Drilling automation
Improved bit and bottomhole-assembly technologies and designs have helped turn what used to be record-breaking drilling runs into routine expectations.
The project with ExxonMobil used closed-loop drilling and digital well-construction technologies.
Autonomous drilling through managed pressure drilling (MPD) at the Atlantis field has given the operator confidence to scale the method.
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The latest example of the offshore sector's march toward automated wellbore construction will take shape later this year in the North Sea. -
A contest where teams of college students design and build an automated drilling rig able to deal with hazardous obstacles in a test block, showed how a small change can be engineered to matter.
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This paper proposes a metric for quantifying drilling efficiency and drilling optimization that is computed by use of a Bayesian network.
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Signs of maturity in drilling systems automation are evident in the success stories filtering out of technical conferences and in the attraction of top university talent to an annual, international, drilling-systems-automation contest.
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Today’s advancements in unconventional technology are worth marveling over, but there is still plenty of room for growth.
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Drilling customers would like to be able to buy the hardware they need from the vendor of their choice and plug it into an automated system, but the companies creating the control systems say they can not afford to do that.
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This paper discusses the technical challenges related to implementing a rigsite, real-time drilling advisory system and current solutions to these challenges.
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An operator partnered with the drilling-automation research group at The University of Texas at Austin to develop a work flow for big-data analysis and visualization. The objectives were to maximize the value derived from data, establish an analysis toolkit, and train students on data analytics.
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Money is the root all of startups, but getting it and making more of it depends on dealing with demanding people.
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This paper describes a collaborative effort between an operator, a drilling contractor, and a service company to introduce specific aspects of automated technology to a major drilling operation.
