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WO1999060247A1 - Systeme de gestion de production automatique d'hydrocarbures - Google Patents

Systeme de gestion de production automatique d'hydrocarbures Download PDF

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WO1999060247A1
WO1999060247A1 PCT/US1999/010703 US9910703W WO9960247A1 WO 1999060247 A1 WO1999060247 A1 WO 1999060247A1 US 9910703 W US9910703 W US 9910703W WO 9960247 A1 WO9960247 A1 WO 9960247A1
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
    • G05B—CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS
    • G05B17/00—Systems involving the use of models or simulators of said systems
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B34/00—Valve arrangements for boreholes or wells
    • E21B34/06—Valve arrangements for boreholes or wells in wells
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B43/00—Methods or apparatus for obtaining oil, gas, water, soluble or meltable materials or a slurry of minerals from wells
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  • the present invention relates to oilfield hydrocarbon production management systems capable of managing hydrocarbon production from boreholes.
  • the present invention's intelligent optimization oilfield hydrocarbon production management systems sense and adapt to internal and external process conditions, automatically adjusting operating parameters to optimize production from the wellbore with a minimum of human intervention.
  • Oilfield hydrocarbon production management may be accomplished by systems located downhole, at the surface, subsea, or from a combination of these locations.
  • the present invention's oilfield hydrocarbon production management systems include one or more of the following features: intelligent and non- intelligent well devices such as flow control tools, smart pumps, and sensors; knowledge databases comprising historical databases, reservoir models, and wellbore requirements; and supervisory control and data acquisition software comprising one or more oilfield hydrocarbon production management goals, one or more process models, and, optionally, one or more goal seeking intelligent software objects.
  • intelligent and non- intelligent well devices such as flow control tools, smart pumps, and sensors
  • knowledge databases comprising historical databases, reservoir models, and wellbore requirements
  • supervisory control and data acquisition software comprising one or more oilfield hydrocarbon production management goals, one or more process models, and, optionally, one or more goal seeking intelligent software objects.
  • controllers to control downhole devices such as hydro-mechanical safety valves. These typically microprocessor-based controllers may also be used for zone control within a well. However, these controllers often fail to achieve the desired production optimization and further require substantial human intervention.
  • current art oilfield hydrocarbon production management systems may use surface controllers that are often hardwired to downhole sensors which transmit data about conditions such as pressure, temperature, and flow to the surface controller. These data may then be processed by a computerized control system at the surface, but such systems still require human intervention and do not provide enforcement of global optimization criteria, focusing instead, if at all, on highly localized optimization, e.g. for one device.
  • Some current art oilfield hydrocarbon production management systems also disclose downhole intelligent devices, mostly microprocessor-based, including microprocessor-based electromechanical control devices and sensors, but do not teach that these downhole intelligent devices may themselves automatically initiate the control of electromechanical devices based on adaptive process models. Instead, these systems also require control electronics located at the surface as well as human intervention.
  • None of the current art disclosing intelligent downhole devices for controlling the production from oil and gas wells teaches the use of electronic controllers, electromechanical control devices and sensors B whether located downhole, surface, subsea, or mixed B together with supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems which automatically adapt operation of the electronic controllers, electromechanically controllable devices, and/or sensors in accordance with process models and production management goals, or cooperative control of these devices based on a unified, adaptively optimizing system to automatically enforce system wide set of optimization criteria.
  • SCADA supervisory control and data acquisition
  • FIG. 1 is a cross-section of a typical platform indicating several wells, two of which have a plurality of zones;
  • FIG. 2 is a diagrammatic representation of the present invention's SCADA, including an optional current data source and an optional interrogatable knowledge database;
  • FIG. 3 is a diagrammatic representation of an intelligent software object
  • FIG. 4 is a diagrammatic representation of intelligent software objects showing flow and hierarchy relationships.
  • Fig. 1 a cross-section of a typical platform indicating several wells with two of the wells, well 640 and well 641, having a plurality of zones as that term is readily understood by those skilled in the hydrocarbon production arts, the present invention can utilize intelligent and non-intelligent real world devices 100 located at several locations within or around a well.
