A NEW MATHEMATICAL MODEL FOR THE WORKOVER RIG SCHEDULING PROBLEM

ABSTRACT One of the most important activities in the oil and gas industry is the intervention in wellsfor maintenance services, which is necessary to ensure the constant production of oil. These interventions are carried out by workover rigs. Thus, the Workover Rig Scheduling Problem (WRSP) consists of finding the best schedule to service the wells while considering the limited number of rigs with the objective of minimizing the total production loss. In this study, a 0-1 integer linear programming model capable of efficiently solving the WRSP with a homogeneous fleet of rigs is proposed. Computational experiments were carried out using instances based on real cases in Brazil to compare the results obtained by the proposed model with the results reported by other methods. The proposed model was capable of solving all instances considered in a reduced computational time, including the large instances for which only approximatesolutions were presently known.

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Main Authors: Pérez,Miguel, Oliveira,Fabricio, Hamacher,Silvio
Format: Digital revista
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa Operacional 2016
Online Access:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-74382016000200241
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