Virtual Production Planner™

Virtual Production Planner™ (VPP) is a rigorous planning, analysis and optimization module aimed at addressing the needs of the production control group and the long-term planners.

VPP can be delivered fully integrated under the Virtual Pipeline Manager™ or Virtual Asset Manager™ platform(s) or available as a stand alone applications. VPP can be designed to provide the automated generation of a recommended production plan (one-week) for all production nodes based on gas and oil production, delivery and quality requirements, short-term production availability, contractual agreements between supply and delivery points, and line pack management (reliability).

VPP also has a long-term planning (30 days to multiple years) functionality that is performed off-line with the capability to grab current or archived network conditions from an online Virtual Pipeline Manager™ or Virtual Asset Manager™ system. VPP's long-term planning focus is designed for optimization/scheduling of a variety of operating parameters (e.g. tanker load-outs and planned maintenance while balancing gas and oil delivery requirements (volumes and quality); production and processing capacity limits; contracts and penalties; and commodity pricing scenarios).

Short-Term Production Recommendation Screen Virtual Production Planner™

The VPP long-term planner employs a hybrid algorithm from the Virtual Pipeline Manager™ "What-if" Forecast Module to obtain extremely fast run-time speeds. VPP's long-term planner functionality provides the user with a plan for production required from all fields or assets on a user-defined time-basis (e.g. hourly, daily, weekly, monthly or yearly) for the defined simulation period (e.g. days, weeks, months or years). VPP can also be designed to provide the planned deliveries and quality for all take points at the same frequency for the defined period.

When integrated with the Virtual Pipeline Manager™ package, the online VPP system can also be designed to track the operations performance in accordance to the designated Production Plan (i.e., Real-Time, On-Line "Plan Tracking Capability") and can perform "Watch Dog" functions to send an alarm to the production controller or asset managers for nodes or assets deviating from the said Production Plan.