This work describes how microbiology surveillance can be used to drive improvements in unconventional assets. Various microbiology enumeration tools are compared in different case histories for well workovers, surface facilities and production sites. When correctly deployed, new tools and strategies for microbiology management can be powerful resources to further risk assess operations and improve understanding of operating envelopes for safe and reliable production.

Keywords:
upstream oil & gas, united states government, subsurface corrosion, riser corrosion, australia government, atp amp, operational excellence, health & medicine, flowline corrosion, microbiology
Subjects:
Pipelines, Flowlines and Risers, Information Management and Systems, Materials and corrosion, Well Integrity, Subsurface corrosion (tubing, casing, completion equipment, conductor)
Copyright 2023, Society of Petroleum Engineers DOI 10.2118/217331-MS
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