Optimization of Deepwater Drilling with Real-Time Operations

Hamed, Walid; Waheed, Syed Arshad; Oraby, Moustafa; Bassem, Ahmed; Gamal, Medhat; Nafie, Sherif

doi:10.2118/108291-ms

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“…A case history showing the use of the hub/satellite architecture to support Shell-Egypt's deepwater drilling operations in the northeast Mediterranean was published by Hamed et al (2007). The first phase of drilling in this area had been impacted by boreholestability problems, so for the subsequent phase, a round-the-clock real-time support center was established in Cairo, connected back to the RTOC hub in New Orleans for access to additional expertise and services in well planning and analysis.…”

Section: Gulf Of Mexico Initiativesmentioning

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Real-Time Drilling Operations Centers: A History of Functionality and Organizational Purpose—The Second Generation

Booth¹

2011

SPE Drilling &Amp; Completion

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Two phases in the evolution of drilling operations centers are identified on the basis of published information. The first was examined in detail in an earlier paper (Booth 2009). The second is examined here by way of a review of several operators' strategies over time and in different areas of operation. The first generation of centers was short-lived, failing to survive the reductions in oil price and drilling activities of the late 1980s. The second generation, beginning in the early 2000s, benefited from rapid evolution of information technology in the intervening years and is part of a broader trend toward integrated operations and collaborative work processes. Common trends are identified from the case histories presented. These include a discussion of foundational capability, data and architecture standards, higher-level work processes, and organizational-change management.

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Section: Gulf Of Mexico Initiativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Real-Time Drilling Operations Centers: A History of Functionality and Organizational Purpose—The Second Generation

Booth¹

2011

SPE Drilling &Amp; Completion

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Real-Time Drilling Operations Centers: A History of Functionality and Organizational Purpose—The Second Generation

Booth¹

2010

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Two phases in the evolution of drilling operations centers are identified based upon published information. The first was examined in detail in an earlier paper. The second is examined here by way of a review of several operators' strategies over time and in different areas of operation. The first generation of centers was short lived, failing to survive the reductions in oil price and drilling activities of the late 80s. The second generation had the benefit of significant evolution of information technology in the intervening years and is part of a broader trend toward integrated operations and collaborative work processes. Common trends are identified from the case histories presented. These include a discussion of foundational capability, data and architecture standards, higher level work processes and organizational change management.

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How to Accelerate Drilling Learning Curves

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Schneider

2011

SPE/IADC Drilling Conference and Exhibition

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Given the current economic climate and continued volatility in oil and natural gas prices, extracting maximum benefit from drilling performance optimization is key to the economical exploitation of many resource plays around the world. Shell Upstream Americas is employing a highly effective performance improvement team to help drive performance optimization and the delivery of top quartile performance on its wells in North America and beyond. Central to this group is a dedicated team of optimization engineers that deliver drilling efficiency optimization techniques, the innovative use of real-time optimization centers, and value-adding root-cause failure investigations to various land and offshore well delivery teams in a fit-for-purpose way. Using the optimization approaches taken, it has been possible to help accelerate well delivery times and associated learning curves by as much as a factor of three, often in a minimum amount of time. A main conclusion is therefore that this approach is a highly effective way to bring performance optimization focus to field operations. This paper highlights the modus operandi of these optimization engineers, the techniques and tools they employ, and the remarkable results achieved. The workflow and organizational structure was applied to well delivery optimization with projects ranging from shale gas drilling in the Continental US and Canada as well as hard rock drilling in the Middle East. IntroductionA perception may exist in the oil and gas industry, and among its many stakeholders, that large multi-national oil and gas companies struggle to compete with smaller national or independent companies due to their size and associated overhead, bureaucracy, adherence to global standards, etc. (Sneider 1993, Morel 2002. Direct costs for multi-national companies may indeed in some cases be higher due to differences in well construction standards and the associated assurance risks that are deemed acceptable, and a higher need for on-site supervision particularly in the area of occupational safety. A high-level generalization about "slow and expensive" multi-nationals, however, often fails to recognize some key strengths that larger multi-national companies can bring to the table to make them more competitive. These include the ability to develop (or, with partners, co-develop) important performance improvement technologies and having the in-house resources to mature those technologies and quickly capitalize on them in the field. Any higher upfront costs may then be offset by superior well delivery performance, and in particular by improvements in well delivery time. This theme is explored in the present paper, where we show how technologies for drilling efficiency were successfully deployed in the onshore gas plays of the United States and Canada, thereby accelerating learning curves and making well delivery operations in these areas highly competitive. Moreover, the learnings from these operations were quickly carried over to other areas, most notably hard rock drilling operations ...

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Optimization of Deepwater Drilling with Real-Time Operations

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Real-Time Drilling Operations Centers: A History of Functionality and Organizational Purpose—The Second Generation

Real-Time Drilling Operations Centers: A History of Functionality and Organizational Purpose—The Second Generation

Real-Time Drilling Operations Centers: A History of Functionality and Organizational Purpose—The Second Generation

How to Accelerate Drilling Learning Curves

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