Drilling automation
Totally automated drilling today looks like a robot doing all the heavy lifting on a drilling floor. By 2025, there may no longer be anything surprising about it.
A supervised machine-learning algorithm is developed to classify drilling parameters that increase rate of penetration and bit endurance for use in unconventional fields in Australia.
The failure of the Raptor rig to drill its first-ever well offers a short history of the challenges that came with creating the first automated drilling rig.
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The two companies have agreed to team up so their most-valued drilling-automation programs can be used together easily. The relationship has shined a bright light on drilling automation. -
As the saying goes, the future is now. This is certainly the case offshore Norway, which represents one of the industry’s most influential test beds for impactful innovation.
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Technology is advancing, and applications are growing, but scaling faces technological and human challenges.
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When humankind returns to the Moon to establish colonies it will be bringing with it technologies born in the oil and mining industries. The European Space Agency and Russia’s Roscosmos will be central to that effort as they prepare to land a robotic drilling system to extract oxygen and water from frozen lunar soil.
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The authors describe challenges that must be overcome to reach the goal of drilling systems automation.
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This paper details the introduction of a drilling automation system to deliver superior well-construction performance in a major gas field.
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MPD was used to successfully drill through a pore pressure ramp and address a well-control event in conjunction with conventional methods.
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Drilling automation and innovation continue as dominant trends despite market downturns and unprecedented challenges in the past year. In many ways, the drive toward new efficiencies and step changes in well-construction performance has taken on an even greater sense of urgency.
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The complete paper presents a solution that integrates a physics-based torque-and-drag (T&D) stiff/soft string model with a real-time drilling analytics system using a custom-built extract, transform, and load translator and digital-transformation applications to automate the T&D modeling work flow.
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The service companies plan to co-market an emerging well control system that can integrate with established managed-pressure-drilling components to enhance well construction safety and efficiency.
