At present, one of the hottest topics in the oil and gas industry is how to use the most sophisticated technology developed by other industries for oil and gas exploration. These technologies have many advanced features, but they often encounter obstacles when applied to the oil and gas industry. This is the opportunity and challenge that people often say. The core issue currently in front of people is how to evaluate the application value of the above new technologies and how to make better use of them.
There are numerous examples of successful application of advanced technologies from other industries to the field of oil and gas exploration, including nanotechnology in the medical field, sensor technology in the defense industry, and high-power electronics technology in the computer industry.
At the luncheon of the 2015 Technology Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) Technology R&D section hosted by SPE in Houston, the banquet staff conducted a deep discussion on how to successfully apply the external crossover technology to the oil and gas field. Experts also discussed the problems that existed in the process of technology transformation. These potential problems also included the difficulty of adopting advanced technologies, so that they could not be effectively transformed.
Partha Ganguly, director of technology innovation at Baker Hughes, said: "More and more technology innovators are heading to the extreme, that is, the products developed are very cool, but they have little effect on large-scale production."
Ganguly pointed out that for a new technology, in order to successfully commercialize its operations, its technological achievements must be able to achieve mass production. The best example is the soluble fracturing ball developed by Baker Hughes. In the horizontal well completion process, the soluble fracturing ball abandoned the milling process of the old technology. For this reason, the technology has completed 90,000 hydraulic fracturing in North America since it was put on the market in 2011.
In addition, the company has developed a new type of soluble bridge plug that further enables the separation between the segment and the middle section of the fracturing without the need for milling, further reducing the time from fracturing to initial oil/gas testing. . Baker Hughes expects sales of the device to reach 10,000 units next year.
John Barratt, CEO of the Oil and Gas Innovation Center, emphasized the importance of leveraging technology from other industries. Headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., the company's primary role is to identify other industry technologies that may be used in the oil and gas industry.
Barratt said that companies should conduct appropriate research activities on external technologies and accelerate their technological development through understanding and digesting cutting-edge technologies, thereby benefiting enterprises. Another advantage is that the above work can promote the formation of innovative thinking, and Being able to quickly access new technologies with competitive advantages can also save on the cost of technology development.
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Through the survey, we found that companies that develop their own technologies often need to pay $5-10 million for this, and the use of external technology as a powerful lever to incite our own research and development results will save the company a lot of money.
In the near future, among all the technologies that can be applied to the oil and gas industry, the most likely “outreaching†is the additive manufacturing technology, which is more commonly known as 3D printing. ExOne CTO Rick Lucas said that, like his company, using 3D printing technology to process parts can save 50% to 90%.
At the same time, companies are realizing that the parts processed by 3D printing technology will have twice the service life of conventional machined parts. More importantly, 3D printing technology is not limited by price conditions during the design phase of components.
Rick Lucas said that for traditional processes and their manufacturing methods, as the complexity of components increases, so does the cost. However, as a non-traditional additive manufacturing method, there is no such problem, and the manufacturing cost of a complicated component does not rise to any extent as compared with the manufacturing cost of a linear component.
With the continuous iterative update of 3D printing technology, the 3D printing industry is developing rapidly. Rick Lucas said that his company's 3D printer printing parts were only 5 cubic feet per hour, but now it has risen to 15 cubic feet per hour, which means that under the same capital, the company Can provide customers with more parts.
Another benefit of 3D printing technology is the reshaping of costly, long-distance supply chain systems. In most cases, the 3D printing supply chain is centrally distributed, especially in the United States, where there are many technology-leading 3D printing companies and technology R&D centers. This layout reduces both carbon emissions and distribution costs in the supply chain. It is expected that in the future, as the processing and manufacturing needs gradually tilt toward 3D printing technology, the traditional oilfield equipment manufacturing sector may collapse.
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