Managing production operations to achieve sustainability goals
A method may include receiving production data and facility data associated with an enterprise, such that the production data includes operational tasks performed in a hydrocarbon production system and wherein the facility data includes utility operations within buildings associated with the enterprise. The method may involve receiving sustainability parameter data associated with operations corresponding to the enterprise based on the production data and the facility data, generating a sustainability report representative of sustainability parameters associated with the operations of the enterprise based on the sustainability parameter data, and sending the sustainability report to one or more engineering workflow systems to determine action plans associated with improving a portion of the sustainability parameters associated with the operational tasks. The method may then send commands to devices associated with the hydrocarbon production system based on the action plans, such that the commands cause the devices to adjust their respective operations.
1. A method, comprising:
receiving, via a computing system, production data and facility data associated with an enterprise, wherein the production data comprises information related to operational tasks performed with regard to extracting hydrocarbons from a subsurface region of the earth as part of a hydrocarbon production system, and wherein the facility data comprises additional information related to one or more utility operations within one or more buildings associated with the enterprise;
receiving, via the computing system, sustainability parameter data associated with one or more operations corresponding to the enterprise based on the production data and the facility data, wherein the one or more operations corresponds to the operational tasks and the utility operations;
generating, via the computing system, a sustainability report representative of one or more sustainability parameters associated with the operations of the enterprise based on the sustainability parameter data;
identifying, via the computing system, one or more engineering workflow systems of a plurality of engineering workflow systems based on the one or more sustainability parameters, wherein each of the plurality of engineering workflow systems corresponds to a separate computing device relative to the computing system and is configured to independently analyze a sustainability model associated with the one or more enterprise operations with respect to at least one of the one or more sustainability parameters, and wherein the one or more engineering workflow systems is identified by:
broadcasting a request indicative of the one or more sustainability parameters to the plurality of engineering workflow systems; and
querying a database comprising a list of abatement technologies associated with each of the plurality of engineering workflow systems based on the one or more sustainability parameters, wherein each abatement technology of the list corresponds to a device associated with the one or more enterprise operations, an operational parameter for an additional device associated with the one or more enterprise operations, or both;
sending, via the computing system, the sustainability report to the one or more engineering workflow systems configured to determine one or more action plans associated with improving a portion of the one or more sustainability parameters associated with the operational tasks;
receiving, via the computing system, the one or more action plans from the one or more engineering workflow systems; and
sending, via the computing system, one or more commands to a plurality of devices associated with the hydrocarbon production system based on the one or more action plans, wherein the one or more commands are configured to cause the plurality of devices to adjust one or more respective operations, wherein the plurality of devices correspond to controlling one or more properties associated with extracting the hydrocarbons from the subsurface region, adjusting the one or more utility operations within the one or more buildings, or both, wherein the plurality of devices is configured to adjust the one or more respective operations in response to receiving the one or more commands.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the production data is acquired from one or more internet-of-things (IoT) devices.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the production data comprises one or more operational schedules of one or more devices employed to perform the operational tasks.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the information related to the operational tasks performed in the hydrocarbon production system comprises one or more types of equipment, an arrangement of the equipment, emission data associated with the equipment, or any combination thereof.
5. The method of claim 1 , comprising:
generating a sustainability model representative of the one or more sustainability parameters associated with the one or more operations of the enterprise over a period of time based on the sustainability report;
determining that the one or more sustainability parameters are less than one or more thresholds;
identifying the one or more engineering workflow systems in response to the one or more sustainability parameters being less than the one or more thresholds, wherein the one or more engineering workflow systems correspond to improving the portion of the one or more sustainability parameters associated with the one or more operational tasks; and
sending the sustainability model and one or more requests to provide the one or more action plans to the one or more engineering workflow systems based on the sustainability model.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more action plans comprise one or more modifications to the one or more operational tasks.
7. A system, comprising:
a production system configured to produce a plurality of products over time as part of an enterprise;
a plurality of buildings associated with the enterprise; and
a processing system comprising a memory configured to store instructions that cause the processing system to perform operations comprising:
receiving production data and facility data associated with the enterprise, wherein the production data comprises information related to one or more operational tasks performed with regard to extracting hydrocarbons from a subsurface region of the earth as part of the production system, and wherein the facility data comprises additional information related to one or more utility operations within the plurality of buildings associated with the enterprise;
receiving sustainability parameter data associated with one or more operations corresponding to the enterprise based on the production data and the facility data, wherein the one or more operations corresponds to the one or more operational tasks and the one or more utility operations;
generating a sustainability model representative of one or more sustainability parameters associated with the operations of the enterprise based on the sustainability parameter data;
identifying, via the computing system, one or more engineering workflow systems of a plurality of engineering workflow systems based on the one or more sustainability parameters, wherein each of the plurality of engineering workflow systems corresponds to a separate computing device relative to the computing system and is configured to independently analyze a sustainability model associated with the one or more enterprise operations with respect to at least one of the one or more sustainability parameters, and wherein the one or more engineering workflow systems is identified by:
broadcasting a request indicative of the one or more sustainability parameters to the plurality of engineering workflow systems; and
querying a database comprising a list of abatement technologies associated with each of the plurality of engineering workflow systems based on the one or more sustainability parameters, wherein each abatement technology of the list corresponds to a device associated with the one or more enterprise operations, an operational parameter for an additional device associated with the one or more enterprise operations, or both, wherein the plurality of devices are configured to adjust the one or more respective operations in response to receiving the one or more commands;
sending a request to one or more engineering workflow systems configured to determine the one or more action plans associated with improving a portion of the one or more sustainability parameters associated with the one or more operational tasks based on the sustainability model;
receiving the one or more action plans from the one or more engineering workflow systems; and
sending one or more commands to a plurality of devices associated with the production system based on the one or more action plans, wherein the one or more commands are configured to cause the plurality of devices to adjust one or more respective operations, wherein the plurality of devices correspond to controlling one or more properties associated with extracting the hydrocarbons from the subsurface region, adjusting the one or more utility operations within the one or more buildings, or both.
