Crescent Petroleum has let a contract to SLB to deploy its proprietary FDPlan digital field development planning tools under a new 3-yr agreement.

Marking the first commercial adoption of SLB's FDPlan agile field development planning solution in the Middle East and North Africa, this latest contract award builds on Crescent Petroleum’s existing use of SLB's Delfi digital platform for reservoir engineering workflows, the service provider said.

FDPlan brings subsurface, wells, facilities, production, cost, and economics workflows into a shared digital environment so multidisciplinary teams can evaluate development scenarios together.

Crescent Petroleum’s existing use of the Delfi digital platform has already delivered measurable gains in reservoir analysis. Using cloud-enabled, scalable high-performance computing, the operator reduced simulation times for selected large dual-porosity and dual-permeability reservoir models involving millions of grid cells from about 6 hr to about 50 min, according to the service provider.

Within a single month of implementing the Delfi platform, Crescent Petroleum's teams completed roughly 140 simulation runs, including history matching and prediction, compared with about 20 runs under the operator's previous computing environment, SLB said.

The new deployment under this latest contract award extends that digital approach from reservoir analysis into broader field development planning, connecting more disciplines and decision points within a common workflow.

Crescent Petroleum has Middle East projects in Iraq, Dubai, UAE, Yemen, and Oman and North African projects in Egypt.

Neither the operator nor SLB identified specific regional projects covered under the new contract.