MF Well Gateway: Digitalization of Wellhead Monitoring for Improved Personnel Safety and Reduced Costs in the Offshore Abandonment Decommissioning Process

The MinFarm LoRaWAN Well Offshore Abandonment Monitoring Solution (MF Well Gateway) significantly increases the quantity and quality of data gathered from abandoned wells while greatly reducing the cost of gathering data during each phase of an abandonment process.

UAE Use Case

MinFarm Tech Ltd and Global Beam Telecom LLC are proud to have supported  RAK Petroleum Authority deploying #LoRaWAN offshore to improve the quantity and quality of data from theirremote unmanned wells offshore. From LinkedIn you can read good user comments on the solution:

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MF Well Gateway meets the following use case requirements

  • Monitoring temporarily abandoned offshore wells
  • Gathering data from old drilled offshore wells before P&A activity starts
  • Monitoring permanently abandoned offshore wells

MF Well Gateway is a proven solution for use on abandoned offshore rigs

MinFarm Tech Ltd, an Irish engineering company with deep domain expertise in LoRaWAN, has developed and deployed a turnkey solution that enables the transmission of pressure data to a customer dashboard from offshore abandoned wells where communication, power and well control equipment has been removed and where no cellular coverage is available.

MF Well Gateway unique features to meet the real time monitoring and operation requirement from a field of abandoned offshore rigs

  1. Provides quality data points: Simple to install wireless pressure sensors: Rated to 5400 psi (0.15% FS) for real time data collection  from Xmas Tree, A Annulus, B Annulus, C Annulus on every rig in the field. 
  2. Supports real time monitoring across a field of rig: Low power 5 km wide area LoRaWAN network will cover multiple rigs during abandonment process from a single Gateway located on a centrally located rig.
  3. ATEX certification for all communication equipment : Zone 0/1 sensors, Zone 2 Gateway, suitable for rig deployment
  4. Autonomous power for all communication equipment: Battery powered LoRaWAN Pressure Sensors (5 year SAFT replaceable battery life). Solar and Battery Powered Communication hub LoRaWAN Gateway (Autonomous and uninterrupted, No rig power required)
  5. No communication network on rig or cellular coverage required: Satellite transmission system on Gateway to shore dashboard (no local LTE network required) 
  6. Easy to install: MF-WellWorks can be rented and deployed simply by field engineers with no background in LoRaWAN or satellite transmission technology, everything comes pre-configured and will work out of the box. Our customers install within hours. 
  7. Feature rich shore based dashboard access: Drilling engineers can view real time data in simple to follow charts with downloadable Excel formats. 
  8. Fits your budget: MF-Well works can be rented at a monthly cost equivalent to one boattrip to an offshore rig, and provide over 1000 times more data points. 

Improves personnel safety: Less rig time gathering data manually means less time your personnel spend in hazardous environments.

How MF Well Gateway  works 

Battery powered LoRaWAN gauges are installed on Xmas Trees along with wellhead side outlets to record pressure data. Data aggregation across a field of wells is possible within a 5 km radius of a centrally located solar powered communications hub ‘Gateway’ on one of the platforms with the LoRaWAN radio protocol. Installation of sensors and Gateway is a very simple set of steps with no field configuration required for data transmission. Transmission of the data from the field is made via Satellite every 5 to 15 minutes (user configurable) to a shore based dashboard for access by customer. Additional dashboard features include: More frequent pressure updates for set periods of time to monitor processes such as bleeding of wells, atmospheric temperature readings from wells, and battery level readings of all equipment.  

How MF Well Gateway saves our customers time and money

A MF Well Gateway solution that monitors a field of wellheads,  will produce nearly 1000 times more data points than would be gathered during a monthly field visit where pressure gauges are recorded manually. The data is sent to the customer dashboard in real time enabling preventive maintenance. Once the solution is installed, no field visits are required providing ongoing savings throughout the lifetime of the abandonment project.

Talk to MinFarm today

Talk to MinFarm today and learn about our existing successful deployments and how they are saving our customers time and money in their well abandonment process. 

Author: Stephen Lynam
MinFarm Middle East Director
Email: stephen@minfarmtech.com 

WhatsApp: +46763253457

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-lynam-b77a04101

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