Life Cycle Engineering

It is not always possible for a focused engineer, team or department to consider holistic, life-cycle or other points of view in conjunction with their particular discipline / area of focus. And yet consideration of individual disciplines with respect to the whole can be paramount with regard to optimal productivity over maximum time.





Typically, for example, Service Company personnel are trained to be focused and expert in one area – for example HPHT casing design, production tubing sizing, testing, drilling fluids, directional drilling etc. Drilling Contractors too are typically forced to focus upon one key thing : that of ever-improving time reduction. And Operator personnel, as a result of yet another round of cut-backs often simply do not have the time to integrate effectively with other departments / disciplines within the same company, let alone with affiliated companies. IDEAS is able to provide holistic life-cycle integrative interface engineering to provide optimal solutions through our experience in effective sub-surface engineering. We are totally independent and are without bias. And we are very cross-discipline experienced, always taking a life-cycle approach to our work – which, over time, reduces costs and maximises hydrocarbon productivity – and so profitability.





The result, then, is a project based on individual disciplines as opposed to a project based on integration. And a holistic life-cycle approach consequently suffers at best, does not get off the ground at worst since individuality proceeds typically at the expense of the project as a whole and is always found where there is no integrative or life-cycle engineering. Classic examples exist where reservoir, drilling, completion and production departments exist as separate departments where there is little or no inter-facing. However, an integrative / holistic / life-cycle approach usually always proves to be the most successful in long-term economic terms : there are many examples of successful wells and projects in published literature which owe their success to such an approach.