Production Surveillance, Flow Assurance, and Intervention Planning

Module 1: Production Surveillance Fundamentals

Purpose of surveillance across wells, networks, flowlines, separators, and export systems

Key production indicators, operating envelopes, constraints, losses, and deferment categories

Surveillance cadence, roles, escalation routes, and decision records

Connecting routine surveillance with medium-term production improvement planning

Module 2: Production Data, Field Measurements, and Operating Context

Using well tests, allocation, pressures, temperatures, rates, choke settings, and fluid samples

Checking data quality, meter reliability, manual readings, sampling practices, and reporting gaps

Capturing operating context such as routing, facility mode, artificial lift status, and recent work

Building a reliable surveillance pack for engineering review and operations meetings

Module 3: Production Decline, Degradation, and Loss Identification

Separating natural decline from equipment limitations, flow restrictions, reservoir changes, and operating decisions

Recognizing degradation from rate trends, pressure response, drawdown, lift behavior, and instability

Classifying losses by wellbore, reservoir, surface network, facility, maintenance, and operational causes

Using loss trees and short interval reviews to prioritize investigation and recovery actions

Module 4: Water Breakthrough, Increasing Water Cut, and Produced Water Challenges

Recognizing water breakthrough indicators from water cut, salinity, pressure behavior, and well test changes

Understanding operational impact on separation, treatment, disposal, corrosion, chemicals, and export quality

Evaluating options such as surveillance sampling, zonal review, choke management, and water control interventions

Coordinating production, reservoir, facilities, and operations responses to rising water production

Module 5: Solids, Sand, Scale, Wax, and Flow Assurance Risks

Identifying sand, scale, wax, hydrate, emulsion, and solids symptoms in wells, lines, and facilities

Interpreting pressure drops, unstable flow, separator behavior, filter changes, erosion signs, and laboratory results

Selecting monitoring, chemical, pigging, cleaning, inspection, and operating response options

Assessing safety, integrity, production, and facility reliability consequences of flow assurance issues

Module 6: Facility Operating Modes, Bottlenecks, and Constraint Management

Understanding how facility modes, equipment availability, routing, compression, separation, and export limits affect production

Identifying bottlenecks across gathering systems, manifolds, separators, pumps, compressors, and utilities

Using constraint registers, operating envelopes, and production scenarios for decision support

Coordinating well and facility settings to reduce deferment without compromising safety or integrity

Module 7: Intervention Planning and Frequency Optimization

Defining intervention triggers for cleaning, stimulation, artificial lift adjustment, water control, and integrity checks

Prioritizing candidates using production gain, risk, readiness, cost, access, and operational windows

Balancing intervention frequency with reliability, deferment recovery, maintenance capacity, and field logistics

Preparing clear intervention scopes, pre-job data packs, success criteria, and post-job reviews

Module 8: Troubleshooting Workflow and Cross-functional Decision Making

Running structured troubleshooting from symptom definition to hypothesis testing and field confirmation

Using production, reservoir, maintenance, operations, and facilities input to avoid narrow diagnosis

Documenting decisions, assumptions, risk controls, and follow-up actions after surveillance reviews

Managing handovers between control room, field teams, engineers, planners, and service providers

Module 9: Practical Case Study Workshop and Production Improvement Action Plan

Working through cases on decline, water breakthrough, solids buildup, facility constraints, and intervention selection

Building a surveillance dashboard checklist and loss review template for asset team use

Developing a prioritized production improvement action plan with owners and verification measures

Reviewing lessons learned and embedding repeatable surveillance routines into asset workflows