Kuwait Oil Company Improves Well Performance and Reduces Field Visits with WirelessHART monitoring
Kuwait Oil Company Improves Well Performance and Reduces Field Visits with WirelessHART monitoring
2 PagesKuwait Oil Company Improves Well Performance and Reduces Field Visits with WirelessHART monitoring RESULTS • Significantly reduced manual monitoring costs • Install time reduced from one week per wellhead to two wells per day • $1 million saved by cutting installation costs cut in half, $3000 per each of 357 wells APPLICATION WirelessHART remote monitoring systems on 357 wellhead to improve upon existing data gathering procedures. CUSTOMER Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) CHALLENGE For the first few decades of oil production, Kuwait Oil Company relied on the pressure in underground formations to extract oil. But by late 2010, KOC started depending on artificial lift stations to produce the required pressure, with the number of lift units increasing to 357. KOC needed to add remote monitorin
