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Hydrocarbon Flow Digital Twin: What is Beyond Calibrating Wells and Network Models ?

Ahmad Shammari

PIPESIM Product Champion at SLB

Session Description
Ahmad Shammari, the driving force behind PIPESIM, the industry’s top multiphase flow simulator. With 20+ years in production engineering and digital oilfield systems, Ahmad’s expertise shines. Formerly at Saudi Aramco for 15 years, he now leads at SLB. At the Oil & Gas Digital Twin Conference 2023, Ahmad shared invaluable insights that we’ll delve into in this blog, highlighting his impactful contributions.

In the world of oil and gas, a game-changing idea called the Hydrocarbon Flow Digital Twin (HFDT) has emerged. Imagine having a virtual copy of an oil or gas production setup that behaves just like the real thing. This is the HFDT. It uses real-time data and smart computer models to show how oil and gas move through wells and pipes. More than just making models match real systems, HFDTs offer a live simulation of what’s happening, helping experts make better decisions quickly.

HFDTs come in different types, from basic spreadsheets to high-tech dashboards. They all rely on models that mimic real-world processes. At the simple end, people use basic models in Excel to figure out some basic stuff. As companies get fancier, they upgrade to more advanced software that uses real data to make better predictions. The coolest thing is that HFDTs are getting smarter thanks to new tech like AI and machine learning. This means they can not only show what’s happening right now but also predict what might happen next. In the coming years, we’ll see HFDTs getting even better, with more gadgets like IoT devices and cloud systems. This could help predict problems before they happen and make oil and gas production even smoother. So, these digital twins are more than just cool tools—they’re shaping the future of how we get energy.

Key Topics
  • “Digital Twin” is a term that gained popularity in the past decade and is currently used by different businesses and organizations around the world to describe a virtual representation of a physical asset by relying on realtime data and/or algorithms to be converted into a form of visualization to replicate the shape, process or behavior of the physical system. Using this definition, we can specifically describe the Hydrocarbon Flow Digital Twin (HFDT) as a virtual representation of the oil and gas production asset utilizing field measurements, real-time data and simulation models to provide a comprehensive real-time simulation of the hydrocarbon flow behavior in wells and pipeline networks
  • Several HFDT solutions are available and used today by different O&G companies; with different levels of granularity, visualization tools, complexity and purpose. However, almost all HFDTs share a common basic foundation: hydraulic simulation models with continuous update and calibration.
  • In this presentation, you will learn the different HFDT types and levels of implementation, starting from an Excel sheet, until the most sophisticated production surveillance dashboard produced by the major O&G NOCs, operators and services companies. What are the basic foundations, insights, challenges and the latest advancements and where is the trend going in the coming decade.

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