Role of Predictive analytics in Asset Optimization in Oil and Gas Industry
In recent times, Predictive analytics has started to play an important role in asset optimization in various industries. One such industry which is highly asset intensive is the oil and gas industry, a capital intensive and equipment heavy industry with lot of scope for improvement in asset management, supply chain network optimization, and operational management with its multiple assets ranging from drilling rigs, wells in the upstream segment to pipelines and refineries.
Asset Optimization: A challenge
The oil and gas industry is important in the sense that it plays an important role in shaping the future of many economies around the world. A quick analysis of the financial statements of the five super-majors (BP, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Shel ) shows that plant, property and equipment on average accounts for 51% of total assets. [1]
Hence proper maintenance, management of the capital assets is highly desirable. These assets are highly costly to design, build, operate and maintain.
Existing oil wells are drying up at an alarming rate, hence making it difficult for companies to cope. It is getting increasingly difficult to find newer sources from where oil can be extracted. In many cases they are deep underground, difficult to drill and distant from companies ' existing sites.
Another challenge facing these industries is that in order to extract oil from these wells, firms need cutting-edge
One of the biggest insights provided by this week's material would be its illumination of the incredible scale of the economic risk taken on by oil companies. In most cases, the risk undertaken by the oil company is far greater than one might assume. So to are the financial gains but these, the text reveals must often come after a great deal of risky investment is made. As the text outlines, the key risks connected to the process of prospecting and drilling for oil are assumed at the outset by private oil firms. The primary text helps to outline these risks, indicating that the geological challenges of drilling, the relative uncertainty related to the capital (i.e. machinery, manpower, etc), the often shifting operational costs and the fluctuating prices of oil on the world market all figure into the risk calculations for a drilling endeavor. (? 20?? p. 8)
Oil is the product that each and every one of us use. It can be used for fuel, heating and even cooking. The most often known for unstable price is crude oil or gasoline. According to the The Economist, The main reason for price shifts of oil is oversupply. The oil production in Saudi rose 10.3 million barrels per day. This increase is the effect of a new method that I being applied to oil extraction. This method is called fracking, fracking is where they drill into tight-rock formations then gradually turning horizontal for several thousand feet more. This results to accommodations to multiple oil wells. This new approved method of oil harvesting has raised the productivity gains and reduced the cost of harvesting oil.
Offshore drilling has become an essential part of today’s oil production and demand for energy. With the growth of population comes the increasing demand for oil. The oil industry today, is one of the most used providers of energy. Today in the 20th century the majority of the population in America has a car and cars needs gas to run. The oil reserves in the earth that are easily accessible via land are starting to run dry and are becoming harder to find. This is why we have begun to see more and more offshore oil drills. Although there are benefits of offshore drilling such as profit, lower gas prices, and becoming less dependent on foreign oil. There are also many drawbacks in which if something were to go wrong, the mistake would be catastrophic impacting the environment, the nature, and have trickling effects all around the world.
Petroleum engineers have a future full of challenges and opportunities. They must develop and apply new technology to recover hydrocarbons from oil shale, tar sands, and offshore oil and gas fields. They must also devise new techniques to recover oil left in the ground after application of conventional producing techniques.
