• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Vista Projects

Integrated Engineering Consulting

  • Engineering
    • Integrated Services
      • Multi-Discipline Engineering
      • Drafting and Design
      • Project Services
      • Project Execution Planning
      • Quality Assurance
    • Consulting
      • Cost Reduction
      • Forensic Engineering
      • Estimating Services
      • Modularization Optimization
  • System Integration
    • Digital Engineering Environments
    • Truth-Based Engineering
  • Technology Partnerships
    • Sulphur Polymer Production
  • Markets
    • In-Situ Heavy Oil
    • Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)
    • Produced Water Treatment
    • Cogeneration
    • Gas Processing
    • Pads and Pipelines
    • Conventional Oil
    • Midstream Infrastructure
    • Refining
    • Biofuels
    • Mineral Processing
    • Petrochemicals
  • Projects
  • Resources
    • Media Library
    • Engineering Symbology
    • Terminology Glossary
    • Technical Writing Tips
    • Blog
  • About
    • About
    • Careers
    • Senior Management Team
    • Leadership at Vista
    • Board of Directors
    • Health, Safety & the Environment
    • Community
  • Contact
Home > Projects > Well Pad Design

Project Profile

Well Pad Design

well pad design

Overview

Vista was tasked by a client to reinvent the conventional engineering design basis for well pads. To accomplish the task, our team focused on quantity reduction, process simplification, and modularization optimization and standardization. This approach proved to be a critical success factor in transforming the total installation costThe total installed cost refers to the final cost of designing, fabricating and building a capital project or industrial asset. Various phas… (TIC) for the client’s well pad designs.

Client

Cenovus Energy

Project/Facility

Christina Lake is a largescale processing facility that uses in-situ steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) technology to extract bitumen.

Situation

As thermal in-situ assets are developed, they require new wells to be installed to sustain and grow production.

The significant quantity of new wells brought on-stream provides an opportunity to take advantage of economies of scale through standardization and transitioning from fabrication to manufacturing style processes.

Solution

Vista started the work with a Zero-Base mentality.

In this approach, our teams relied on decades of experience and lessons learned to develop a fit-for-purpose design that includes only the necessary components. The design modularization enables installation in a manner that results in the most efficient total cost of ownershipThe total cost of ownership refers to the total cost of owning an industrial asset throughout its full lifecycle, from design and construc… (TCO).

Outcomes

The new well pad design resulted in a TIC savings of 40% compared to the previous generation well pad. A significant contributor to the cost reduction was field execution being shortened by several months.

Equipment & Technology

The well pad design was developed to intrinsically support the full lifecycle of operations, from steam circulation and production to end-of-cycle enhanced oil recovery technologies.

Our designs support natural and artificial lift technologies (gas lift, PCP, ESP, plunger, etc.).

Among other items, the design development includes:
• Group and test separators
• Well production control modules
• Steam let down stations
• Circulation transfer pumps
• Line heaters

More Highlighted Projects

Click below for more project profiles that highlight our engineering consulting capabilities in a variety of industrial engineering markets. 

SAGD Heavy Crude Oil Processing

Largescale Heavy Oil Processing Facility

Read More
torrefied wood pellets

Wood Pellet Plant

Read More
SAGD Greenfield Expansion

Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) Greenfield Expansion

Read More

Have a similar engineering need?
Contact us to learn how we can help your project.

Consult Request

Primary Sidebar

Footer

Engineering

  • Integrated Engineering
  • Multi-Discipline Engineering
  • Civil Structural Engineering
  • I&C Engineering
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Piping Engineering
  • Process Engineering
  • Drafting and Design
  • Project Services
  • Quality Assurance

Consulting

  • Engineering Consultants
  • System Integration
  • Digital Engineering Environments
  • Truth-Based Engineering
  • Cost Reduction
  • Modularization Optimization
  • Forensic Engineering & Expert Witness Services
  • Estimating Services

Where We Work

  • Where We Work
  • In-Situ Heavy Oil
  • Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)
  • Produced Water Treatment
  • Cogeneration
  • Gas Processing
  • Pads and Pipelines
  • Conventional Oil
  • Midstream Infrastructure
  • Refining
  • Biofuels
  • Mineral Processing
  • Petrochemicals

About

  • About
  • Careers
  • Senior Management Team
  • Leadership at Vista
  • Board of Directors
  • Health, Safety & the Environment
  • Community

Resources

  • Media Library
  • Engineering Drawing Symbols
  • Terminology Glossary
  • Technical Writing
  • Blog
  • Linkedin
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Pinterest

Calgary Engineering Firm
330-4000 4 St SE
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
T2G 2W3

Houston Engineering Firm
15915 Katy Fwy #645
Houston, TX 77094
United States

energy-safety-logo
ISO_9001
© Vista Projects Limited | Online Privacy Policy | Copyright Notice | Sitemap
Site by Turkey Burg Creative