  • real world devices in general are referred to generally with the numeric series "100", such as downhole generic real world device 101 in zone 640b of well 640, subsea intelligent real world device 112 in well 641, or surface non-intelligent real world device 123 at surface platform 645.
  • Real world devices 100 include specific devices that are referred to generally as follows: sensors indicated by the numeric series "200,” controllable devices by the numeric series “300,” injection devices by the numeric series “400,” and fluid processing devices by the numeric series “500.”
  • the present invention's sensors 200 are capable of providing sensed information about the state of the process to be controlled as well as about the state of other real world devices 100 such as controllable devices 300 or even other sensors 200.
  • Controllable devices 300 may include flow control devices familiar to those skilled in the hydrocarbon production arts and include valves, pumps, and the like.
  • Injection devices 400 may include surface injection devices 403 such as steam, gas, and water injection devices; downhole injection devices 401 such as downhole oil/water separation devices; and/or a combination thereof.
  • Fluid processing devices 500 may include mechanical or phase separators and/or chemical delivery systems at various locations in or at a well.
  • intelligent real world device 110 includes at least one processor unit and computer memory associated with the processor unit.
  • the processor unit may be a general purpose microprocessor or may be any another processing unit, including specialized processors such as those commonly referred to as an ASIC.
  • the computer memory may be volatile, such as random access memory (RAM) , changeable such as flash memories, or non-volatile such as read only memory (ROM) or optical memory.
  • Intelligent real world devices 110 may include intelligent well devices and/or robotic devices as well as more traditional controllers .
  • real world devices 100 may be located downhole, at the surface of the well, subsea, remotely, or a combination of these locations. Therefore, in the discussions which follow and in the various drawings, an ending digit of "0" in a numeric series indicates a real world device 100 which can be located anywhere.
  • a real world device 100 located downhole will have an ending digit of "1”
  • a real world device 100 located subsea will have an ending digit of "2”
  • a real world device 100 located at the surface (including above or at the sea's surface) will have an ending digit of "3”
  • a real world device 100 located remotely from the well will have an ending digit of "4".
  • a generic device e.g. sensor 200
  • a specific location e.g. downhole generic sensor 201 in zone 640a of well 640
  • a specific device in a specific location e.g. intelligent downhole sensor 211 located in zone 640b of well 640 or subsea non- intelligent sensor 222 located in well 640.
  • SCADA supervisory control and data acquisition system
  • the present invention relates to management of hydrocarbon production from a single production well (e.g. only well 642) or from a group of wells, shown in Fig. 1 as well 640, well 641 and well 642.
  • SCADA 11 which is capable of intelligent and proactive control of hydrocarbon production. More specifically, SCADA 11 includes traditional reactive monitoring and control functions as well as one or more production management goals lie and one or more process models lid.
  • SCADA 11 executes within one or more intelligent real world devices 110 (e.g. subsea intelligent real world device 112 shown in well 641 or downhole intelligent controllable device 311 shown in zone 640a of well 640) to interact with and proactively control one or more real world devices 100 (e.g. surface non- intelligent controllable device 303 shown in surface platform 645) to automate and optimize hydrocarbon production from a zone or group of zones in one or more wells, a single well, or a group of wells.
  • intelligent real world devices 110 e.g. subsea intelligent real world device 112 shown in well 641 or downhole intelligent controllable device 311 shown in zone 640a of well 640
  • one or more real world devices 100 e.g. surface non- intelligent controllable device 303 shown in surface platform 645
  • Real world devices 100 may include sensors 200, such as downhole intelligent sensor 211 in zone 640b; controllable devices 300, such as subsea intelligent controllable device 312 in well 641; injection devices 400, such as downhole generic injection device 401 in zone 640b; fluid processing devices 500 such as downhole generic injection device 501 located in zone 640a; or any combination of these devices. It is understood that any of these real world devices 100, whether intelligent real world devices 110 or not, can be located downhole, subsea, at the surface, remotely or any combination of these locations.
