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1 MURPHY EXPLORATION & PRODUCTION COMPANY

Examining How to Cost Efficiently Deliver Chemicals For Paraffin And Corrosion Treatment On Rod Pumps And Success In Reducing Failure

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Presented by: Leslie Malone Senior Staff Engineer

July 29-30, 2016 Houston, Texas

Production Chemical Optimization Congress


Agenda

S  DataManagement•  Ar#ficialli*failuredatabase•  Infrastructure(IntegrityandFlowAssurance)database•  Wellworkandtreatmentrecords

S  Con,nuousImprovements•  Databasemigra#on•  Op#miza#onofchemicals

S  Challenges•  Oilandgasprice•  Opexreduc#on•  OffsetFrac’s


Murphy Oil-Eagle Ford Operations

S  Over150,000acresS  650producingoilwellsS  550suckerrodpumpsS  H2SRange0to7%S  CO20to10%S  Geographicallydispersed

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Rod Pump Challenges in the Eagle Ford

S  DepthS  TemperatureS  ParaffinS  CorrosionS  SolidsS  DeviatedVer,calSec,onS  SlugFlowS  FoamyGassyFluidS  OffsetFracs


Data Management

S  Createthedatabase•  Downholesystem•  Subsystems

S  Maintainthedatabase•  Discipline•  Accuracy

S  Failureanalysis•  Vendors•  Fieldreports

S  KPI’s•  Failurefrequency•  MTBF

S  Crossfunc,onal•  Reservoir•  Integrity

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Corrosion Failures Identified


Root Cause of Failure Documented

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Parrafin Issues Identified


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Integration of Failure Data

S  IntegrityandFlowAssuranceDataBase•  Mappingofpipelinesystem•  Centralfacili#es•  Centralizedtreatments

S  CorrelateDownholeandSurfaceFailures•  Mappipelinefailuresagainstdownholefailures•  Concentratepreven#veefforts

S  Trackandscheduletreatments•  BatchTreatments•  CapStringTreatments•  WellWorkTreatments


S  MigrateFailureDataBase

•  Restructureddatabase•  Analy#cs

S  Op,mizeChemicalUsage

•  Focuson“hot”areasiden#fiedbydata

•  Protectthesubsurfaceasset

•  Reduceopexforchemicalsandrepairs

Continuous Improvement


Challenges

S  UncertainoilandgaspricesS  PressuretoreduceOpexdollarsS  VendorservicesS  ReducedstaffS  OffsetFrac’s


Questions

S  ThankyoutoMurphy’sAr,ficialLiJandIntegrityManagementTeams


Practical Applications ChemicalPumps

S  FitforpurposeS  MaintenanceS  Injec#onRate

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Practical Applications

S  Installedat5000‘S  ConnectedS  PluggedS  Failures

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Practical Applications

S  ManagementS  TrackingS  KPI’s

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