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Automated drilling operational plan

Explore how our automated drilling operational plan can streamline your well construction tasks, improve decision-making, and ensure consistency across your drilling operations.

Challenge

Drilling a well is a complex and intricate process where many incidents can occur. It's challenging for drillers to interpret sparse measurements and responses from the downhole environment and make the best decisions.

Invention

We present an automated drilling operational plan that delivers an execution policy directly usable by automated and autonomous systems to perform well construction tasks. 

This system is designed to cope with uncertainties and potential incidents, ensuring smoother operations.

Value

Our improved execution policy can be seamlessly integrated with automated and autonomous systems, leading to better decision-making during drilling operations. This approach promotes more consistent decisions across different drilling teams and locations, thus enhancing overall efficiency and reliability.

Status

This innovative system is currently under development.

Next steps

We plan to conduct our first demonstration in Q4 2025.

Possible commercialization options

  • Overall methodology and results have been published, enabling different players to develop similar solutions.
  • Agreements with one or more players could be made to industrialize and commercialize this innovative solution.