An intelligent oil and gas well monitoring system based on Internet of Things

The oil and gas industrial sector is nowadays inclined towards utilizing smart field technologies for optimizing various operations of upstream, midstream and downstream sectors. The recent advances in Internet of things (IoTs) have promising benefits and advantages over manual wired/wireless systems. Oil and gas wells form an important element of upstream sector. After identifying potential viable fields and drilling of exploratory oil and gas wells, wellhead monitoring is another essential and crucial activity not only for safe operation and productivity but also for extending the production life of these wells. In this paper we propose an intelligent IoT based monitoring system which involves smart objects for reliable and efficient monitoring of oil and gas wells. The smart IoT objects are capable of sensing important parameters like pressure temperature, vibration etc. and reliably, efficiently and timely deliver the sensed data to the control center. The proposed system proactively reports about the anomalous events for predictive maintenance of the well equipment. The detection and reporting catastrophic failures and destructive events on time will increase production downtime and also oil theft can be easily prevented.

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