Since energy is outfit to do work is generally discharged as warmth, sound, light, or other hopeless structures, people should continually renew our energy source to keep our machines running. The time of uncommon development beginning with the mechanical upheaval was just made conceivable by tapping the planet's tremendous stores of energy. This framework is naturally unsustainable on the grounds that we devour fills far quicker than the planet can recharge them. In the previous decade or somewhere in the vicinity there has been any genuine talk of coming to top creation of these energy sources. Since the extraction of these fills itself requires fuel, the profits must be more noteworthy than the measure of energy contributed. As oil wells achieve their crest, oil no more openly gushes out of the ground. It turns out to be progressively troublesome and costly to draw to the
Oil can be categorized into two categories, conventional and unconventional. Convenional oil is extracted via straightforward vertically drilled wells inland and offshore from oil pools. Globally the conventional oil production is on the decline. Unconventional oil is extracted from pourous shale rock formations, that act like sponges and soak up oil, making it more difficult to extract. Methods of extraction include horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Due to the complexity in prodcution, unconventional methods are more costly than conventional ones. Currently unconventional
Our society runs on oil. It powers our cars, planes and trains, it’s used to build our workplaces and homes, even forming the plastics of our children’s toys, cell phones, and even the very laptop that this essay was typed on. But, oil is not an unlimited resource. As our society’s needs for oil keep growing and growing, the need for more of this oil to be extracted from the earth also increases, leading to new and complex ways of extracting oil. Fracking, tar sand extraction, and offshore oil rigs are all technologies developed solely to fuel our society’s ever-growing demand for petroleum products. However, sometimes the pressure of demand is so strong on the developers of these methods
As anything there is always a decision having to be made, but in the petroleum industry, decision-making can be very convoluted. Reason being is because in the past couple of years a considerable amount of approaches to fix things have arisen. Said by Review, “The difference between a good decision and a bad one can be the difference between success and disaster, profit and loss, or even life and death.” Before making any critical choices always be sure to have a strategic plan that will follow though to the best end result. As some observations have shown, is that the choice of oil and gas relates to prices as well as cash flow in this industry. A key factor for companies is strategically making wise choices on what oil, gas and companies to make investments in.
ExxonMobil is known as one of the world 's largest companies by revenue, and the second largest publicly traded company by market capitalization. The company was ranked number six globally in Forbes Global list in 2014. ExxonMobil 's capital were approx 23 billion BOE (barrels of oil equivalent) at the end of two-thousand thirteen. With more than 35 oil refineries in 21 countries form combining daily refining capacity of 6.3 million barrels. This research will focus on the financial side for ExxonMobil, competitors, presumption ExxonMobil future situation, and recommendations for prospective investors to have more awareness about the oil stock market.
Drilling for oil is risky business and what makes it worthwhile is the payoff. To put it simply fossil fuels, oil and its distillates remain to be the lifeblood flowing through the veins of a highly industrialized and demanding modern industry. Transportation, Power Generation, Manufacturing, Motorsport, our very lives depend on oil.
Traditionally, large drills are used to extract crude oil from the ground or in offshore deposits. With these techniques, large amounts of crude oil has been left untouched because it was uneconomical to attempt to retrieve the oil. But, with new techniques such as hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, it can now become more efficient for companies to go
The most essential donors to the world 's aggregate oil production are the giant oil fields. Utilizing a complete database of giant oil field production, the normal decrease rates of the world 's giant oil fields are evaluated. Dividing subclasses was essential, since there are expansive contrasts in the middle of area and seaward fields, and also between non-OPEC and OPEC fields. The advancement of decrease rates over past decades incorporates the effect of new innovations and production procedures and unmistakably demonstrates that the normal decay rate for individual giant fields is expanding with time. These components have huge ramifications
In spite of the significant capital investments in the industry, meeting the increasing global demand requires implementation of the emerging technologies in the oil and gas industry. In other words, efficiency of the exploration and development of new resources needs to be dramatically improved in the next two decades [4]. High risks associated with adoption of innovative technologies has slowed down the rate of research and development in oil industry [5]. A review of the role of research and development in various sectors of technology reveals that upstream oil industry needs a higher
There are numerous publications concerning energy innovation and the forecast in the gas and oil development and demand. For example, the resent issue of “The Wall Street Journal” published May 22, 2017 a special report titled: “innovation in Energy” with subsection “Get Ready for Oi Demand”. Almost all publications including in the WSJ are not addressing the innovations and developments in the oil and gas exploration from the conventional inland oil and gas wells. To improve the productivity in the conventional wells, the exploration industry mainly relies on the Enhancing Oil Recovery methods (EOR). Currently the popular method (about 60%) of all methods is using flooding the oil fields with CO2. Although the EOR methods are raising
The numerous leaks in the oil reservoirs have threatened the oil manufacturing industries. The manufacturing sectors do find themselves