尽管运营商总是想要更多有关其生产的数据，但获取流入生产信息并不容易。从历史上看，它需要关闭油井或使用干预设备。

这两种方法都有各自的问题。如果可以避免的话，操作员不想停止生产，并且使用干预设备会影响流程。

“当您使用井内工具传输干预技术并尝试测量流量时，它实际上会在井中产生巨大的阻塞，因此机械系统的流入测量实际上并不能为您提供真实的流量指示。雷斯曼能源技术公司首席执行官邦妮·鲍威尔告诉哈特能源公司。

Although operators always want more data about their production, getting inflow production information isn’t easy. Historically, it has required shutting in a well or using intervention equipment.

Both methods are problematic in their own ways. Operators don’t want to shut down production if they can avoid it and using intervention equipment affects the flow.

“When you convey intervention technology with a tool in hole and you try to measure flow, it's actually creating a huge choke back in your well, so that your inflow measurement from a mechanical system is not actually giving you a true flow indication from the bottom of your well,” RESMAN Energy Technology CEO Bonnie Powell told Hart Energy.