Enhanced production management, optimized operations and improved performance surveillance
About Virtuoso
Wood provides robust, real-time online and offline digital tools for the efficient management of oil & gas operations. Virtuoso® is a field-proven suite of software tools with more than 25 years of successful performance in the field. Our purpose-built Virtuoso-based solutions provide a variety of operational and commercial functionalities based on the unique challenges of each of our clients’ installations. Our solutions are designed to address the most complex single and multiphase gathering, production, transportation and processing issues.
Customers use Virtuoso for online asset operations performance management and virtual well flow metering. It is also used for performing engineering studies, operator training and simulation of integrated assets, including wells, pipelines and processing facility operations both onshore and offshore. Virtuoso provides vital monitoring and advisory functions, ensures operational integrity, enables production operations management and optimization, provides times performance assessment, and facilitates planning, forecasting and data analysis.
More than 150 Virtuoso systems have been deployed over the last 25+ years for onshore and offshore black oil and gas condensate operations worldwide, including helping our clients manage over 30% of the global LNG production
Typical Applications
REAL-TIME, ONLINE USES
• Single-phase and multiphase production and processing operations
• Virtual multiphase metering & allocation
• Well integrity, operating guideline & control
• Asset performance surveillance and optimization
• Integrated asset performance monitoring and control (pore-to-process)
• Flow management and data analytics, including steady-state & transients
• Flow assurance advisory, including:
• Slugging and liquid accumulation
• Wax formation & deposition
• Hydrate propensity assessment and inhibition
• Chemical inhibitor dosage and concentration tracking
• Composition tracking and blending management
• Corrosion hot spot monitoring
• Others
• Energy Transfer and CCUS applications, including CO2 and hydrogen
• Pipeline leak detection and location
• Flow restriction and blockage detection
• Production balancing and reconciliation
• Topsides/Plant process monitoring, control and optimization
• Equipment condition monitoring and optimization
• Pipeline linepack management & capacity assessment
• Gas processing plant blending and optimization
• Field instrument analytics and failure detection
• Data-driven analytics
OFFLINE USE
• Engineering simulator to develop operating procedures, study control philosophy
• Planning and evaluating future asset expansions
• Feasibilities studies, including CO2 and H2 transport
• Operator Training System (OTS), including integrated solutions with VP Link
Online Modules
• Virtuoso/Advise – operations and process advisory
• Virtuoso/Control – closed-loop operations with SCADA/DCS
• Virtuoso/CRoC LDS – Condition Rate of Change Leak Detection
• Virtuoso/EOR-SAGD – steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) operations
• Virtuoso/Gas Lift – gas lift operations
• Virtuoso/Forecast – operations and process forecasting & prediction
• Virtuoso/LDS – leak detection system (RTTM & Hybrid)
• Virtuoso/Monitor – operations and process monitoring
• Virtuoso/Optimize – operations and process optimization
• Virtuoso/VMS – virtual metering system
Offline Modules
• Virtuoso/Design – offline analysis of single-phase and multiphase pipelines
• Virtuoso/CCS – analysis of H2 and CO2 systems
• Virtuoso/ES – engineering simulator
• Virtuoso/OTS – operator training simulator