RE: where's Adoubleuk ?2 May 2020 13:43
londoner7
"I said, "if the water cut from 7z continues above the FPSO handling ability. "
I should have said, "if the water cut rises above the FPSO handling ability"
And, to adoubleuk's later point, when I refer to 'current configuration', I'm referring to the choke settings."
Ah, was it yourself asking that stuff on the Q & A?
If so, I really must go back and listen to it again... Because the questioner always has to reveal their name and company.
However, me ol' sunshine, I'll tell you why that line of questioning struck me as totally daft and displaying a complete lack of knowledge of the setup.
There's some complicated and expensive kit in use out there, WoS. But essentially the principles are the same as some land-field well in the jungle. Except you don't instruct an operator to go out in his Toyota to tweak a choke-setting on a particular well, and maybe an associated one, and then take flow measurement data over a few days. And send the data to the engineers in town by fax. (Though the fax days have gone.)
Instead, it's done remotely by someone in the AM's control-room, via umbilical to the 'subsea tree manifold', almost instantaneously. But there are other chokes (remotely controlled) on the FPSO itself.
What takes time is the data-gathering, (as in any good experiment), waiting to see over a period of time the change you've made has made, number-crunching it, and so on. Before sending your operator out amongst the wildlife again to make another change in the choke-setting.
In between all of this, and more importantly, reverting to 'our' share, is that the company, via its CEO and the BoD, is still confidently anticipated production for this year to be 18,000 bbl oil / day, inclusive of possible 10% 'surface downtime' . ie 20,000 bopd, if no downtime.
And irrespective of 'choke-settings'.
But I'm just a common-or garden drilling-hand, not a 'production person'. Once the well's handed over to 'production', I've done my job, and don't care what happens downstream of the wellhead, and by inference don't understand it anyway...
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