# US 12,602,640 B2 · Integrated capacity modelling system

> Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt

- Number: US 12,602,640 B2
- Document ID: US12602640B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 17/264,450
- Filed: 2018-07-31
- Published: 2021-10-07
- Granted: 2026-04-14
- Earliest claimed: 2018-07-31
- Assignees: Abu Dhabi National Oil Company
- Applicants: Abu Dhabi National Oil Company
- Inventors: Hafez H. Hafez; Jamal Nasir Bahamaish; Yousof Al Mansoori; Luigi Saputelli; Alvaro Escorcia; Moataz Khalaf; Richard Mohan
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12602640B2

## CPC

- E21B 43/00: Methods or apparatus for obtaining oil, gas, water, soluble or meltable materials or a slurry of minerals from wells (applicable only to water E03B)
- E21B 41/00: Equipment or details not covered by groups E21B15/00 - E21B40/00
- G01V 20/00: Geomodelling in general
- G06F 30/20: Design optimisation, verification or simulation (optimisation, verification or simulation of circuit designs G06F30/30)
- G06Q 10/06313: {Resource planning in a project environment}
- G06Q 10/06395: {Quality analysis or management}
- G06Q 10/067: Enterprise or organisation modelling
- G06Q 10/103: {Workflow collaboration or project management}
- G06Q 10/40: Business processes related to social networking or social networking services
- G06Q 50/02: Agriculture; Fishing; Forestry; Mining
- E21B 2200/20: Computer models or simulations, e.g. for reservoirs under production, drill bits
- G06Q 10/063: Operations research, analysis or management
- E21B: EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
- G01V: GEOPHYSICS; GRAVITATIONAL MEASUREMENTS; DETECTING MASSES OR OBJECTS; TAGS (means for indicating the location of accidentally buried, e.g. snow-buried, persons A63B29/02)
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)
- G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

## Abstract

An integrated capacity modelling system for monitoring and controlling multiple oil and gas assets, the system comprising a data acquisition module, capable of acquiring upstream data, whereas upstream data may include information from the multiple oil and gas assets; a subsurface and surface processes simulation module, capable of simulating production and injection performance of multiple oil and gas assets from the reservoir to the sales delivery point; a data assimilation module, capable of extracting key features in the data for the purposes of calculating production capacity of multiple oil and gas assets from the acquired upstream data and from the simulation module and for building an asset capacity model thereof; a data presentation module, capable of presenting all the components of the asset capacity model of multiple oil and gas assets, wherein the presentation module is capable of presenting the asset capacity model of multiple oil and gas assets in nodes of a hierarchical structure of a plurality of levels; and a data distribution module, capable of distributing asset capacity of multiple oil and gas assets to multiple users using multiple applications.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An oil and gas system comprising:
oil and gas producing assets and facilities; and
an integrated capacity modelling system monitoring and controlling the oil and gas producing assets and facilities, the integrated capacity modelling system comprising:
a data acquisition module, capable of acquiring upstream data, whereas upstream data includes at least one of subsurface characteristics, well configuration, reservoir fluid, production and injection historical and forecast information from the oil and gas producing assets and facilities;
a subsurface and surface processes simulation module, capable of simulating production and injection performance of multiple oil and gas assets from the reservoir to the sales delivery point;
a data assimilation module, capable of extracting key features in the data for the purposes of calculating production capacity of multiple oil and gas assets from the acquired upstream data and from the simulation module and for building an asset capacity model thereof, whereas the asset capacity model is a hybrid model deriving the production potential, design capacity, production availability and opportunities for compensating production shortfall in the short and mid-term, wherein the asset capacity model is composed of individual models of multiple oil and gas assets and for each relevant material, namely, oil, water and gas and other associated constituents including carbon dioxide, nitrogen (N2), and hydrogen sulfide (H2S);
a data presentation module including a display window, the data presentation module capable of presenting all the components of the asset capacity model of multiple oil and gas assets, wherein the presentation module is capable of presenting the asset capacity model of multiple oil and gas assets in nodes of a hierarchical structure of a plurality of levels on the display window; and
a data distribution module including at least one of a desktop application, a mobile device application, a wire-bound network, and a wireless network, the data distribution module capable of distributing asset capacity of multiple oil and gas assets to multiple users using multiple applications;
wherein the data presentation module is capable of collapsing and expanding the nodes of the asset data of multiple oil and gas assets of a particular level in the asset capacity model to present more general or more detailed asset data.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The oil and gas system according to claim 1, wherein the node is a self-collapsing node.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The oil and gas system according to claim 1, wherein the node represents a single oil and gas well or single equipment, or a group of wells or equipment, or a field or production facility.