8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the production data comprises energy costs data, type of energy resource data, water consumption data, waste cost data, or any combination thereof, and wherein the one or more commands correspond to modifying one or more operational schedules associated with equipment operated in the production system.
9. The system of claim 7 , wherein the equipment comprises an electro-submersible pump, a variable speed drive, or both.
10. The system of claim 7 , wherein the production system corresponds to hydraulic fracturing operations.
11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the portion of the one or more sustainability parameters corresponds to greenhouse gas emissions associated with a plurality of trucks being used in the hydraulic fracturing operations.
12. The system of claim 7 , comprising:
determining that the one or more sustainability parameters are less than one or more thresholds based on the sustainability model; and
identifying the one or more engineering workflow systems in response to the one or more sustainability parameters being less than the one or more thresholds, wherein the one or more engineering workflow systems correspond to improving the portion of the one or more sustainability parameters associated with the one or more operational tasks.
13. The system of claim 7 , wherein the one or more action plans comprise one or more modifications to the one or more operational tasks.
14. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising computer- executable instructions configured to cause a computing system to perform operations comprising:
receiving production data and facility data associated with an enterprise, wherein the production data comprises information related to one or more operational tasks performed with regard to extracting hydrocarbons from a subsurface region of the earth as part of a production system, and wherein the facility data comprises additional information related to one or more utility operations within the plurality of buildings associated with the enterprise;
receiving sustainability parameter data associated with one or more operations corresponding to the enterprise based on the production data and the facility data, wherein the one or more operations corresponds to the one or more operational tasks and the one or more utility operations;
generating a sustainability model representative of one or more sustainability parameters associated with the operations of the enterprise based on the sustainability parameter data;
identifying, via the computing system, one or more engineering workflow systems of a plurality of engineering workflow systems based on the one or more sustainability parameters, wherein each of the plurality of engineering workflow systems corresponds to a separate computing device relative to the computing system and is configured to independently analyze a sustainability model associated with the one or more enterprise operations with respect to at least one of the one or more sustainability parameters, and wherein the one or more engineering workflow systems is identified by:
broadcasting a request indicative of the one or more sustainability parameters to the plurality of engineering workflow systems; and
querying a database comprising a list of abatement technologies associated with each of the plurality of engineering workflow systems based on the one or more sustainability parameters, wherein each abatement technology of the list corresponds to a device associated with the one or more enterprise operations, an operational parameter for an additional device associated with the one or more enterprise operations, or both, wherein the plurality of devices are configured to adjust the one or more respective operations in response to receiving the one or more commands;
sending a request to the one or more engineering workflow systems configured to determine one or more action plans associated with improving a portion of the one or more sustainability parameters associated with the one or more operational tasks based on the sustainability model;
receiving the one or more action plans from the one or more engineering workflow systems; and
sending one or more commands to a plurality of devices associated with the production system based on the one or more action plans, wherein the one or more commands are configured to cause the plurality of devices to adjust one or more respective operations, wherein the plurality of devices correspond to controlling one or more properties associated with extracting the hydrocarbons from the subsurface region, adjusting the one or more utility operations within the one or more buildings, or both.
15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14 , wherein the one or more commands correspond to:
modifying one or more operational schedules associated with equipment operating in the production system.
16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14 , wherein the production data comprises sensor data acquired via one or more greenhouse gas sensors.
17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14 , comprising:
determining that the one or more sustainability parameters are less than one or more thresholds based on the sustainability model; and
identifying the one or more engineering workflow systems in response to the one or more sustainability parameters being less than the one or more thresholds.
18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14 , wherein the production data comprises energy costs data, type of energy resource data, water consumption data, waste cost data, or any combination thereof, and wherein the one or more commands correspond to modifying one or more operational schedules associated with equipment operated in the production system.
19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 18 , wherein the equipment comprises an electro-submersible pump, a variable speed drive, or both.
20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14 , wherein the production system corresponds to drilling operations.