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LEADING OFF West Africa reservoirs and zones, he says, it was pos- decades, provides consistency and excel- drives Chevron’s low decline rates. sible to maximize value by meeting pro- lence across the company, coupled with “A thorough lookback process allows duction specs and managing erosional opportunities generated by surveillance us to continuously learn and increase the velocities in the wells. and monitory and portfolio prioritization value of these activities,” he says.

Given the proliferation of instrumen- tation and improvements in data analyt- ics and automation, Chevron is using a number of technologies to reduce labor- intensive tasks, such as mobile apps for operators, multi-variate determination of process variance from forecasts result- ing in management by exception, and maintenance scheduling based on equip- ment performance measures rather than de? ned intervals. All of these lead to im- provements in production ef? ciency.

“This allows people to sift through data more effectively and connect the

MSC. 402(96) dots,” Kikani says.

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Recently, Chevron has taken best into force Jan. 2020 practices honed over the last few years from factory drilling in the Permian Ba- sin and applied those across the rest of the company, he says. For example, cer- tain processes such as disciplined man-

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Kikani says the reservoir management framework, learned and transferred over

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