Recovery express – Monitoring and surveillance
De-risk enhanced recovery with integrated monitoring and surveillance
Monitoring and surveillance is a comprehensive, modular, and integrated solution designed to de-risk enhanced recovery (ER) projects across their lifecycle.
It empowers customer teams—from subsurface to field operations—to make confident decisions by providing assurance at every stage: candidate selection, pilot execution, and field expansion, and accelerate value creation.
Operators face uncertainty in well integrity, inconclusive pilot results, and challenges in scaling ER projects. Monitoring and surveillance addresses these with proven surveillance workflows, expert insights, and scalable digital tools—delivering measurable uplift in production and reserves, while optimizing infrastructure use.
With a track record of production impact and increasing recovery factor, Monitoring and surveillance helps operators unlock untapped reserves efficiently and confidently.
Whether you're planning, piloting, or expanding, Monitoring and surveillance ensures your ER strategy is built on clarity, speed, and value.
Challenges we help you solve
Candidate integrity uncertainty
Operators often struggle to confirm wellbore integrity and injectivity, which are critical for selecting suitable candidates for enhanced recovery (ER) processes.
Monitoring and surveillance addresses this by integrating wireline diagnostics and rigless interventions to assess and validate well integrity early in the process. This ensures only technically sound wells are selected, reducing risk and improving project viability.
Inconclusive pilot results
Without integrated surveillance and timely data interpretation, pilot projects may fail to provide actionable insights, delaying or jeopardizing field expansion.
Monitoring and surveillance solves this by providing a structured surveillance plan tailored to ER project types, supported by digital tools (e.g. machine learning agents and simulation models) that detect deviations and guide timely adjustments. This ensures pilot results are decisive and scalable.
Challenges in capturing value and scaling
As ER projects scale, misalignment between operations and expected outcomes can hinder value creation and waste resources.
Monitoring and surveillance aids value capture by integrating technologies that monitor performance, troubleshoot issues, and optimize recovery strategies. It synchronizes field practices with recovery goals, optimizing infrastructure use and reserve replacement.
Fragmented decision making
Divergent short-term operations and mid-term recovery goals can jeopardize project success, especially when surveillance infrastructure is underdeveloped or inconsistently applied.
Monitoring and surveillance bridges this gap by offering a unified framework that connects subsurface insights with field execution. Its scalable digital workflows and expert support promote consistent decision making across teams and project phases.
Value we create
Monitoring and surveillance creates value by enhancing confidence, accelerating decisions, and maximizing returns across ER projects.
It de-risks candidate selection through integrity validation, ensures pilot results are conclusive with integrated surveillance, and enables scalable field expansion aligned to operational goals.
By leveraging digital workflows, expert insights, and proven technologies, Monitoring and Surveillance helps operators unlock incremental production, improve reserve replacement, and optimize infrastructure use—all while maintaining competitive unit development costs (UDC).
The result is faster time-to-value, reduced uncertainty, and more efficient recovery strategies.
Why choose SLB
As a global technology leader, SLB brings together the industry’s most comprehensive recovery portfolio—spanning subsurface characterization, digital enablement, and full-field EOR deployment. Our Monitoring and surveillance solution unites multidisciplinary expertise, advanced digital workflows, and field-proven technologies to deliver measurable results with speed, precision, and reliability.
Why we lead the way
- Integrated expertise
Multidisciplinary teams combining reservoir, production, and facilities specialists to deliver fully coordinated, end-to-end optimization. - Digital tools and intelligent workflows
Advanced modeling, monitoring, and analytics platforms enable real-time decision making and continuous performance improvement. - Extensive field service portfolio
Access the industry’s broadest range of subsurface and surface technologies to support every phase—from diagnostics to execution. - Global reach, local delivery
With operations in more than 100 countries, we bring the right expertise and resources to every project—wherever your assets are located. - Proven project execution
Decades of experience managing complex, multi-disciplinary projects, with flexible partnership and commercial models that ensure safe, efficient, and predictable outcomes.
