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owhere offshore are the advantages of “AI” SOLUTION SEEKER more impactful and the market-moving as- Their Web page suggests offshore work?ows and ef?- pects clearer than during the “routine” well- ciency measures can be reined in, digitally. Norway opera- test. Apart from engineers, geologists and tor, OKEA, is using Solution Seeker’s Production Compass

N company execs, even ?nancial analysts are AI software and its data science tools at the Draugen ?eld, in on the scrutiny. We query the latter and ?nd they have where data-driven — and not just “physics-based” — ?ow- yet to consider whether AI production tools — whether rate management is helping ensure better work ?ows and “open API” or “closed” and cloud-based — make a differ- AI adaption elsewhere. Installed is a system of smart, “vir- ence in the bottom line. Perhaps they should. tual-sensor” alarms that notify engineers when data mod-

Provided they have the right stuff, a producer, say, an els indicate noteworthy change, letting them other things. indie, can “tweak” data models as they go on an “open” Draugen’s topside-controlled well tests, once laborious, are

API system. Closed, cloud-based AI may be more regu- simpler for using Solution Seeker’s Well Test app. For its latorily ready. Both can save millions of dollars during a subsea wells, the app enables deduction testing that incurs year of well tests. Asked whether AI will become part of minimal loss when shutting in one well at a time. an oil company’s SGA costs, be crunched as COGM or Stories about AI tend to be a mix of expectation and be chalked up as R&D, our analyst is stumped. Offshore speculation about what AI should be able to do and where operators, too — despite being early AI movers — aren’t it is heading. Our analyst notices that offshore, service sure what to make of offshore AI. companies are pairing control systems with resident appli- “It’s like (doing) magic,” says Solution Seeker data sci- cations. “A lot of it refers to downhole data,” he remarks.

entist, Christine Foss-Sjulstad. “I think very many people At ONS 2024, Solution Seeker promoted their Neu- think AI is a magical tool that ?xes all your problems. So, ral Compass Virtual Flow Meter, or VFM, with its data- getting customers in the mindset that they need some driven methodology enabling timely reservoir and pressure good data to start with is a tough discussion that we need estimates to add to its streamlined production test app and to have. The more data you have, the better the product,” work?ow monitoring, including comms with offshore en- she tells Offshore Engineer on Teams. AI and “expectation gineers. To use the tools, producers need their own data management”, it seems, go hand-in-hand. “solidly structured”.

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