Smart Well Market Expected to Reach $12.9 Billion by 2031—Allied Market Research

According to a new report published by Allied Market Research, titled, “Smart Well Market," The smart well market was valued at $7.0 billion in 2021, and is estimated to reach $12.9 billion by 2031, growing at a CAGR of 6.6% from 2022 to 2031.

The goal of smart well technology is to avoid expensive routine maintenance interventions such as production logging and planned operations to switch off one zone and open another to production after the primary zone is exhausted. Reliability is therefore a crucial quality of smart wells.

Various approaches are used in place of the traditional drilling technique followed by well completion to enhance output growth which help to increase smart well market share. One sophisticated or contemporary methods is smart well completion, which incorporates permanent downhole sensors and surface-controlled downhole flow control valves to record, assess, and actively manage output in real-time without the need for well interventions. Smart wells industry gives the power to manage reservoir heterogeneity-related uncertainties. Smart well reduces unforeseen sand formation brought on by fractures and hence raise the overall recovery. In a smart well completion, various tools and equipment are designed, chosen, and installed in an efficient manner so that the wells can be put into production while still meeting the operator's field development goals.

A smart well system should be dependable for at least five years, according to industry experts, intervention is prohibitively expensive such as in deep and ultradeep water. The downhole sensors and hardware equipment can function for ten years of the smart well. Therefore, despite its early promise, the smart well market opportunities is to prove itself and has developed slowly as operators simultaneously demand that smart wells demonstrate their dependability and are reluctant to be among the first to install the pricey intelligent completions in their wells.

Although the development in smart wells market industry has been slow. Several service providers, led by the big four of Baker, Schlumberger, Weatherford, and Halliburton, are making progress in developing the downhole components of smart wells as well as in smart well market growth.

The term "intelligent wells" refers to drilling equipment with fiber-optic sensors that can be operated manually by humans on the surface or automatically by closed-loop information systems. These sensors send out a continuous stream of information about the well and its surroundings, allowing operators to react in real time to changing conditions. Digital oil field data is loaded into knowledge-management and automated workflow systems, which distribute to the workers who require it to make quick decisions. With the increasing development in digitization of well completion is boosting the smart well trends in the forecasted period. Information from the past and the present can be connected to corporate knowledge. The current features of smart well boosting the smart well market size.

With the aid of computer power, digital transformation in the oil and gas industry could take off in new areas. The digital transition may eventually result in a large loss of skilled people in the oil and gas industry. All of this happens to concentrate on improving its operations as a result of the oil and gas industry's operational transformation. Oil and gas industry's digital and operational transformation is resulting in better efficiency and operations which is boosting the revenue in smart well market forecast. Smart well built on the seamless integration of organizational technology with cloud-based analytics and vast amounts of data which help in decision making. On the basis of component, the market is segmented into hardware and software. The hardware segment garnered 64.5% in terms of revenue and software is expected to grow at the highest CAGR of 6.8% during the forecast period. Hardware products are in greater demand due to its extensive use in smart well. The software segment retains more CAGR than the hardware, as more development has been development has been achieved by smart well service provider in the software segment to optimize the insight.

On the basis of technology, the hydraulics based system segment garnered 56.6% in terms of revenue and electric based systems is expected to grow at the highest CAGR of 6.8% during the forecast period. The acceptance of hydraulics based system is more in the oil and gas industry. The electric based systems retains more CAGR than the hydraulics based system, as optimization on electric based system is easy.

On the basis of application, the offshore segment garnered 78.9% in terms of revenue and expected to grow at a CAGR of 6.6% during the forecast period. Rising deep water drilling and production activities is driving the market growth. On the basis of region, the Asia-Pacific garnered 37.6% share in terms of revenue and anticipated to grow at a CAGR of 7.6% during the forecast period. China has strong presence in South China Sea. Chinese oil & gas companies have come across with gas fields with reserves of around 300 billion tons along with oil fields reserves of around 200 million tons of oil.

The smart well market is segmented into component, technology, and region. On the basis of by component, the market is classified into hardware and software. Hardware is further segment by type in inflow control valve or interval control valve (ICVS), electric submersible pump (ESP), plugs and packers and sensors. Sensors are further segmented into wellbore internal sensors and casing external sensors. Software is further segmented into data acquisition system (DAS), distributed temperature system (DTS and intelligent panel view) and distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) technology. On the basis of technology, market is segmented into electric systems and hydraulics based system. On the basis of application, market is segmented into offshore and onshore. Region-wise, the market is analyzed across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and LAMEA. The smart well market share is analyzed across all significant regions and countries and segments.

The smart well market analysis covers in-depth information of the major industry participants. Some of the major players in the smart well market include Schlumberger Limited., ABB, Baker Hughes Company, Halliburton., Equinor ASA and among others. Other players in the Smart well market are Weatherford, Siemens, NOV Inc., Emerson Electric Co. , General Electric, INTECH. and others.

Key findings of the study

• On the basis of component, hardware segment garnered market share of 64.5% in 2021 in terms of revenue
• On the basis of technology, the hydraulics based system segment gained 56.6% share in 2020 in terms of revenue
• On the basis of application, the offshore segment gained 78.9% share in 2020 in terms of revenue
• On the basis of region, the Asia-Pacific region garnered market share of 37.6% in 2020 in terms of revenue