Intelligent Field with SAP UFAM

TerraLink offers a dedicated solution for integrated upstream production management, automating all intelligent field processes—from production planning and modeling to financial and economic accounting.

Implementing an intelligent field helps reduce asset development costs and increase oil and gas production, while improving the accuracy and efficiency of planning and forecasting for field development and operations.

As the core platform for building a digital field, we use SAP UFAM (Upstream Field Activity Manager)—an expert analytics solution that enables specialists across disciplines to evaluate development options and quickly build an optimal work plan, adjusting it promptly when needed.

The solution supports end-to-end, integrated models of the reservoir, wells, and infrastructure; unified network schedules of activities; and financial and economic models. It leverages both real-time sensor data and years of accumulated field and equipment operating history.

Core functionality

1) Integrated analytics

• Analysis and recommendations to optimize field development

• Selection of activities for well interventions (GTM), artificial lift optimization (GNO), pipeline optimization, and routine maintenance

• Validation of source data completeness and accuracy

• Production forecasting, economic efficiency assessment, and risk evaluation for proposed activities

2) Integrated planning

• Automatic creation of a consolidated plan across all operational areas

• Plan calculation configuration based on criteria, constraints, parameters, rules, and optimization algorithms

• Production forecast calculation using an integrated model; integrated plan results calculation (costs, activities, efficiency)

• Versioning, storage, and comparative analysis of plan scenarios

3) Integrated modeling

• A continuously maintained integrated model (reservoir, near-wellbore zone, well, artificial lift, gathering system, water injection)

• Constraints model: current potentials, bottlenecks, and forecasts based on the integrated plan

4) Monitoring

• Execution control of planned activities

• Layer-based visualization of assets and activities on a map

• Real-time monitoring of asset performance

• Triggering operating scenarios in response to different events

Solution advantages

Many solutions on the market automate individual tasks, but aligning plans across departments is often still done manually and requires multiple iterations. The key advantage of SAP UFAM is its ability to build interconnected activity plans and quickly adjust them when circumstances change.

Integration

SAP UFAM supports integration with other SAP products and applications, as well as with major industrial automation and process control systems (DCS/SCADA). To ensure the required performance, we recommend using SAP HANA, deployed either in your own data center or in the cloud. SAP HANA makes it possible to model scenarios and generate decision-support reports in minutes.