Abstract In an increasingly complex and highly capital-intensive oil and gas industry, achieving operational excellence and maintaining a competent workforce are critical for sustainable business performance. Globally, talent attraction and retention in the oil and gas industry have been challenging with the associated variability in the business outcomes across different well delivery teams. The paper explores how standardization and simplification in well design and maturation processes can serve as a strategic enabler to optimize well resources, mitigate risks, and enhance personnel competence management. The paper starts out with demonstrating the business case that justified an update to the well delivery process – optimization of well project maturation process, resulting in the achievement of predictable competitive business outcomes across different well delivery teams, effective integration with supply chain of well equipment and services, and improved operational efficiency. The technical paper shows how the updated Well Delivery Process was implemented by the operator in Nigeria to account for expected maturation phase deliverables, assurance framework, implementation of standard operating procedures or practices, and application of collaborative digital tools. The adoption of an updated Well Delivery Process promoted consistency, reduced variability, and accelerated decision-making across the lifecycle of well delivery. Through this workflow, the team ensured that a complete set of assured subsurface data was available from the start of the project to screen the standard solutions library. The outcome of this screening – the standard or non-standard well concept (well architecture and standard practices) was assured by the technical authorities. This update brought efficiency into the well delivery process and help positioned the Well Delivery team to contribute effectively towards reducing the timeline of the opportunity maturation cycle, from 6 - 8+ years to 2 – 4 years. The application of the standard operating practices in wells, reservoir, and facilities management (WRFM) activities over the last three years has helped the operator restore about 5, 000bbl/day and 33MMscf/day of oil and gas production respectively, resulting in over 1. 6million cost savings. The paper has brought to fore the unique benefits of implementing an updated Well Delivery Process by the Operator. It demonstrates that by leveraging standard solutions, organizational learning and supply chain integration, the exercise has helped with the delivery of consistent and competitive design and execution of well projects.
Georgé et al. (Mon,) studied this question.