Performance Evaluation for Gas Production Units Based on ANP

Jianhong Gou, Anqi Li, Zhibin Liu, Xinhai Kong, Haohan Liu

Department of Petroleum Engineering, Guang’an Vocational & Technical College, Guang’an, China.
PetroChina Changqing Oilfield Company, Xi’an, China.
School of Graduate, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, China.
School of Graduate, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, China The No. 1 Gas Production Plant, PetroChina Changqing Oilfield Company, Yinchuan, China.
School of Graduate, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, China;Sichuan College of Architectural Technology, Deyang, China,.

DOI: 10.4236/eng.2013.511107                

Abstract

In view of the existing situation of gas field development, one kind of method to evaluate the production performance of gas production units (GPUs) was presented in this paper. Among the commonly used indicators of gas field development, we select 11 indicators from the three aspects of production task, gas reservoir management, and production technology. According to the principle of analytic network process (ANP), this paper introduced one kind of new method to get the weights of indicators. By means of the method of TOPSIS, it is easy to obtain the rankings for all the GPUs through calculating the weighted Euclidean distance between each GPU and the positive or negative ideal point. This evaluation method could constantly improve the management level of gas production units and deepen the delicacy management of gas field development.

Keywords

Gas Production Unit (GPU); Performance Evaluation; Analytic Network Process (ANP); TOPSIS

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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