Multiphase Metering for Unconventional Shale

Multiphase Metering for Unconventional Shale

A ‘game changer’ for the shale industry, providing direct and accurate wellhead monitoring and metering in a compact and highly cost-effective design

A Modular Flow Meter Specifically Designed to Address the Flow Profiles in Shale Fields

Oil and gas operators today strive to improve well performance through technology and innovation. Those innovations include identifying efficiency improvements, improving infrastructure and reducing service cost. These challenges apply to the entire industry, such as subsea, offshore and onshore, including unconventional oil and gas (such as shale plays). Over the past years, Emerson has gained vast experience in using the Roxar 2600 Multiphase Flow Meter (MPFM) for accurate measurement in flowback operations, and initial, mid-and late life production in the North American shale industry.

Roxar 2600 MPFM

Roxar 2600 MPFM is now available in smaller sizes for unconventional fields.

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Solutions in Action

Flowback

In unconventional developments, the term flowback is defined as the period where the well is producing back most of the water that was pumped into the rock formation during hydraulic fracturing.

Accurate, continuous measurement data and process diagnostics from the Roxar 2600 Multiphase Flow Meter during flowback provides:

  • Alerts to process upsets or abnormal operation
  • Insight into the operation that traditional technologies often cannot provide
  • Confidence in measurement and well behavior

Production Challenges

Unconventional production challenges can include poorly sized facilities, shortage on personnel, reduced profit due to poor measurements and re-work cost of poor separation. By switching to one Roxar 2600 MPFM per well, it can provide metering for initial production and legacy wells, build confidence in production changes, reduce operations costs and safety risks. Continuous insight from the Roxar 2600 MPFM, coupled with artificial lift optimization programs can yield 4-20% more production.

Well Pad Design

Lower oil prices are driving operators to find ways to reduce capital and operating expenditure. These include ways to improve well performance through technology and innovation, identifying efficiency improvements and improving infrastructure. By switching to one Roxar 2600 Multiphase Flow Meter per well, operators can achieve accurate well allocation, as well as reduced well pad footprint, pipe line requirements and environment exposure as tanks are pushed downstream to central facilities.

MPFM & Sand Monitor

In addition to the Roxar 2600 Multiphase Flow Meter, a Roxar SAM Acoustic Sand Monitor can be installed. These non-intrusive sand monitors can be utilized for quantifying sand and verifying sand trap efficiency and possible pipework erosion.  Combining the Roxar 2600 MPFM and the Roxar SAM Acoustic Sand Monitor in essence provides a 4-phase measurement system (gas, oil, water and sand), in which the monitor utilizes the velocity from the Roxar 2600 MPFM to quantify the amount of sand produced.

Roxar Rapid Adaptive Measurement Release February 2021

At Emerson we pride ourselves in continually listening to our customers and striving to meet their instrumentation needs. We are delighted to highlight the new embedded software for the Roxar 2600 Multiphase Flow Meter, Rapid Adaptive Measurement. Trusting your data, however challenging and varied flow conditions may be, and streamlining the integration and configuration process, are key needs from your instrumentation to ensure peak performance. Adding to the digitalization of your operations, supporting your goal to do more, better, with less, is also addressed with this innovational embedded software. Please see the video section of this page for further information on this exciting software release.

Roxar 2600 MPFM

Performance Monitoring for the Roxar 2600 MPFM

Remotely Monitor and Optimize Roxar 2600 Multiphase Flow Meter Performance with IIoT-based Solutions

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