During The Epidemic, "Three Barrels Of Oil": Steady Improvement In Production And Speed Up In Digital Transformation

In February 27th, the economic report reporters in twenty-first Century learned from CNOOC that since this year, China CNOOC has achieved 9 million 610 thousand tons of domestic production and oil and gas equivalent, an increase of 5.5% over the same period, and 14 production capacity projects for upstream oil and gas production units have all started.

At this point, three barrels of oil were released at different times of their respective upstream oil and gas production and operation figures during the epidemic. Judging from the current disclosure, during the first quarter of this year, China's oil and gas production has not been particularly seriously affected by the new crown epidemic.

"From the current company's exploration and production situation, the impact is not great." An oil business person told reporters, "prevention and control of exploration and development, leadership is very tight, we can say that the first quarter of this year will not have a great impact, the future depends on the whole epidemic situation changes."

It is worth noting that during the epidemic period, the oil and gas industry has accelerated the process of digital transformation, and intelligent, long distance, automation and unmanned has become a new trend.

During the epidemic period, the upstream production figures of the three major oil companies recorded different degrees of increase. Song Wenhui photo

Steady increase in upstream production

From the current production and operation data, we can see that the upstream exploration and development as the foundation of China's petroleum industry has achieved steady growth during the epidemic.

In terms of PetroChina, during the Spring Festival, the daily output of domestic crude oil and natural gas increased by 2.2% and 12.6% respectively over the same period last year. In January, the actual gas production in the existing gas storage (Group) was 2 billion 811 million cubic meters, and 109.58% of the planned progress was achieved.

In Sinopec, in January, Sinopec produced 2 million 980 thousand tons of crude oil, unchanged from the same period last year, and 2 billion 620 million natural gas producers, an increase of 5.7% over the same period last year. Crude processing capacity of 21 million 350 thousand tons, an increase of 1.1% over the same period, the production of refined oil 13 million 570 thousand tons, an increase of 0.7% over the same period last year.

Including the CNOOC mentioned above, the upstream production figures of the three major oil companies have recorded varying degrees of increase. It is worth mentioning that the key projects of various companies have not been postponed due to the outbreak of the epidemic. They have steadily implemented the previous implementation plan.

In February 20th, the reporter learned from Changqing Oilfield that with the drilling of West 43-14 well in Longdong Oil area, 21 oil and gas capacity construction projects deployed in four provinces and autonomous regions in Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia opened the largest oil and gas production capacity in Inner Mongolia this year.

It is understood that Changqing Oilfield will produce 5 million 860 thousand tons of crude oil and 11 billion 700 million cubic meters of natural gas production this year, supporting the new record of 60 million tons of oil and gas output. At present, 662 drilling rigs have been mobilized, 378 oil and gas testing units have been placed in the well site, and the production has been started in an orderly way. More than 500 construction teams participating in the surface engineering construction have been accelerating to the forefront.

CNOOC, with proven oil and gas geological reserves of nearly 3 million tons, has successfully completed the offshore installation of the upper block of the offshore oil platform in the large condensate gas field of the Bohai Bay Basin, Bohai 19-6 development project.

The first large-scale offshore deepwater self operated gas field in China, the development project of Lingshui 17-2, has developed 9 drilling wells, and the Deepwater semi submersible production platform for gas field development is being accelerated. Over 40 offshore oil and gas production plants in the western South China Sea oil field have been operating steadily during the Spring Festival and the epidemic situation, and the daily output of oil production exceeds 30 thousand tons.

Sinopec, the Sinopec refining and chemical integration project, the Maoming petrochemical oil upgrading project and the new gas pipeline three major projects started orderly during the Spring Festival. As of February 9th, the total construction strength of the Sino project during the Spring Festival holiday period reached 48000 passengers, eliminating more than 980 items of construction.

However, due to the uncertainty of the development of the epidemic, it is too early to be optimistic about China's oil and gas exploration and production in the first half of 2019.

"Since the pre production of oil and gas exploration has the characteristics of labor intensive and regional decentralization, this epidemic poses a great challenge to the normal operation of upstream business and the health and safety of employees." China Petroleum Institute of petroleum technology to the twenty-first Century economic news reporter said. "If the epidemic can be fully controlled in the first quarter, the impact on domestic oil and gas production is limited, but if the epidemic continues to the second quarter, it will have a greater impact on domestic upstream business."

New technologies empower traditional industries

During the epidemic period, the oil and gas industry showed an obvious characteristic: in the oil and gas production management, operation and service links, unmanned, intelligent, non-contact management means, methods and technologies will become the trend.

Jiang Yong, senior engineer of the production and operation Department of China Petroleum and natural gas sales division, said that the epidemic posed some challenges to the emergency management of the oil and gas industry. In the face of such emergencies in public health, we should first reduce staff's duty, reduce customer aggregation, reduce personnel contacts, and adopt advanced, unmanned, intelligent and non-contact. Production operation and management means, methods and techniques.

The oil companies told reporters that because they could not travel, a large number of workers had adopted video conferencing and other new information technology to solve many problems of technology and management, and the effect of this work method was very significant in practical application.

The former PetroChina Institute of petroleum technology also told reporters that it is foreseeable that in the era of post new crown pneumonia, oil and gas exploration and development will further accelerate the process of digital transformation, and the demand for intelligent, remote, automated and unmanned development will become even more urgent.

Artificial intelligence technology, represented by expert system and artificial neural network, will further integrate with oil and gas exploration and development business, and apply intelligent decision solutions in many scenarios such as seismic interpretation, development plan design, oil well production optimization, risk emergency disposal, and so on. He said.

At the same time, with the help of digital twins, industrial Internet of things, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and other technologies, the exploration and development field is expected to finally realize the digitalization of the whole life cycle of assets. The popularization and application of the Internet of things, UAV and automation control system will accelerate the labor intensive business scenario in the process of exploration and development to automation and unmanned direction.

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