OUR PROACTIVE APPROACH

The Weather service issues tornado “watches”, alerts for conditions of atmospheric pressure, wind currents, humidity, and temperature variations that could lead to tornadoes.
A tornado warning, or an “alarm” is only issued when an actual tornado is identified and the storm is underway – a tornado has already occurred. Reactive.

ALT® Methodology – Avoidable Lost Time®

Our Approach: Saving Money, Ensuring Safety and Reliability

The goal of Drillsage is to reduce lost time, commonly as high as 25-50% of total well drilling time. The system utilizes forward looking “Watches” based on the force balances of deterministic physics of the wellbore. That is, the equal and opposite forces of the earth’s subsurface environment versus the forces necessary to balance and maintain a stable wellbore.

This RTAS “Watch” system is comparable to the Weather system in many aspects in that these forces are continuously monitored, in real time, to determine physical behaviors conducive to the potential evolution of hazards such as stuck pipe, cuttings loading (wellbore cleaning), loss of barrier and material balance, kicks and other rotating and flat-time hazards.

ALT Methodology Example (click to enlarge):

DIGITAL DRILLING FORENSICS

Anytime problems can be visualized, analyzed and improved, money will be saved.
USING HISTORICAL DIGITAL WITSML DATA TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE, RELIABILITY AND SAFETY

  • WITSML digital data has a life past drilling
    • Using digital WITSML data to improve performance, reliability and safety: First time ever
  • Digital Drilling Forensics (DDF) can import and analyze any past or present WITSML data stream.
  • DDF’s unique fast forward mode enables viewing a well as if in real time with notifications  of watches and alarms leading to hazards as they evolved.
  • DDF will assist in identifying gaps and improvements:
    • In well design and planning future operations and drilling campaigns
    • Drilling practices
    • Root cause analysis and learning from drilling practices
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