A review of a few GOM oils established that, as had been previously seen in the Middle East, the paramagnetic signature consistently correlated with asphaltene content. This gave confidence to use the signature as a potential input for offshore production decisions. One new challenge for the offshore analysis, however, was that multiple wells on the seabed were commingled to two risers coming to the surface and the asphaltene sensor was plumbed to only one of those risers. To meet this challenge, it proved very beneficial to be able to integrate the asphaltene data with other real-time data traditionally available to the operator, such as well alignments. The integrated results were then viewable on a dedicated vendor dashboard as well as on the operator’s SEEQ dashboard.

Communication with SEEQ can be bidirectional.