SOURCES SOUGHT
C -- Automated Measurement and Inventory Reporting of Oil and Gas Production
- Notice Date
- 8/7/2015
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541330
— Engineering Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Interior, National Business Center, AQD - Denver, P.O. Box 272040, Denver, Colorado, 80227-2040, United States
- ZIP Code
- 80227-2040
- Solicitation Number
- 0040216489
- Archive Date
- 8/20/2015
- Point of Contact
- Brenda McGehee, Phone: (303) 969-5240
- E-Mail Address
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brenda_j_mcgehee@ibc.doi.gov
(brenda_j_mcgehee@ibc.doi.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Request for Information The Government requests information regarding the technical capabilities of Small Business Administration (SBA) small business concerns, to perform the requirements outlined below. There is no commitment by the Government to issue a solicitation, make an award, or be responsible for any costs expended by any interested parties in responding to this notice. Information provided herein is subject to change and in no way binds the Government to solicit or award a contract. This is a sources sought notice only and is not a Request for Proposal (RFP). Background. For information purposes only -The Department of Interior's Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) recently concluded an investigation into the advantages of automated measurement reporting of oil and gas streams. ONRR's is responsible for accounting for oil and gas and mineral production on Federal and Indian lands, collecting revenues associated with that production, and dispersing these revenues to the U.S. Treasury and Indian Tribes. The oil and gas industry is installing automated flow measurement and inventory reporting systems, to support their Exploration and Production (E&P) operations. The American Petroleum Institute (API) has recently adopted standards for conducting automated measurement and reporting of oil and gas streams with the passage of API Manual of Petroleum Measurement Standards (MPMS) #21.1 and #21.2, for gas and oil, respectively. The Government needs to investigate the potential for and ability to gather automated measurement and inventory data from a variety of electronic flow measurement computers and tank inventory monitoring systems by conducting a "proof-of-concept" pilot study. The pilot study will feature use of actual oil and gas flow measurement systems (flow computers) information, inventory management systems information, which are tied to communication links, supported by commercial reporting software that allows for "polling" (periodic data collection) from a central site. The proof-of-concept/pilot study will collect data generated from a variety of field locations, operated by a variety of different oil and gas production entities. An analysis of the level of effort and system sizing will be assessed by the contractor in anticipation of rolling-out a full scale data gathering and archiving system for a targeted number of oil and gas properties that are categorized as "high risk". The potential contractor will be required to enroll or enlist oil and gas production companies to participate in the Pilot Study. The companies must represent a wide range of operating environments (onshore production and offshore production, oil production and gas production). The participant companies must be utilizing electronic flow measurement systems, with automated data reporting, tank inventory measurement and reporting, and pipeline pressure measurement/reporting systems. The potential contractor will provide a data acquisition and archiving service to ONRR that displays data from the prescribed electronic flow measurement and reporting systems and allows the data to be downloaded using conventional, commercial database (MS Access or equivalent) and spreadsheet software (MS Excel or equivalent). The contractor shall provide the electronic links for ONRR engineering personnel to access, query and interact with the acquired data set. The contractor shall provide any training, any orientation or instructional classes that are required to acquaint ONRR engineering personnel with the data acquisition and archiving service to support the production of engineering reports on the flow measurement, tank inventory, and pipeline pressure status and data. The potential contractor will operate the data acquisition and archiving system to poll the identified/designated electronic flow measurement, tank inventory and pipeline pressure monitoring systems. Given that a wide variety of electronic flow measurement and tank inventory systems have been developed in recent years, many with their own unique software and electronic file format systems, it is critical the potential contractor standardize these disparate systems into a single, base, standardized report and file format to be retrieved from the Data Acquisition and Archiving System. The potential contractor will be required to assess the feasibility and level of effort required to build and operate a data acquisition system for ONRR to acquire, store and effectively query data for a targeted number of electronic flow measurement, tank inventory and pipeline systems (currently estimated to be less than 7,500 individual devices/systems). The potential contractor is expected to rely on the experience of industry in building and maintaining comparable data acquisition and data archiving systems. This will involve surveying individual oil and gas production companies. The contractor will also be required to interview the customers of the company production measurement database, to determine their level of satisfaction, and to obtain information of any significant flaws or data gaps in the operating history of each company's database. Small business concerns capable of performing the tasks described above must submit all of the following information: Evidence of established relationships with oil and gas companies. Narrative of onshore and offshore experience and capabilities of their Principal Investigator and technical personnel in the area of automated flow measurement and reporting. Evidence of ability to upload a variety of data from differing measurement devices into a single database and then generate a report of engineering flow measurement data that is consistent in terms of appearance and information quality. Past Performance (or current performance) of similar work, including a list of clients and facilities, with reference and contact information. Evidence of leadership in the field of automated flow measurement and reporting (i.e., patents awarded, papers presented, industry awards, recognition from technical societies). This information must be submitted no later than August 19, 2015, at 3 p.m. Mountain Time. Questions must be addressed in writing to Brenda_J_McGehee@ibc.doi.gov. Telephone calls will not be accepted. Concerns who fail to submit the above capabilities will be deemed non-responsive.
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