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An introduction to this special section

Instrumented Oil Fields

Guillaume Cambois

ali.tura@4thwaveimaging.com

gcambois@cgg.com

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The instrumented oil field consists of deploying permanent instrumentation to monitor an oil field and modify production continuously or on demand. This concept has evolved from recent advances in both downhole permanent instrumentation and time-lapse monitoring. Both of these technologies are new, and combining them, with permanent installations in mind, requires further steps in research and development. As a result, this special section on the instrumented oil field can be viewed as a "road ahead" section to help the reader to construct not only a vision of the instrumented oil field but also to become familiar with the many issues surrounding this new technology.

The objective of instrumenting an oil field is to optimize production and minimize development and operations costs through early investment in continuous monitoring of a field. In deep water and ultradeep water, where well costs can reach $50 million, instrumenting an oil field early on could considerably improve the bottom line economics. In this case, both the investments required and the potential returns are large. On land, oil fields can be instrumented much . . . [Full Text of this Article]