20/20 Vision of Your Operations – Creating an Operational Twin of Completions Operations

The industry has seen an increase in the need for digitally connected completions operations, pushing for companies to sensor, aggregate, and stream data to remote operation centers (ROC). While sensoring critical parameters is vital to monitoring operations, the most important element is generally excluded from the ROC – the contextual perspective only provided by personnel. This innovative approach provides clarity to remote operations through integrating human context, engineering, and sensors, aligning operations with engineering and management. Prioritizing real-time data aggregation and the integration of sensor and contextual data must be a cornerstone of a remote monitoring solution. This approach outlines creating a digital twin by combining and aggregating the three elements into one digital context. The method outlined leverages a tri-directional sync from the operational controls, remote platform, and phone application that allows users to include operational states and human-sensored elements, such as return rate, viscosity, valve position, and rig-up geometry, that are used to align the pre-job modeling and actual operations once the job is started, providing a single source of truth for all users. Pre-job modeling and procedures provide a roadmap for the operations to follow, but when the human context is excluded once the operation has started, the model becomes invalid. At this point, the variability introduced due to the lack of context can result in undesirable outcomes. When simulated, pre-job modeling uses the best available information, but often, the operation has elements that need to be adjusted once on location.