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Do you struggle to optimize your well’s production performance (naturally or artificially lifted)?
IHS software applications can help you maximize your production, from wells to gathering systems
Production Optimization Solutions
Identify production challenges and find solutions using time-tested petroleum software
“The value of these products is that the solutions reside in one source. Your production problems are identified and solved by knowledgeable petroleum engineers, keeping your needs in mind.”
Mofazzal Bhuiyan, Product Manager
Analyze Producing Systems From Wells and Reservoirs to Surface Networks
Production optimization solutions are designed specifically for production facilities, reservoir and completion engineers. Our production engineering software combines robust analysis and modeling techniques trusted by the world’s largest oil and service companies.
Our suite of integrated applications helps you calculate what-if scenarios, quickly and accurately, to better design and exploit wells and reservoirs. From simple NODAL analysis to complex network design, no application offers more value.
Use production optimization solutions to identify, diagnose, recommend, and document well and field production optimization problems.
Be assured that you can anticipate, solve and budget the lifetime value of an asset.
PERFORM®
PERFORM is a cost-effective well-performance application that has become the world standard for NODAL analysis. Use PERFORM in these areas:
- Predict liquid loading in producing wells
- Improve completion design
- Model downhole networks including multilayer and multilateral wells
- Model gas/water injection
- Optimize/design gaslift systems
- Predict flow assurance (scale/hydrate) problems in wellbore/ flowlines for both offshore and onshore wells
- Pressure gradient analysis and coiled tubing/velocity string calculations
- Evaluate vertical or horizontal well potentials
- Model natural or hydraulically fractured wells
- Predict a well’s performance in unconventional (CBM, tight formation, etc.) formations
- Improve mature field/ brown field production
SubPUMP®
SubPUMP software gives you a single, concise source for quick Electric Submersible Pump (ESP) system design and analysis. It is recognized as the world’s most popular and only vendor-neutral source for evaluating potential performance from an ESP well.
- Design an ESP system (pump/motor sizing from desired well production)
- Select equipment from a database of 3,000+ pieces of entry from 9 different leading ESP manufacturers worldwide
- Verify performance of gas separation / gas handlers using test efficiency data
- Compare actual vs. modeled parameters to optimize ESP well performance
- Diagnose ESP problems to enhance run life
- Perform side-by-side comparisons of various ESP components (pump, motor, cable, etc.) from different vendors
- Verify your service companies’ ESP design recommendations
- Conduct a combined ESP and gas lift study to enhance oil production
PipeSoft-2®
PipeSoft-2 models and troubleshoots well/ pipeline networks.
- Model gas and oil gathering systems under steady state flow conditions
- Identify bottlenecks and flow assurance problems anywhere in pipeline systems
- Generate scenarios by changing any flow parameter, adding/removing a well or deactivating branches from the main network
- Offers three network solution methods, allowing you to reach faster solutions to a problem
- Model CO2 sequestration or water and steam injections for EOR/IOR projects in a mature asset
- Fluid types include compositional (dynamic), black oil (including non-Newtonian), condensate, steam, CO2, and single phase gas and oil. Systems range from one or more production or injection wells, individual pipelines, flow lines, gathering systems, distribution systems, and complex, field-wide systems with loops.
Tools Designed For the Engineer
Production optimization solutions are designed so that engineers have fast access to data and streamlined data entry.
You can now connect to YOUR data in new ways:
- Integrate your well/production data sources
- Connect to your custom Excel data sheets
- Use predefined XML schemas to ’map’ your data to input files
- Share data with third party applications
- Update case files automatically with the latest operations data from the well
- Automated equipment list updates whenever available
Engineers are likely to use these tools for the following work flow examples:
Production engineer: Solve modeling unconventional (shale/tight sand) horizontal gas wells with a definite number of fractures or designing artificial lift for a well
Facilities engineer: Identify bottlenecks in the production gathering system
Reservoir engineer: Compare well production scenarios by changing reservoir / fluid properties
Completions engineer: Model fracture wells or design perforations using gun data
Management: Optimize lifetime value of an asset by looking at long-term production potentials
Why Chose IHS
With flexible unit systems and in multiple languages, from our 15-year time tested software, user-friendly interfaces and functionality, and to our highly knowledgeable support staff, your operations will benefit from optimization software.
How to Buy
Talk to our sales representatives about perpetual licensing, maintenance and support options, and volume discounts for multiple users.
IHS Engineering Toolkit
IHS provides the information, insight and software tools to assist engineers with the acquisition, exploitation, and production of oil and gas reserves. Managing profitable assets requires constant evaluation of concepts, development opportunities, reserves recovery, technology costs, and infrastructure capacities. The pillars of our offering, extensive regional data, cost management, reservoir exploitation and optimization, and production operations and optimization gives you the ability to go from concept to production with consistency and confidence.
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