Denis Drolet Vermilion Energy Inc

1. Vermilion Energy Inc.
Denis Drolet, P.Eng. – Senior Operations Engineer, Real Time Operations
OPERATOR ANALYTICS FROM IMPLEMENTING AN OPERATE BY EXCEPTION STRATEGY
May 2022

2. Agenda
• Introduction
• Vermilion Company Overview
• Operate by Exception – The Path Forward
• Why are we going down this path?
• Remote Monitoring Examples
• Basic Analytics
• Task Management
• Advanced Analytics
• Questions
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3. Introduction
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• Denis Drolet, P.Eng. Sr. Operations Engineer
• University of Alberta, Chemical Engineering
• Facilities engineering, production engineering and field operations engineering
background
• Small to big company experience; Tundra, PennWest, ConocoPhillips, Vermilion
• North American focused, with international project involvement
• Four kids, 2-9 years old, life is busy
• Go Oilers!

4. Vermilion Energy - Overview
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• Formed in 1994, IPO in 1997
• International operations “Mini-Major”
• North America, Europe, Australia

5. Operate by Exception - Overview
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• Technology is changing rapidly
• SCADA vs IoT (Radio towers vs Cell networks)
• Optimize Resources
• Personnel, equipment, time, etc.
• Four Main Areas of Opportunity
• Health, Safety and Environmental
• Flow Assurance/Production Optimization
• Operating Costs
• Maintenance Costs
• Data Gathering and Analysis
• Enterprise and Time-series Data combination
• AI and ML

6. Production Optimization Automation
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7. Time Series Data AI
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8. Well Optimization by Trending Time Series Data
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9. Spill Detection and Reduction
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10. Basic Analytics
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 Health Safety and Environment
– Spill Volume per incident
– Operator time per lease
 Flow Assurance
– Downtime (production/well)
– Timer on/off per well
 Operating Costs
– Distance driven per operator
– Operator count per run/route
 Maintenance Costs
– Runtime per pumpjack
– SPM reduction per well

11. Operator (Pumper) Task Management
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12. Form Digitization
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13. Advanced Analytics
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14. Advanced Analytics – Con’t
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 Health Safety and Environment
– Response time to spill
– Operator(pumper) time per lease per run/route
 Flow Assurance
– Well 24 hr well callout by production, netbacks
– Automatic pumpjack speed optimization by setpoint
 Operating Costs
– Task time analysis
– Optimize driving routing per operator(pumper)
 Maintenance Costs
– Pumpjack part mean time to failure analysis
– Predictive downhole pump failure vs stroke count

15. Questions?
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