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Upstream Digital Oilfield Architecture
A digital oilfield platform: wellsite sensors and SCADA, a production data historian, and engineering applications for surveillance and optimisation.
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What this diagram shows
- Wellsite data flows through SCADA into a production historian
- Production surveillance flags underperforming wells
- Engineers run optimisation models on live data
Prompt used
Upstream digital oilfield architecture: wellheads with pressure, temperature and flow sensors and artificial lift controllers send data to field SCADA over radio/satellite. A production data historian (OSIsoft PI) stores time-series data. Platform services: production surveillance dashboards, well test and allocation, artificial lift optimisation, and a reservoir data hub; production accounting reports feed ERP. Engineers work from a collaboration centre.
Mermaid code
C4Container
title Digital Oilfield
Person(engineer, "Production Engineer", "Monitors and optimises wells")
System_Ext(wells, "Wellsite Sensors and Controllers", "Pressure, flow, pumps")
System_Ext(erp, "ERP", "Production accounting and finance")
System_Boundary(dof, "Digital Oilfield Platform") {
Container(scada, "Field SCADA", "SCADA", "Real-time well control")
ContainerDb(hist, "Production Historian", "OSIsoft PI", "Time-series data")
Container(surv, "Production Surveillance", "Web", "Well KPIs and alarms")
Container(alloc, "Well Test and Allocation", "Java", "Allocated production")
Container(opt, "Artificial Lift Optimisation", "Python", "Pump and gas-lift tuning")
Container(res, "Reservoir Data Hub", "Python", "Pressures and models")
}
Rel(wells, scada, "Radio / satellite")
Rel(scada, hist, "Stores")
Rel(hist, surv, "Feeds")
Rel(hist, alloc, "Feeds")
Rel(hist, opt, "Feeds")
Rel(opt, scada, "Set points")
Rel(alloc, erp, "Daily production")
Rel(engineer, surv, "Uses")
Rel(engineer, opt, "Runs models")
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