Framework Normalizes Completions Tags

Murphy Oil Corporation, Oil & Gas, Operations, SPE

Murphy Oil has created a work flow to normalize the tags it uses when collecting data on its hydraulic fracturing stages. The work flow described here empowers decision makers, who no longer wait for hours to collect data or waste hours cleaning and preparing data for analysis.

Molly Smith, Sarah Carr , Huzeifa Ismail

Digital Approach to Operations Management Empowers the Oil Field

Oil & Gas, Operations, Sanchez Oil, SPE

Digital is replacing manual at Sanchez Oil & Gas. Since its implementation in 2017, the company’s Production Maintenance Tracker application has been transforming its operations management by bringing together all the assets, departments, and routes into one hub.

Justin Bender, Khuzema Sunel, Leslie Malone