By moving to Directed Work, you start working, driven by operations by exception. By using Smart Alarms and Smart Events, feeding off of your consolidated field data, you continually tune your balance between preventative maintenance, facility health check visits, and condition monitoring. Your condition monitoring will be driven and managed by your smart alarms and smart events, and include the use of health states and operating modes.
Thousands or millions of miles and kilometers can be saved, also known as Operator/Pumper “windshield time”, by not having to go to each well or pad each day. And the time spent on site can be focused on the tasks needing to be done, if you focus on your EXCEPTIONS and site OPERATIONAL RISK.
This can be done by integrating an effective preventative and conditional maintenance program and work orders with SCADA field data, and then using SMART alarms and events to prioritize daily work.
SMART Alarms and Events are combinations of equations with conditions in them and the ability, once your field data is consolidated, to “look across sites”.
You can look “across” a pipe and check pressure and volume along the pipe or at each ends or you can get the source pump status on a line to validate an expected or unexpected drop in tubing pressure or you can integrate netback and power consumption to determine “that exception can wait for a few days”.
