Production Enhancement
Enhance Production—Optimize Operational Efficiencies—Reduce Costs
Assign your company's production optimization challenges to A&A, and let the high-level, seasoned production, completions, facilities, and chemistry consultants of the A&A Consulting Team design the strategies that enhance production, improve operational efficiency, and reduce costs, across the life of your asset.
Avasthi & Associates, Inc. (A&A) is an independent petroleum engineering consulting firm. A&A does not sell completion equipment, artificial lift systems, oilfield chemicals, corrosion-control products, or process/facilities equipment — our only business is expert technical consulting, which means our production-optimization recommendations are never influenced by a stake in any particular vendor, chemical, or technology.
The high-level, seasoned production consultants of the A&A Consulting Team have extensive experience developing oil & gas production strategies to help clients increase overall asset-wide production. We develop flexible design and production models with look-ahead capability for the entire asset, incorporating the long-term effects of both reservoir decline and investment in new facilities.
Our production consultants — with extensive experience in production operations — are available to work on our clients' mature oil & gas field revitalization projects, around the world, and to conduct the necessary studies described below.
Field Production Enhancement/Optimization
Enhanced production can begin at any time during the productive life of an oil reservoir, and can be achieved through a variety of methods, including fracturing and acidizing, sand control, coiled tubing, hydraulic workover, and pipeline and process changes.
Using state-of-the-art technologies, our experienced consultants design, diagnose, and solve production problems, to increase oil & gas well performance and maximize reserves.
Oil & gas field production enhancement/optimization studies conducted by our professional, experienced production consultants include, but are not limited to:
• Field-, region-, and pattern-level production analysis, to identify areas of bypassed oil and infill-drilling opportunities
• Well-by-well production analysis, to identify workover opportunities (stimulations, recompletions, sidetracks, revamps, coiled-tubing jobs, and sand control, among others)
• Changes to production systems, to improve oil & gas flows
• Nodal analysis: creating IPR and outflow curves, and performing sensitivities to predict productivity improvements (using PROSPER, WEM, WellFlo, Perform, PIPESIM, and other commonly used software)
• Well economics and cash-flow analysis, using commonly used economic-analysis software
To put our experienced field production enhancement/optimization consultants to work on your projects, around the world, please Contact Us.
Completion Design & Optimization
Well completion is a critical interface between the productive formation and the wellbore. An effective completion maintains the mechanical integrity of the borehole without creating significant restrictions on the well's flow capacity.
Our consultants design optimal completions — engineered for the life of your oil or gas well — that lower production costs, lengthen reservoir life, and optimize hydrocarbon recovery. Completion design and optimization studies conducted by our high-level, seasoned completion consultants include, but are not limited to:
• Design of sand-control completions (frac packs and gravel packs)
• Horizontal and intelligent completions
• Design of production strings
• Artificial-lift design and evaluation
• Deepwater and high-pressure/high-temperature (HP/HT) production and completion studies
• Design of completions, workovers, and surveillance programs in extreme-deviation and tight-tolerance oil & gas wells, onshore or offshore
To put our experienced completion design and optimization consultants to work on your projects, around the world, please Contact Us.
Facilities Rationalization
Using industry-leading simulation and optimization tools, our consultants provide clients with integrated field-development and -planning solutions, for enterprise-wide asset visibility and control over production systems. From facility design to full-scale asset and portfolio management, we provide optimal process designs that drive operational excellence and maximize profitability.
Facilities rationalization studies conducted by our professional, experienced facilities and production consultants include, but are not limited to:
• Pipeline and flow-line modeling studies (using PIPEPHASE, PIPESIM, HYSYS, PRO/II, ASPEN Plus, and CHEMCAD software)
• Simulation of surface-facilities networks, using PIPESIM or other commonly used software
• Evaluation and optimization of gas-compression and operating strategies for gas fields
• Recommendation of changes to surface facilities (pipeline sizes, compressor reallocation, pumps, and separators)
To put our experienced facilities rationalization consultants to work on your projects, around the world, please Contact Us.
Well Stimulation
Well stimulation — interventions performed on an oil or gas well to increase production by improving the flow of hydrocarbons from the drainage area into the wellbore — can restore or significantly enhance the productivity of a well.