### Claim 4

An oil and gas system comprising:
oil and gas producing assets and facilities; and
an integrated capacity modelling system monitoring and controlling the oil and gas producing assets and facilities, the integrated capacity modelling system comprising:
a data acquisition module, capable of acquiring upstream data, whereas upstream data includes one or more of subsurface characteristics, well configuration, reservoir fluid, and production and injection historical and forecast information from the oil and gas producing assets and facilities;
a subsurface and surface processes simulation module, capable of simulating production and injection performance of multiple oil and gas assets from the reservoir to the sales delivery point,
a data assimilation module, capable of extracting key features in the data for the purposes of calculating production capacity of multiple oil and gas assets from the acquired upstream data and from the simulation module and for building an asset capacity model thereof, whereas the asset capacity model is a hybrid model deriving the production potential, design capacity, production availability and opportunities for compensating production shortfall in the short and mid-term, wherein the asset capacity model is composed of individual models of multiple oil and gas assets and for each relevant material, namely, oil, water and gas and other associated constituents including carbon dioxide, nitrogen (N2), and hydrogen sulfide (H2S);
a data presentation module including a display window, the data presentation module capable of presenting all the components of the asset capacity model of multiple oil and gas assets, wherein the presentation module is capable of presenting the asset capacity model of multiple oil and gas assets in nodes of a hierarchical structure of a plurality of levels on the display window; and
a data distribution module including at least one of a desktop application, a mobile device application, a wire-bound network, and a wireless network, the data distribution module capable of distributing asset capacity of multiple oil and gas assets to multiple users using multiple applications;
wherein the subsurface and surface processes simulation module is further capable of calculating the performance and the uncertainty of water cut of multiple oil and gas assets and wherein the data presentation module, is capable of presenting the performance and the uncertainty water cut of multiple oil and gas assets in a hierarchical structure of a plurality of levels.

### Claim 5

An oil and gas system comprising:
oil and gas producing assets and facilities; and
an integrated capacity modelling system monitoring and controlling the oil and gas producing assets and facilities, the integrated capacity modelling system comprising:
a data acquisition module, capable of acquiring upstream data, whereas upstream data may include subsurface characteristics and/or well configuration and/or reservoir fluid and/or production and injection historical and forecast information from the oil and gas producing assets and facilities;
a subsurface and surface processes simulation module, capable of simulating production and injection performance of multiple oil and gas assets from the reservoir to the sales delivery point;
a data assimilation module, capable of extracting key features in the data for the purposes of calculating production capacity of multiple oil and gas assets from the acquired upstream data and from the simulation module and for building an asset capacity model thereof, whereas the asset capacity model is a hybrid model deriving the production potential, design capacity, production availability and opportunities for compensating production shortfall in the short and mid-term, wherein the asset capacity model is composed of individual models of multiple oil and gas assets and for each relevant material, namely, oil, water and gas and other associated constituents including carbon dioxide, nitrogen (N2), and hydrogen sulfide (H2S);
a data presentation module including a display window, the data presentation module capable of presenting all the components of the asset capacity model of multiple oil and gas assets, wherein the presentation module is capable of presenting the asset capacity model of multiple oil and gas assets in nodes of a hierarchical structure of a plurality of levels on the display window; and
a data distribution module including at least one of a desktop application, a mobile device application, a wire-bound network, and a wireless network, the data distribution module capable of distributing asset capacity of multiple oil and gas assets to multiple users using multiple applications;
wherein the data assimilation module is further capable of calculating the performance and the uncertainty of oil-gas ratio of multiple oil and gas assets and wherein the data presentation module, is capable of presenting the performance and the uncertainty of oil-gas ratio of multiple oil and gas assets in a hierarchical structure of a plurality of levels.

### Claim 6

An oil and gas system comprising:
oil and gas producing assets and facilities; and
an integrated capacity modelling system monitoring and controlling the oil and gas producing assets and facilities, the integrated capacity modelling system comprising:
a data acquisition module, capable of acquiring upstream data, whereas upstream data may include subsurface characteristics and/or well configuration and/or reservoir fluid and/or production and injection historical and forecast information from the oil and gas producing assets and facilities;
a subsurface and surface processes simulation module, capable of simulating production and injection performance of multiple oil and gas assets from the reservoir to the sales delivery point;
a data assimilation module, capable of extracting key features in the data for the purposes of calculating production capacity of multiple oil and gas assets from the acquired upstream data and from the simulation module and for building an asset capacity model thereof, whereas the asset capacity model is a hybrid model deriving the production potential, design capacity, production availability and opportunities for compensating production shortfall in the short and mid-term, wherein the asset capacity model is composed of individual models of multiple oil and gas assets and for each relevant material, namely, oil, water and gas and other associated constituents including carbon dioxide, nitrogen (N2), and hydrogen sulfide (H2S);
a data presentation module including a display window, the data presentation module capable of presenting all the components of the asset capacity model of multiple oil and gas assets, wherein the presentation module is capable of presenting the asset capacity model of multiple oil and gas assets in nodes of a hierarchical structure of a plurality of levels on the display window; and
a data distribution module including at least one of a desktop application, a mobile device application, a wire-bound network, and a wireless network, the data distribution module capable of distributing asset capacity of multiple oil and gas assets to multiple users using multiple applications;
wherein the data assimilation module uses hybrid models including a combination of multivariate regressive models with pre-conceived model structures.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The oil and gas system according to claim 1, wherein the data assimilation module establishes asset and node performance by selecting the most suitable production and injection historic and physics-based simulated data, as well as from physical characteristics of elements of the node.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The oil and gas system according to claim 1, wherein the subsurface and surface processes simulation module, automatically represents any determined segment of the production and injection network using the most suitable proxy type and granularity.

