Production and well integrity engineers working with oil & gas wells must balance two things on a knife-edge.
They’ve got risk on one hand and production on the other. They're under intense pressure to get the balance right. Living with a chronic sense of unease has been their normal for as long as they can remember.
Until now, they’ve just had to accept it. But that’s no longer the case. There’s a completely new approach. One that means you can strike a perfect balance – and escape the pressure and sense of unease. That’s what you get with Empirica.
Empirica is well risk modelling and integrity management software. It is designed so engineers see and understand risks associated with oil leaks and gas emissions.
Thousands of barrels a day safeguarded
Analytical risk modelling, in-house, for well design and operations
There’s over 100,000 ways that a typical well can leak, though it is impossible to manually analyse more than a handful of leak paths. Wells Quantitative Risk Assessments can take an age to do and the static answers they give are of limited use.
Running complex scenario analysis live, even during risk assessment meetings, is now a reality with Empirica. Get consistent and detailed results in seconds. Have confidence your assessment considers the entire well. Enjoy a level of scrutiny with leak path analysis capability in Empirica that you cannot do manually. Do all of this with your team in-house, without the need for specialist, expensive and time-consuming consultancy studies.
Clear visualisation of risk with dynamic well barrier diagrams
Communicate the condition of wells effectively with intuitive and dynamic functional Well Barrier Diagrams. Take important information to management that was previously inaccessible. The chronic unease that your management felt about the condition of your wells will go. Reduction of well issues, lower risks, better uptime and higher production volumes will be your proof. Even your boss will get recognition for recovering lost production that could be worth millions of dollars annually.
Use Empirica to strike the right balance between safety and production to protect people, the environment and your company.
Understand the risks of well issues, and actions to address them, before they happen
Eliminate decision time for well issues. Get management approval for action plans, before any failures occur. Explain and illustrate a clear, logical methodology that demystifies what you do. Routine anomalies are dealt with efficiently, with decisions made at a lower level, including whether to continue to operate a well or shut it in. When you use Empirica, risk assessments are already done for the vast majority of well issues, so you spend much less time on well integrity risk assessments and failure management.
Be demonstrably in control of well risks. Know your wells are safe, and what to do when they are not. Your production operations team will be happy that they receive decisions quickly and with authority. Even the HSE department and regulators show more confidence in you and reduce their level of scrutiny.
Impacts on your business
Thousands of barrels a day of production safeguarded, worth tens of million of dollars a year. This is production that would otherwise have been lost while analysing problems after they occur.
Reduce costs by millions of dollars a year because you are better at planning maintenance and repairs, with fewer surprises and changes of plan. The likelihood of major incidents is reduced because you have much better understanding and control of risk. Close wells in when it is necessary based on precise analysis. Continue to operate wells that are below specific risk thresholds that you can clearly explain and justify.
Your reputation with regulators can be improved as they trust what you do. Your well risk management will be seen as best in class by your peer companies. Your team can apply their expertise to large well stocks with consistent results.
Accessible analysis
understand well risks as they change
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Visualise the risks, justify your decisions
Every leak path is broken down precisely. You see the specific pressure source, well barrier elements and leak-point. It means you don't have to rely on subjective judgement, rules of thumb and gut feel. It's easier to tell the story and justify the decisions and recommendations you make.
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Get answers instantly with powerful leak path analysis
There’s over 100,000 potential leak paths in a typical well. You can have the analytics power to assess every one of these. Instead of a best guess, you get an objective assessment of the entire risk and barrier compliance status of your well. Your team can do this in-house, and quickly.
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Know what actions to take, when you need them
You can get action plans automatically served up for almost any problem that hits you. By building pre-emptive risk assessments you understand all failures before they occur, with mitigating actions to reduce their impact. It means you can make swift, assured decisions right when you need them.
Visualise the risks, justify your decisions
Every leak path is broken down precisely. You see the specific pressure source, well barrier elements and leak-point. It means you don't have to rely on subjective judgement, rules of thumb and gut feel. It's easier to tell the story and justify the decisions and recommendations you make.
Every leak path is broken down precisely. You see the specific pressure source, well barrier elements and leak-point. It means you don't have to rely on subjective judgement, rules of thumb and gut feel. It's easier to tell the story and justify the decisions and recommendations you make.
Get answers instantly with powerful leak path analysis
There’s over 100,000 potential leak paths in a typical well. You can have the analytics power to assess every one of these. Instead of a best guess, you get an objective assessment of the entire risk and barrier compliance status of your well. Your team can do this in-house, and quickly.
There’s over 100,000 potential leak paths in a typical well. You can have the analytics power to assess every one of these. Instead of a best guess, you get an objective assessment of the entire risk and barrier compliance status of your well. Your team can do this in-house, and quickly.
Know what actions to take, when you need them
You can get action plans automatically served up for almost any problem that hits you. By building pre-emptive risk assessments you understand all failures before they occur, with mitigating actions to reduce their impact. It means you can make swift, assured decisions right when you need them.
You can get action plans automatically served up for almost any problem that hits you. By building pre-emptive risk assessments you understand all failures before they occur, with mitigating actions to reduce their impact. It means you can make swift, assured decisions right when you need them.
