Crude oil water content serves as a critical indicator for measuring oil quality, directly impacting production cost control, equipment operational efficiency, and downstream processing benefits. Since the beginning of this year, the gathering and transportation team from the Fifth Operations Area of Oil Production Plant No. 7 has focused on enhancing crude oil output efficiency by innovating management approaches and optimizing operational procedures, successfully reducing output oil water content from 3‰ to 2‰. This achievement not only effectively lowered production energy consumption and equipment operational load but also demonstrated the practical implementation of the management philosophy "achieving excellence through attention to detail."
**Securing the "Source Gateway" Through Precise Control and Load Reduction**
The gathering and transportation team anchored their core objective on "source water content control," implementing pre-emptive management requirements throughout the entire oil production process. By strengthening on-site operational standards and process management at oil stations, they clearly required personnel to strictly control key indicators, maintaining oil outlet water content between 15% and 25%. Simultaneously, leveraging real-time production data, they dynamically fine-tuned dehydrator drainage volumes, optimizing equipment operational status while reducing processing load on dehydrators from the source, effectively avoiding water content exceedance risks and achieving quality improvement and efficiency gains at the production front-end.
**Utilizing the "Monitoring Station" for Real-time Alerts and Stable Operations**
The team fully leveraged the laboratory's core functions as both a "monitoring center" and "early warning outpost," establishing a robust "sensing defense line" for precise water content control. They strictly implemented a monitoring mechanism requiring sampling of aged oil from dehydrator output every two hours. Upon detecting upward trends in water content rates, immediate alerts were triggered and reported to team leaders, while coordinating with dehydration stations to adjust processing volumes promptly, striving to achieve early detection, intervention, and resolution of water content anomalies to ensure continuous, stable, and efficient production operations.
**Maintaining the "Final Control Gate" Through Scheduled Slag Removal for Quality Enhancement**
Focusing on establishing the final quality defense line before crude oil output, the team strengthened terminal control at dehydration stations by innovatively implementing scheduled slag removal methods. They conducted slag removal operations three times daily at key intervals - morning, noon, and evening - promptly clearing transition layers within dehydrators to fundamentally prevent accumulation that could affect dehydration effectiveness. Through coordinated collaboration among oil stations, laboratory stations, and dehydration stations, they constructed a comprehensive closed-loop water content management system, achieving water content reduction exceeding expected targets and providing solid assurance for output crude oil quality.
The one-thousandth reduction in water content reflects not only precise coordination among stations but also demonstrates meticulous responsibility and accountability. Moving forward, the gathering and transportation team from the Fifth Operations Area of Oil Production Plant No. 7 will continue leveraging refined management as their foundation, persistently exploring cost reduction and efficiency improvement pathways, contributing superior performance to high-quality development in the new era of oil field operations.