  • intelligent real world devices 110 may be standalone units, such as traditional controllers embodied in a real world device 100 such as subsea intelligent controllable device 312 located in well 641, may be imbedded within or attached to one or more real world devices 100, for example intelligent sensors 210 (such as surface intelligent sensor 213 located at surface platform 645) , intelligent controllable devices 310 (such as subsea intelligent controllable device 312 located in well 641), injection devices 410 (such as subsea intelligent injection device 412 located in well 641), fluid processing devices 510 (such as downhole intelligent fluid processing device 512 located in zone 642a of well 642), or a combination of the above.
  • intelligent sensors 210 such as surface intelligent sensor 213 located at surface platform 645
  • intelligent controllable devices 310 such as subsea intelligent controllable device 312 located in well 641
  • injection devices 410 such as subsea intelligent injection device 412 located in well 641
  • fluid processing devices 510 such as downhole intelligent fluid processing device 512 located in zone
  • Communication between real world devices 100 may be through any acceptable data communications means 710 (shown in Fig. 2) such as but not limited to radio frequency, light frequency, fiber optics, RS-232, coax, local area networks, wide area networks, or combinations thereof.
  • acceptable data communications means 710 such as but not limited to radio frequency, light frequency, fiber optics, RS-232, coax, local area networks, wide area networks, or combinations thereof.
  • Sensors 200 may provide SCADA 11 with sensed data and/or historical data.
  • sensed data may include instantaneous data, or real-time data as that term is understood by those skilled in the computer sciences arts, as well as data acquired over some time interval, but sensed data reflect and/or represent at least one parameter of the production process.
  • Historical data may include data from the well(s) being controlled and/or from other wells, and may include data reflective of historical conditions and models about well processes and/or operations in general; data not associated with local wells being controlled by SCADA 11; data regarding production and fluid parameters, reservoir models, and wellbore requirements; and/or general historical well data.
  • Sensors 200 may also provide SCADA 11 with sensed data reflecting the state of other real world devices 100.
  • sensors 200 may be located and provide sensed data reflective of the process environment downhole, such as downhole generic sensor 201 in zone 640a of well 640; at the surface, such as surface intelligent sensor 213 located in surface platform 645; subsea, such as subsea intelligent sensor 212 located in well 642; remotely, such as remote intelligent sensor 214; or in any combination thereof.
  • Remote sensors 200 may provide SCADA 11 with information about the process environment external to the local well but important to production nonetheless, such as economic data, weather data, or any other data relevant to production management.
  • remote intelligent sensor 214 may comprise a radio transmitter transmitting weather data via satellite (not shown in Fig. 1) to SCADA 11.
  • an intelligent software object, or ISO, 10 may also be associated with various data sources to act as a "data miner", interrogating historical data for data points congruent or similar to SCADA' s 11 sensed data which are therefore useful to SCADA 11.
  • SCADA' s 11 functionality may optionally be distributed across a plurality of intelligent real world devices 110 in one or more distributed processing configurations, each of which is well understood by those skilled in the computer sciences art. Accordingly, SCADA 11 may solely execute in one of the intelligent devices' 110 control electronics or be cooperatively distributed between a plurality of intelligent real world devices 110 located within or distributed between in any combination of downhole, subsea, surface or even remote locations, e.g. distributed in downhole intelligent fluid processing unit 511 located in zone 640c of well 640 and downhole intelligent sensor 211 located in zones 640b of well 640.
  • SCADA 11 adaptively utilizes one or more process models lid of the production process, including models of the well(s) such as well 640, well 641, and well 642, their zone(s) such as zones 640a, 640b, 640c, 641a, and 641b, and real world devices 100 in addition to one or more higher level production management goals lie to proactively control and manage hydrocarbon production.
  • SCADA 11 may therefore be configured to respond to conditions associated with a single well such as well 640 as a whole, including its zones such as zone 640a, zone 640b, and zone 640c; conditions associated with one or more zones in a single well, such as only zone 640a or only zone 640a and/or zone 640b; conditions associated with one or more zones in a plurality of wells, such as zone 640a and zone 641a; or conditions associated with an entire oilfield such as well 640, well 641 and well 642.
