Getting the Best Out of Online Acoustic Sand Monitoring System: A Practical Method for Quantitative Interpretation

Abstract

Sand Management in the current oil industry trend is one of the important aspects for operators. Managing sand, be it downhole or at surface depending on economic analysis provides an optimised production with proper risk mitigation. Just like for proper hydrocarbon optimisation, accurate monitoring tools such as well test that uses separator or multiphase flow meters are being used and are evolved. Similarly, sand production monitoring is one of the key components during sand management production. Without a proper and reasonably accurate monitoring of sand being produced, it is not possible to manage. With the advent of various techniques of sand monitoring evolved in the last few decades, the industry is moving further on how to improve the new methods of monitoring or utilising the current techniques more effectively. The industry is still struggling to make significant improvements or find new methods of monitoring or more effective application of the current techniques. analogy between sand management and hydrocarbon production and the significance of the same in sand management.