Physics-Informed AI
Simulation-quality insight with the speed and flexibility of AI
Physics-informed AI is a breakthrough hybrid model building technique, that fuses physics-based simulation and process data.
OptiFlow
Production assurance solutions
Overview
You can make transformative improvements to your production performance using our OptiFlow™ production assurance solutions. Built with next-generation technology, they unify reservoirs, wells, and networks into a single intelligent ecosystem that delivers real-time optimization, predictive intelligence, and seamless operational integration across the entire production system.
Infused with SLB flow assurance and wellsite expertise, and decades of digital oilfield development for unmatchable know-how, OptiFlow solutions also leverage AI in several forms: Data-driven AI, generative AI, physics-informed AI. All this combines with advanced simulators to provide invaluable contextualized insights from day one. Users see a unified view of the production system, enabling continuous surveillance, proactive optimization, and improved decision quality.
Advanced production assurance:
- Simplify complex production challenges by integrating multi-domain data, engineering models, expert workflows, and digital twins.
- Facilitate modular, scalable solutions that dynamically adapt to changing field conditions.
- Enable fast implementation and deliver immediate operational value.
Connecting wells to facilities
OptiFlow solutions integrate with our OptiSite™ facility, equipment and pipeline solutions to create a unified offering connecting production assurance insights of reservoirs, wells and networks with facility, equipment and pipeline data. Freeing teams from barriers and silos empowers them to make decisions and look for fresh opportunities from a holistic, real-time view of their operations.
Underpinned by the power of Lumi
The cutting-edge capabilities of the OptiFlow solutions are underpinned by the Lumi™ operations data foundation—leveraging advanced industrial data operations capabilities. The Lumi platform unifies subsurface and operations, reducing data fragmentation, accelerating AI deployment, and enabling trusted, enterprise-scale decision-making across the energy value chain.
Enhanced by Tela™
OptiFlow solutions are further enhanced by engaging the Tela™ agentic-AI assistant. Tela acts as a digital teammate, understanding operational context, anticipating needs, and proactively addressing challenges—whether that’s predicting electrical submersible pump (ESP) failures or optimizing energy consumption. By operating in a continuous loop of observing, planning, generating, acting, and learning, Tela helps streamline operations and drive smarter outcomes.
Applications
Shaped by decades of SLB experience in flow simulation, digital oilfield deployment, and production optimization, OptiFlow solutions turn deep industry knowledge into practical value that elevates performance across every part of the production system.
Production surveillance and optimization
Monitoring production systems with physics-driven AI to enable proactive optimization.
- Continuous production surveillance leveraging advanced AI and edge intelligence for deeper operational insight.
- Full production system and digital production optimization using physics-informed and data driven models.
- Closed-loop workflows across cloud and edge help drive continuous improvement and real-time operational impact.
Learn more: Production surveillance and optimization | SLB
Multiphase flow modeling
Solving complex flow challenges with advanced physics modeling and physics-informed AI.
- Industry standard multiphase flow simulation with continuous, automated model updates.
- Evergreen model management ensuring high-fidelity predictions over asset life.
- Broad physics-based and physics-informed model library for SLB and third-party applications.
Learn more: Multiphase flow modeling | SLB
Production chemistry
Ensuring uninterrupted flow by integrating physics-based risk modeling with optimized chemical injection.
- Detects scale, corrosion, wax, asphaltenes, and hydrate risks ahead of time with physics-based risk modeling.
- Continuously optimizes chemical injection using real-time data and autonomous control loops.
- Integrates seamlessly with customer systems, connected equipment, and virtual flow meters for minute-level intelligence.
Learn more: Production chemicals optimization on Delfi | SLB
Intelligent completions
Enhancing intelligent completions performance with actionable insights.
- Provides actionable insights for managing water/gas breakthrough and zonal performance
- Estimates flow rate per zone and evaluates zonal productivity indices and drainage patterns.
- Advises optimal valve positions using digital twin simulations and scenario analysis.
- Supports continuous optimization through physics-informed models and adaptive recommendations.
Learn more: Intelligent completions and smart well technology | SLB
Production intervention
Automating petroleum diagnostics into a continuously evolving register of actionable interventions.
- Automates petroleum engineering diagnostics into a continuously updated intervention register.
- Uses standardized, biasfree workflows for consistent candidate selection across assets.
- Applies physics-based hydraulics modeling to quantify expected uplift and intervention viability.
- Leverages decades of engineering knowledge through AI-enabled, transparent screening logic.
Learn more: Production intervention | SLB
Benefits
C-suite and executive managers
Enterprise-wide insights that improve production performance, competitiveness, and cost efficiency.
Asset or operations managers
Optimize production, efficiency, and operational costs through ahead-of-time visibility.
Digital transformation of IT managers
Scalable, integrated, open and agnostic digital platforms aligned with business strategy.
Operations/surveillance engineers
Contextualized, connected field data and intelligent insights by agentic AI enabling faster, more accurate decisions.
Production/flow assurance engineers
Predictive, physics-informed insights for early detection and optimized flow.
Solutions architects/data scientists
Scalable analytics foundation delivering advanced, actionable intelligence.
Benefits of this shared view include:
Complete E&P cycle integration—design, operate and optimize.
End-to-end and modular workflows across reservoirs, wells, and networks.
Immediate access to contextualized information and enriched workflows
Powered by data-driven AI, generative AI, and physics-informed insights.
Fast deployment and adoption through open, agnostic, and scalable design.
Boost operational efficiency across teams through streamlined and collaborative operations.
Features
Enhance operational efficiency with OptiFlow solutions.
Our AI-powered production assurance solutions help you achieve continuous surveillance, optimized well-network flow, and scalable performance across your assets.
- Integrated, end-to-end production workflows unifying reservoirs, wells, and networks for a connected production system view.
- Continuous production surveillance and optimization using data driven AI, generative AI, and physics informed AI for proactive decisions.
- Digital twins and advanced simulators provide predictive flow insights, early detection, and dynamic response to field changes.
- Contextualized, multidomain data improving situational awareness, clearer insights and faster, more informed operational decisions.
- Modular, scalable workflows support rapid deployment, minimal disruptions, and immediate operational value.
- Automated and AI-assisted operational support via Tela™ for continuous observation, planning, action, and learning across production operations.
- Predictive intelligence improving flow assurance and equipment performance, including early failure prediction and digital flow optimization.
- Connected, real-time insights that help teams boost output, reduce variability, and improve decision speed and confidence.
- Solution-building environment, that is simple to adopt and accessible to all.
- Support from subject matter experts (SMEs) in production operations, optimization, and digital oilfield workflows.
Dive deeper
Multiphase flow modeling
Production system engineering, planning, and operations for wells and flowline networks with dynamic and steady-state flow simulation
Production system engineering, planning, and operations for wells and flowline networks.
Production surveillance and optimization
Condition based monitoring and prediction of production performance that can trigger notifications, alerts, and push relevant information needed to make decisions faster
Condition based monitoring and prediction of production performance.
Production intervention
Automated production operations best practices that deliver actionable decisions
Automated production operations best practices that deliver actionable decisions.
Flow assurance and production webinar series
Join and upcoming webinar or watch on-demand
The webinars aim to offer short, high quality educational insights for users of the Olga dynamic multiphase flow simulator and the Pipesim steady-state multiphase flow simulator.