  • These conditions may include conditions internal to a given well such as downhole temperature, pressure, and/or fluid conditions; process conditions external to a given well, e.g. field conditions; and non-process conditions, e.g. economic conditions.
  • SCADA 11 monitors process parameters (such as downhole pressure, temperature, flow, gas influx, etc.) and automatically executes control instructions to modify the operating parameters of its various sensors 200, controllable devices 300, injection devices 400, and fluid processing devices 500 in accordance with its process models lid and production management goals lie to optimize hydrocarbon production from the well.
  • process parameters such as downhole pressure, temperature, flow, gas influx, etc.
  • SCADA 11 may also adapt its process models lid based on actual, current conditions including remote conditions, past or historical conditions and models, and/or actual responses to SCADA 11 commands.
  • Current conditions may include instantaneous as well as substantially contemporaneous events. Therefore, as further opposed to the current art that merely monitors for and/or reacts to alarm conditions, SCADA 11 adaptively controls downhole, surface, and subsea devices, whether or not in alarm, in accordance with SCADA' s 11 analysis of its models and data from a variety of sources, including external data sources, with a minimum of human intervention.
  • SCADA 11 may further comprise one or more ISOs 10.
  • ISOs 10 provide a variety of functions useful in control and/or optimization applications and may be connected or grouped together in a variety of ways, more fully described herein below.
  • An ISO 10 comprises internal software objects, as that term is understood by those skilled in the computer programming arts.
  • ISO's 10 internal software objects may be configurably enabled, disabled, or not configured at all, and may include expert system objects 12 capable of utilizing one or more rules knowledge databases 13, which contain crisp logic rules 14 and/or fuzzy logic rules 16; adaptive models objects 20 which may use multiple, concurrent, differing modeling methodologies to produce adaptive models which "compete" in real-time with each other adaptive model within ISO 10 to predict a real-time process outcome based on current, past, and predicted process parameters; predictor objects 18 which select from among the various competing adaptive model of the adaptive models objects 20 that adaptive model which bests predicts the measured real-time process outcome; optimizer objects 22 which decide optimum parameters to be used by an ISO 10 for a given state of the process, calculation, or component to be optimized; communication translator objects 26 which may handle communications between an ISO 10 and anything outside ISO 10; and ISO sensor objects 25
  • sensor objects 25 which, in part, act as intelligent data storage and retrieval warehouses and data managers for the state (s) of the controlled process, including the state (s) of the control variables for the process.
  • Sensor objects 25, expert system objects 12, predictor objects 18, adaptive models objects 20, and optimizer objects 22 work together within ISO 10 to find, calculate, interpret, and derive new states for the control variables that result in the desired process state (s) or achieve process management goal(s) 32.
  • expert system objects 12, optimizer objects 22, predictor objects 18, and adaptive models objects 20 communicate and configurably interact with each other adaptively, automatically changing each other's behavior in real-time, including creating and deleting other internal software objects.
  • optimizer object 22 may modify expert system objects' 12 rules knowledge bases 13, and expert system object 12 may modify optimizer objects' 22 optimum goals to be sought.
  • ISOs 10 can model and represent any device or group of devices including sensors 200, controllable devices 300, fluid processing devices 400, injection devices 500, or any combination thereof.
  • ISOs 10 can also model and represent more abstract processes such as a single zone like 640a, a group of zones such as 640a and 640b, an entire well such as well 640, or an entire field such as wells 640, 641, and 642.
  • two or more ISOs 10 may be configured in either "flow relationships" that model, or representationally correspond to, the flow of the material and/or information which is to be controlled, and/or
  • ISO 610a may represent zone 640a of well 640, as shown in Fig. 1, as an abstract, aggregate process and ISO 610b may represent zone 640b of well 640 as an abstract, aggregate process.
  • ISO 610c may represent controllable device 301 located in well 640 above zones 640a and 640b, and data therefore "flow" from ISO 610a to and from ISO 610c, and from ISO 610b to and from ISO 610c to reflect and model the flow of hydrocarbons from those zones into well 640.
