The typical timeline from reserves discovery to first production can be lengthy, delaying positive cash flow and tying up capital. Engineering requirements, supply chain constraints, and change orders can compound throughout facility development, extending construction and commissioning schedules and ultimately pushing out first oil and gas and managing water processing requirements.
SLB provides a flexible, modular approach to accelerate the path to production and debottleneck your existing assets. Designed to meet applicable international standards and customer and regulatory requirements, modules can be selected and configured to your field and processing needs.
This modular approach enables you to fast-track production schedules and deploy production capacity in greenfield and brownfield solutions when and where it is needed—generating early cash flow sooner.
Flexible, modular early production facilities can help make smaller reserve accumulations economically viable without the investment required for traditional permanent production facilities.
As production requirements change, modular capacity can also be added temporarily or permanently to existing production systems. This enables you to adapt capacity throughout the life of the field rather than designing permanent infrastructure around a peak production and/or changes on the production profile and water production rate that may only be required for a limited period.
Enabled production of 10,000 bbl/d while the permanent 160,000-bbl/d production facility was under construction. Early production generated positive cash flow to help finance and sustain ongoing and future field development.
Produced 10 million bbl in three years, generating crude sales to help finance and sustain continued field development. Maintained 96% operational uptime despite its remote mountainous location and harsh weather conditions.
Compact modules characteristic of the early production facility have minimized delays related to equipment acquisition, transport logistics, and setup, enabling the project to be fast-tracked and completed in 11 months. Operational capacity has increased 200% to process 35 Mbbl/d fluid containing 20 Mbbl/d water, which satisfies the drilling and production commitment.
Project timelines vary, but early production facilities can accelerate the path to first production. In Indonesia, we enabled 10,000 bbl/d of initial production in less than 5 months while a permanent facility targeting 160,000 bbl/d was under development. In Ecuador, a standardized modular approach enabled completion of a remote production facility in 11 months.
We connect subsurface understanding with surface processing from facility design through operations. Depending on project requirements, this can include engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, operations, and maintenance, with the facility configured around reservoir characteristics, produced fluids, production targets, and required outlet specifications.
Our digitally connected production facilities combine reservoir understanding with data analytics, process modeling, and automation. This helps manage changing production conditions, maintain flow assurance and required export quality, and optimize production and recovery throughout the life of the field.
Production facilities can be configured with oil treatment, gas treatment, produced water treatment, and seawater treatment technologies according to fluid properties, treatment requirements, and outlet specifications. These capabilities can be integrated into a fit-for-purpose facility based on the needs of the asset. The wording here deliberately matches the actual SLB processing and separation of taxonomy rather than introducing more detailed technologies from separate product pages.
We use reservoir characterization and production requirements to develop a fit-for-purpose, reservoir-integrated facility design. The facility can be optimized for targeted production rates, fluid and effluent conditions, recovery objectives, and export quality requirements, with operations adjusted as field conditions change.
