Interoperability: An Enabler for Drilling Automation and a Driver for Innovation

Sadlier, Andreas; Laing, Moray L.

doi:10.2118/140114-ms

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“…Reaching these goals have recently become more difficult due to increased challenge and risk of recovering today's harder-to-reach reserves (Sadlier and Laing, 2011). Due to these obstacles, a need to automate drilling systems has emerged in order to improve rate of penetration (ROP) and repeatability of drilling process, as well as to mitigate risks associated with health, safety, and environment (HS&E).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Hence, automated control of drilling process can only be achieved with seamless communication and interoperability of various portions of the complete drilling package (Sadlier and Laing, 2011). These features have to be supported by reliable decision-making systems to integrate real-time data with optimal control actions (Rodriguez et al, 2013).…”

Section: Assisted Manual Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Hydraulic vs. Electric: A Review of Actuation Systems in Offshore Drilling Equipment

Pawlus¹,

Choux²,

Hansen³

2016

MIC

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This article presents a survey on actuation systems encountered in offshore drilling applications. Specifically, it focuses on giving a comparison of hydraulic and electric drivetrains along with detailed explanations of their advantages and drawbacks. A significant number of industrial case studies is examined in addition to the collection of academic publications, in order to accurately describe the current market situation. Some key directions of research and development required to satisfy increasing demands on powertrains operating offshore are identified. The impact of the literature and application surveys is further strengthened by benchmarking two designs of a full-scale pipe handling machine. Apart from other benefits, the electrically actuated machine reduces the total power consumption by 70 % compared to its hydraulically driven counterpart. It is concluded that electric actuation systems, among other advantages, in general offer higher efficiency and flexibility, however, in some specific applications (such as energy accumulation or translational motion control) hydraulic powertrains are favorable.

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Section: Assisted Manual Controlmentioning

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Section: Assisted Manual Controlmentioning

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Hydraulic vs. Electric: A Review of Actuation Systems in Offshore Drilling Equipment

Pawlus¹,

Choux²,

Hansen³

2016

MIC

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“…By the end of 2013, a prototype standard information model of the rig control system will be available to expose real-time data, recommended set points, current set point values, and equipment readiness for external control. To address automated contextual data sharing, which is required to support most automation algorithms as highlighted by Sadlier, et al (2011), it is necessary to pick an existing standard to represent static and historical data, as well as a method of storing and querying data. The following standards or organizations are all candidates for contextual data modeling.…”

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“…Shields (2011) points out in a review of protocols used in drilling applications that automation requires cooperation and collaboration between drilling contractors, service companies and operator personnel and systems, and work is needed on refining standards for oilfield use to ensure guaranteed interoperability (leading to higher levels of automation). Sadlier et al (2011) further asserted that components should share complete data. Effective decision support capabilities and automatic control of drilling process can only occur with seamless communication based on standards that provide interoperability: the ability of two or more systems (computer, communications devices, databases, networks or other information technologies) to interact with one another and exchange data according to a prescribed method to achieve predictable results.…”

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Drilling Systems Automation: Current State, Initiatives and Potential Impact

Macpherson

Wardt²,

Florence

et al. 2013

SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

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Drilling automation is the control of the drilling process by automatic means, ultimately reducing human intervention to a minimum. The concept of automating the drilling process has generated considerable interest, yet there is a lack of agreement on exactly what it is, what it entails, and how to implement it. As with industrial automation in the 1990s, the adoption of open standards enabling automation will have a significant impact on the underlying business model. In the oilfield drilling industry, the business model describes the relationship between operator, drilling contractor, service company, and equipment supplier.The goal of drilling systems automation is to increase productivity and quality, improve personnel safety, and effectively manage risk. Principal drivers of drilling automation include well complexity, data overload, efficiency, repetitive well manufacturing, access to limited expert resources, knowledge transfer due to the exodus of skilled employees, and health, safety and environmental concerns. With so many drivers, and their potential economic benefits, it is understandable that there are many automation related initiatives within the industry.Drilling through geopressured, possibly erratic lithologies, to a remote and possibly poorly defined target in a safe manner is not a simple task to automate. It is challenging. Drilling automation focuses on the drilling system and drilling operations, which entail combining various sub-systems, including the downhole BHA and its measurement and active components, the drillstring, fluid, and drilling rig and its sub-assemblies. Operations include conventional overbalanced, managed pressure, and underbalanced drilling operations, and their various procedures, such as tripping and making connections. This paper examines and defines drilling systems automation, its drivers, enablers and barriers, and its current state and goals. In particular, the paper looks at the vision of drilling systems automation, and the role played by open collaborative initiatives among all segments of the drilling industry. Although commitment to automation by the drilling industry appears by many to lag other major industries, there are segments of the drilling industry that have reached a high level of automation on a commercial basis. There is also significant collaboration among interested parties in creating a standardized, open environment for data flow to foster the development of systems automation.

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“…In addition to the physical connections and the logical protocols that allow for data exchange, data portability is required so the proper context is available between systems, making data sets meaningful from one system to another (Sadlier and Laing 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

Data Aggregation and Drilling Automation: Connecting the Interoperability Bridge between Acquisition, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Control

Sadlier

Laing

Shields

2012

IADC/SPE Drilling Conference and Exhibition

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Although the oil and gas industry continues to progress with drilling automation, technical challenges remain and must be addressed before this vision can become a reality. One of these challenges is the data aggregation between operators, service companies, drilling contractors and equipment manufacturers. Automation requires that the system not only control sub processes, it must also enable more complex intelligent systems to plan and react to real-time evaluation criteria and respond to predictive intelligence in real time. Data from control systems such as top drives, and evaluation systems such as downhole logging while drilling (LWD) sensors, must be aggregated in a meaningful way so it is portable, contextual, and actionable. Consider controlling the rate of penetration (ROP) based on predictive analytics assessed from formation evaluation (FE) data provided by an LWD sensor. To achieve this, intelligent control and evaluation systems must monitor and exchange information and events within a single, shared perspective.In this paper, we review several technologies currently in use throughout the drilling industry-WITS, WITSML, OPC and PROFIBUS-and present case studies describing the current roles these technologies play and the problems they solve. The authors then analyze the limitations between these interoperable systems and associated barriers in achieving the drilling automation vision. This paper recommends defined goals for the data aggregator and identifies existing challenges surrounding its deployment in current drilling automation environments. The authors also provide recommendations for how the industry should proceed with the implementation of data aggregation for automation. These recommendations ensure drilling automation becomes more than simple process mechanization, but advances towards intelligent systems that transform plans into reality and optimize performance and cost.

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Interoperability: An Enabler for Drilling Automation and a Driver for Innovation

Cited by 10 publications

References 6 publications

Hydraulic vs. Electric: A Review of Actuation Systems in Offshore Drilling Equipment

Hydraulic vs. Electric: A Review of Actuation Systems in Offshore Drilling Equipment

Drilling Systems Automation: Current State, Initiatives and Potential Impact

Data Aggregation and Drilling Automation: Connecting the Interoperability Bridge between Acquisition, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Control

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