  • ISO 610d may be a "hierarchy” ISO 10 and represent well 640 as an aggregate whole
  • ISO 610e may be another “hierarchy” ISO 10 representing well 641 as a whole
  • “hierarchy” ISO 610f may represent the field in which well 640 and well 641 are both located.
  • each of ISO 610d and 610e can concurrently be "flow" ISOs 10 as well, representing, for example, the flow of hydrocarbons from each well into surface platform 645.
  • ISOs 10 are therefore very flexible and powerful in their modeling flexibility.
  • An ISO's 10 rules, goals, and optimization criteria may be initialized and/or modified configurably or in real-time by either the ISO 10 itself, other ISOs 10, human intervention, or a combination thereof.
  • ISO 610c can modify each of ISO 610a and 610b to change their production management goals 10c based on ISO's 610c production management goals 10c. Optimization may therefore be achieved through the cooperation between an ISO's 10 internal software objects as well as between ISOs 10 configured to represent an entire process.
  • SCADA 11 can proactively to issue control commands using inputs from its sensed and historical data alone.
  • SCADA 11 therefore permits fully automatic, concurrent, complex operation and control of single and/or multi-zone production including isolating specific zones such as 640a, 640b, or 640c; monitoring each zone in a particular well such as well 640; monitoring zones and wells in a field such as well 640, well 641, and well 642; and optimizing the operation of one or more wells across a vast number of optimization criteria.
  • SCADA 11 can provide for enforcement of optimization criteria with a more global scope rather than being limited to narrowly focusing on highly localized optimization, e.g. for one real world device 100. In doing so, SCADA 11 is better equipped to handle complex operations than human operators.
  • SCADA' s 11 ability to rapidly and adaptively react to complex and changing conditions affecting production with a minimum of human intervention allows SCADA 11 to automatically detect and adapt to varying control and communication reliability while still achieving its important control operations. Accordingly, SCADA 11 enhances safe operation of the well, both from human worker and environmental aspects.
  • SCADA 11 manages hydrocarbon production from one or more wells according to its process models lid and the conditions of which it is aware, adaptively modifying its process models lid to more fully correspond to actual responses to given commands when compared to predicted responses to given commands, thus adaptively and automatically accomplishing its set of one or more production management goals lie.
  • SCADA 11 can also manage hydrocarbon production from one or more wells according to its sensed and historical data.
  • SCADA 11 executes in one or more intelligent real world devices 110, including downhole intelligent real world devices 111, subsea intelligent real world devices 111, surface intelligent real world devices 112, remote intelligent real world devices 114 (not shown in Fig. 1) , or any combination thereof.
  • SCADA 1 s 11 communication can be unidirectional (for example, from downhole non-intelligent sensor 221 in zone 640c of well 640) or bidirectional (for example, to and from intelligent downhole controllable device 311 in zone 640c of well 640) .
  • a given well may be divided into a plurality of separate zones, such as zone 640a, zone 640b, and zone 640c.
  • zones may be positioned in a single vertical well such as well 640 associated with surface platform 645, or such zones may result when multiple wells are linked or otherwise joined together (not shown in Fig. 1) .
  • These zones may need to be concurrently monitored and/or controlled for efficient production and management of the well fluids.
  • intelligent real world devices 110 and non- intelligent devices 120 can co-exist within a single zone, multiple zones of a single well, multiple zones in multiple wells, or any combination thereof.
  • At least one real world device 100 will be an intelligent real world device 110, e.g.
  • an intelligent sensor 210 such as downhole intelligent sensor 211 located in zone 640b of well 640 or an intelligent controllable device 310 such as downhole intelligent controllable device 311 located in zone 640a of well 640.
  • one or more ISOs 10 may also be resident in one or more intelligent real world devices 110 such as an intelligent sensor 211 or an intelligent controllable device 311.
  • SCADA 11 may communicate with one or more ISOs 10, and may use ISOs 10 to adaptively and cooperatively control the real world devices 110 in which ISOs 10 reside or which ISOs 10 model.
