Hart Energy 高级技术编辑 Jennifer Pallanich：石油行业正在寻求自动化。我和 WaterLens 的 Keith Cole 一起来听听如何实现采出水处理的自动化。目前采出水面临哪些挑战？

Water Lens 首席执行官兼创始人 Keith Cole：所以基本的挑战是水总是在变化，尤其是采出水，它充满了盐度固体，导致化学成分每分钟都在变化。因此，您没有可以一直使用的标准质量。您可以一致地测量它，以使其与您的化学物质兼容。

JP：这听起来真的很复杂。

KC：有一点。是的。

JP：所以你是在井场测量的？

KC：所以我们有一个任何人都可以使用的现场系统。总是向我10岁的女儿吹嘘这样做了。他们不再是10岁了，但当他们10岁时他们就做到了。因此，任何人都可以轻松做到这一点，无需化学学位，并获得与专业实验室相同的质量，并且您可以在 10 分钟内获得结果。因此，现在您可以利用非常准确的数据做出实时决策。

JP：好的。这样您就获得了准确的数据。自动化在哪里发挥作用？

KC：因此，随着水的不断变化，压裂混合物、减阻剂、表面活性剂以及用于优化石油生产和减少井下结垢、腐蚀和问题的所有不同化学品都会受到水的影响。如果水总是在变化，您需要进行实时分析来做到这一点。我们可以提供。我们很快就会推出一个系统，我们将在线进行实时分析，然后将其与泵和化学品联系起来，您可以进行实时调整，而无需有人真正考虑，根据他们的直觉做出决定，他们根据数据和我们提供的数据做出决定。

JP：好的。所以一切都与数据有关。

KC：都是关于数据，以及针对生产优化数据的。

JP：好的。您能告诉我未来的发展方向吗？

KC：嗯，既然我们在德克萨斯州，显然西德克萨斯州和南德克萨斯州是很好的起点，但当然这是一个全球性的问题。每个人都需要实时水质。他们需要能够依赖它，以便能够快速做出决策，而我们的系统正是提供这一点的系统。

JP：看来我们面前有一个有趣的路线图，用于测试和自动化围绕采出水的决策。非常感谢你的解释。

KC：谢谢。对于我们的行业来说，这是一个非常激动人心的时刻，我们对我们开发的所有这些技术的未来充满期待。

JP：这就是我，詹妮弗·帕拉尼奇，主持这一集的 Hart Energy Live 独家节目。

Jennifer Pallanich, senior technology editor, Hart Energy: The oil industry is on the hunt for automation. I’m here with Keith Cole of WaterLens to hear how handling produced water can be automated. What are some of the challenges right now when it comes to produced water?

Keith Cole, CEO and founder, Water Lens: So the basic challenge is that water is always changing, especially produced water, it’s very full of salinity solids that cause the chemistry to change on a minute by minute basis. So you don’t have a standard quality you can use all the time. You can measure it consistently in order to make it compatible with your chemistry.

JP: That sounds really complicated.

KC: A little bit. Yes.

JP: So you measure it at the well site?

KC: So we have an onsite system that anyone can use. Always brag to my 10-year-old daughters did this. They’re not 10 anymore, but when they were 10 they did it. And so it’s that easy that anyone can do it without a chemistry degree and get the same quality you can get from a professional laboratory, and you get it within 10 minutes. So now you can make real time decisions with very accurate data.

JP: Okay. So you’ve got this accurate data. Where does automation fit into the picture?

KC: So as your water’s constantly changing, the frac cocktail, the friction reducers, surfactants, all the different chemicals you use to optimize oil production and reduce scale, corrosion and problems down hole are affected by the water. If the water’s always changing, you need a real time analysis to do that. We can provide that. We’ve got a system coming out shortly that we’ll do real-time analysis in line, and then you tie that to your pumps and your chemicals, and you can make real time adjustments without having somebody actually think about it, make a decision based on their gut, and they make the decision on data and data that we provide.

JP: Okay. So it’s all about the data.

KC: All about the data, and about optimizing it for production.

JP: Okay. And is there anything you can tell me about where this might be going in the future?

KC: Well, being that we’re in Texas, obviously West Texas and South Texas are the good locations to start, but certainly it’s a global nature. Everyone needs real-time water quality. They need to be able to rely on it so they can make fast decisions and our system is the one that provides that.

JP: So it looks like we have an interesting roadmap ahead of us for testing and automating decisions around produced water moving forward. Thank you so much for explaining that.

KC: Thank you. It’s a very exciting time for our industry and we look forward to the future that’s coming out of all this technology we’ve developed.

JP: And that's me, Jennifer Pallanich, with this episode of a Hart Energy Live Exclusive.