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Downtime records can be used to model any seasonal interruption in production such as a plant turnaround or a Hurricane season. They can also be used to represent general equipment reliability/availability.
Downtime records are asset specific but, where they are used to represent the average statistical effect of reliability/availability as opposed to specific downtime periods, they should not be individually assigned to assets connected in series as their deterministic combination in WellSpring will not be statistically correct.
Downtime records can be accessed from the Downtime link on the URL menu. First, select the asset (or scenario) to apply the downtime record to.
The downtime editor can also be accessed from Data Menu Down-tme Records).
Downtime can be entered month by month, but there are also a variety of in-built methods to model downtime.
Downtime works by reducing the capacity of a facility (if it has a capacity specified) by the percentage for the month indicated. For example, if a facility has a downtime of 10%, then any wells that produce through that facility in that month will only produce 90% of the time (the production is curtailed). See Understanding Curtailment for more information on curtailed production.
Examples:
Hurricane season - You might have a downtime of 20% for three months during this season.
Plant turnaround (1 week) - schedule a downtime of 25% in the month that the turnaround is scheduled.