  • SCADA 11 may further utilize data from an interrogatable knowledge database lie, comprising historical data about well operations, and/or current data source 700 which is not associated with local wells being controlled by SCADA 11, e.g. wells 640, 641, or 642.
  • SCADA 11 could obtain current data from remote intelligent sensor 214. These data could include well maintenance schedules, weather reports, price of hydrocarbons, and other non- well data which do not arise from but may impact optimization of hydrocarbon production from a well.
  • SCADA 11 may be programmed with a process model lid which includes a model of tanker vessel availability and its impact on hydrocarbon production for a subsea well, e.g. well 640. SCADA 11 may then adjust hydrocarbon production using non-well data such as weather data communicated to SCADA 11 which may impact the arrival schedule of a tanker vessel.
  • SCADA 11 may utilize interrogatable knowledge database lie to aid in optimization of hydrocarbon production.
  • Interrogatable knowledge database lie may include historical data, descriptions of relationships between the data, and rules concerning the use of and relationships between these data and data from a single well such as well 640, from a plurality of wells in a field such as wells 640 and 641, and/or from accumulated well production knowledge.
  • Interrogatable knowledge database's lie historical data may therefore comprise data regarding production and fluid parameters, reservoir models, and wellbore requirements, whether from well 640, the field in which the particular downhole well is located, or from general historical downhole well data.
  • SCADA 11 has the ability to interrogate knowledge database lie and integrate its data into SCADA' s 11 adaptive modification of its predictive models, giving SCADA 11 a broader base of data (historical, current, and predicted) from which to work.
  • one or more controllable devices 300 or sensors 200 may be operatively associated with one or more self-propelled robotic devices (not shown in the figures) .
  • These robotic devices may be permanently deployed within a downhole well and mobile in the well and its zones. Additionally, these robotic devices may also be configured to traverse zones within a well such as well 640; wells in a field such as wells 640, 641, and 642; or exit the well altogether for other uses such as subsea or surface uses or retrieval.
  • SCADA 11 may be configurably distributed in one or more robotic devices because they are intelligent real world devices 110. For example, robotic devices may be viewed by SCADA 11 as controllable devices 310 like other controllable devices 300 described herein above and controlled accordingly.
  • the present invention is used to manage oilfield hydrocarbon production from boreholes, specifically to automatically optimize production of fluids from one or more zones in one or more wells in accordance with one or more production goals with a minimum of human intervention when presented with sensed readings of the process environment internal to the well process such as temperature, salinity, or pressure, and/or external to the well process but important nonetheless such as providing economic data, weather data, or any other data relevant to production management.

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La présente invention est utilisée pour gérer la production d'hydrocarbures de champs pétrolifères provenant de forages, spécifiquement pour optimiser automatiquement la production de fluides provenant d'un ou de plusieurs puits en fonction d'un ou de plusieurs objectifs de production présentés avec des valeurs d'environnement de processus internes au processus de forage, tels que température, salinité ou pression; ou externes au processus de forage mais néanmoins importantes, telles des données économiques, météorologiques ou d'autres données ayant trait à la gestion de la production. La présente invention permet de détecter et d'adapter automatiquement les conditions de processus internes et externes, et de régler automatiquement des paramètres de fonctionnement pour optimiser la production du puits de forage avec un minimum d'intervention humaine. La gestion de production d'hydrocarbures de champs pétrolifères peut être mise en oeuvre par des systèmes situés en fond de trou, à la surface, sous la mer, à distance, ou par une combinaison de ces systèmes, et comporte au moins une des caractéristiques suivantes: dispositifs de forage intelligents et non intelligents tels qu'outils de commande de flux, pompes intelligentes et capteurs; bases de données de stockage de connaissances comprenant des bases de données historiques, de modèles de réservoirs, et de normes de puits de forage; et logiciel de commande de supervision et d'acquisition de données comportant au moins un des éléments suivants: objectifs de gestion de production d'hydrocarbures de champs pétrolifères, un ou plusieurs modèles de traitement, et, éventuellement, un ou plusieurs objets de logiciel intelligent de poursuite d'objectif.
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