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Design of anDesign
Automated
Drilling-Prediction System
Drilling-Prediction System
RTOC monitoring engineers is very valu- an increasing volume of more-complex Traditionally, alerts have been prepared
able but fragile, because it requires the data. This has enabled discovery of pre- by monitoring engineers at RTOCs. HowFor a limited time, the complete paper is free to SPE members at www.spe.org/jpt.
continued participation of team mem- viously undetected drilling patterns ever, most of them were triggered by enCopyright 2013, Society of Petroleum Engineers. Reprinted from the Journal of Petroleum Technology with permission.
bers. To ensure that nothing is over- from correlation wells and known po- gineers data visualization or alarms disJPT SEPTEMBER 2013
looked, that knowledge should be gath- tential events from ongoing drilling played by the real-time systems. This is
ered and used by an intelligent system. programs, making real-time data expo- inefficient, because it demands significant time from monitoring engineers to
validate the accuracy of the alarm before
This article, written by JPT Technology Editor Chris Carpenter, contains highlights
an alert is posted.
of paper SPE 163709, Design of an Automated Drilling-Prediction System
Therefore, alarms in the computerStrengthening-While-Drilling Decision Making, by Samuel R. Prez Bardasz, driven system were automated under the
SPE, Edwin David Hernndez Alejadre, and Armando Almeida Len, Petrolink, premise that all should be as accurate
prepared for the 2013 SPE Digital Energy Conference and Exhibition, The Woodlands, and important as the data make possiTexas, USA, 57 March. The paper has not been peer reviewed.
ble. Hence, algorithms were developed
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For a limited time, the complete paper is free to SPE members at www.spe.org/jpt.
Copyright 2013, Society of Petroleum Engineers. Reprinted from the Journal of Petroleum Technology with permission.
JPT SEPTEMBER 2013
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Anticipating Events
and Trouble Zones
The design of an automated drillingprediction system was started by covering drill-bit performance, fluid changes,
and varying rock formations. These three
points have data in the form of a program
as well as in real time.
Drilling performance has a direct
relation to drill-bit efficiency. Therefore,
drill-bit information is used to monitor the well, taking into account start/
end depth; casing-stage diameter; initial/final weight on bit; minimum/maxi-
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