Well stimulation studies conducted by our production consultants, in support of production optimization, include, but are not limited to:
• Fracturing-stimulation design for production enhancement
• Matrix acidizing
• Scale-control studies
• Sanding and wellbore-stability analysis, to protect the productive interval
Related A&A Service: For A&A's full range of fracturing-stimulation, subsurface-waste-disposal, and other rock-mechanics consulting services — including laboratory and field-trial support, fracturing-simulator evaluation, and joint-industry research — please see our Geomechanics Consulting
To put our experienced well stimulation consultants to work on your projects, around the world, please Contact Us.
Artificial Lift Systems
Artificial lift is increasing in use, as mature oilfields decline in productivity, as newer oil fields require the introduction of artificial lift sooner, as improvements in oilfield-management practice become more widely deployed and more rapidly adopted, and as oil volumes pumped increase with the application of improved/enhanced IOR/EOR technologies.
Our consultants design the right system to ensure better control of lifting costs and oil production. Artificial-lift studies conducted by our professional, experienced production consultants include, but are not limited to:
• Determination of the suitability of artificial-lift methods
• Artificial-lift design (gas lift, progressive-cavity pump (PCP), rod pump, hydraulic pump, and electrical submersible pump (ESP))
• Gas-lift allocation/optimization studies
• Recommendation of design changes to problematic artificial-lift systems
To put our experienced artificial lift systems consultants to work on your projects, around the world, please Contact Us.
Oilfield Chemistry/Chemical
A focused, informed approach to oilfield chemistry means fewer false starts, less testing, optimized products, and better performance. Our consultants provide the most advanced oilfield chemistry available today, specifically tailored to the needs of your operation.
Oilfield chemistry/chemical studies conducted by our professional, experienced consultants include, but are not limited to:
• Producing and transporting high-pour-point waxy crude oils
• Selecting optimum elastomers for use in CO2, H2S, or other toxic environments in drilling and production operations
• Selecting optimum membranes for gas separation in oil & gas production operations
• Matrix acidizing
• Applications of polymers, surfactants, and detergents in oilfield operations
To put our experienced oilfield chemistry/chemical consultants to work on your projects, around the world, please Contact Us.
Corrosion
Corrosion can have serious consequences, including waste of valuable resources, loss or contamination of product, reduced efficiency, and costly maintenance — even plant shutdowns.
Corrosion studies conducted by our professional, experienced corrosion and chemical consultants include, but are not limited to:
• Developing solutions to corrosion problems in oil & gas field operations and pipelines — designing and implementing corrosion control/management systems, and developing and applying corrosion-related inspection methodology
• Corrosion studies of CO2-flood projects
• Corrosion studies of pipelines — failure analysis, mechanical and metallurgical evaluation, and intelligent-pig inspection and interpretation
• Pipeline corrosion-simulation studies (using PIPEPHASE, PIPESIM, HYSYS, PRO/II, ASPEN Plus, and CHEMCAD software)
• Providing corrosion control/management training to clients' staff
To put our experienced corrosion consultants to work on your projects, around the world, please Contact Us.
Gas Processing
Our gas-processing consultants help clients ensure that gas produced during oil & gas production is processed efficiently to meet pipeline specifications for purity, temperature, and pressure — so it can be brought safely and profitably to market.
Gas-processing studies conducted by our professional, experienced gas-processing and chemical consultants include, but are not limited to:
• Gas-processing facilities design, simulation, and related studies
• Review, modification, and drafting of regulations for gas processing, storage, and transportation
• Process-modeling studies (using PIPEPHASE, PIPESIM, HYSYS, PRO/II, ASPEN Plus, and CHEMCAD software)
To put our experienced gas processing and chemical consultants to work on your projects, around the world, please Contact Us.
What A&A Delivers
A production optimization engagement with the A&A Consulting Team is built around the practical decisions your company needs to make, including, but not limited to:
• A production-optimization strategy: backed by field-, region-, and well-level analysis
• Completion, artificial-lift, and stimulation designs: matched to your well's specific needs
• Facilities and pipeline recommendations: to raise throughput and cut operating costs
• Oilfield-chemistry, corrosion-control, and gas-processing solutions: tailored to your operation
• Presentation-ready recommendations: for your company's management, partners, and investors
To put the high-level, seasoned production, completions, facilities, and chemistry consultants of the A&A Consulting Team to work on your company's challenging production optimization projects, around the world, please contact us (Contact@AvasthiConsulting.com) or click here.