### Claim 9

An oil and gas system comprising:
oil and gas producing assets and facilities; and
an integrated capacity modelling system monitoring and controlling the oil and gas producing assets and facilities, the integrated capacity modelling system comprising:
a data acquisition module, capable of acquiring upstream data, whereas upstream data may include subsurface characteristics and/or well configuration and/or reservoir fluid and/or production and injection historical and forecast information from the oil and gas producing assets and facilities;
a subsurface and surface processes simulation module, capable of simulating production and injection performance of multiple oil and gas assets from the reservoir to the sales delivery point;
a data assimilation module, capable of extracting key features in the data for the purposes of calculating production capacity of multiple oil and gas assets from the acquired upstream data and from the simulation module and for building an asset capacity model thereof, whereas the asset capacity model is a hybrid model deriving the production potential, design capacity, production availability and opportunities for compensating production shortfall in the short and mid-term, wherein the asset capacity model is composed of individual models of multiple oil and gas assets and for each relevant material, namely, oil, water and gas and other associated constituents including carbon dioxide, nitrogen (N2), and hydrogen sulfide (H2S);
a data presentation module including a display window, the data presentation module capable of presenting all the components of the asset capacity model of multiple oil and gas assets, wherein the presentation module is capable of presenting the asset capacity model of multiple oil and gas assets in nodes of a hierarchical structure of a plurality of levels on the display window; and
a data distribution module including at least one of a desktop application, a mobile device application, a wire-bound network, and a wireless network, the data distribution module capable of distributing asset capacity of multiple oil and gas assets to multiple users using multiple applications;
wherein the subsurface and surface processes simulation module, automatically updates the reservoir performance parameters using the variation in production and injection resulting from surface equipment downtime, wherein the reservoir performance parameters are provided to the data assimilation module without the need to recur to external simulator.

### Claim 10 (depends on 1)

The oil and gas system according to claim 1, wherein the subsurface and surface processes simulation module, uses a fluid model and/or pseudo-components which are automatically established and tuned for any segment of the production/injection network of the oil and gas producing assets and facilities.

### Claim 11 (depends on 1)

The oil and gas system according to claim 1, wherein the subsurface and surface processes simulation module, possess a self-collapsing node algorithm to model and represent the production and injection performance of multiple oil and gas assets, as applicable to represent current condition or performance, current capacity or future projects, and in response to algorithmic recognition of a set of given conditions in the asset capacity model.

### Claim 12 (depends on 1)

The oil and gas system according to claim 1, wherein the data distribution module, is capable to operate a multiple asset, multiple operating company, multiple products and phases integrated network model to manage and optimize utilization of current and future capacity, having segments of the asset capacity model that are operated by multiple stakeholders under different operating agreements and terms.

### Claim 13 (depends on 1)

The oil and gas system according to claim 1, wherein the subsurface and surface processes simulation module, identifies the segment(s) of the production/injection network in which resource or capacity would be constrained, and does not amend those segments that are not actively affected by new projects.

### Claim 14 (depends on 1)

The oil and gas system according to claim 1, wherein the subsurface and surface processes simulation module, combines proxy representation of segments of the network with algorithms to build topologies to represent new current representation of network segments.

### Claim 15 (depends on 1)

The oil and gas system according to claim 1, wherein the data distribution module, deploys a scenario evaluation capability in the form of a desktop or mobile device application.

### Claim 16 (depends on 1)

The oil and gas system according to claim 1, wherein the data distribution module, provides a standalone application with online connectivity and secure-corporate limited social network integration.

### Claim 17 (depends on 1)

The oil and gas system according to claim 1, wherein the data distribution module, provides a mobile device business application, comprising an algorithmic engine that uses local models, input from the scenarios generated by the subsurface and surface processes simulation module, frequent updates of production and injection data, and inputs from the company's social network interactions from stakeholders.

### Claim 18 (depends on 1)

The oil and gas system according to claim 1, wherein the data distribution module, raises and tracks call-for-actions whenever an exception on the performance is detected by the integrated capacity model system or a production and an injection target need to be changed, for seeking interactions and approval from guided and traceable electronic remote collaboration between relevant stakeholders.

### Claim 19 (depends on 1)

The oil and gas system according to claim 1, wherein the data distribution module, raises and tracks call-for-actions related to poor data and model quality, for seeking interactions and approvals from guided and traceable electronic remote collaboration between relevant stakeholders.