Case History: Automated Drilling Performance Measurement of Crews and Drilling Equipment

K Andersen, PA Sjøwall, E Maidla, B King… - SPE/IADC Drilling …, 2009 - onepetro.org
This paper describes the development and implementation of a unique new capability to
automatically measure the performance of drilling crews, drilling equipment and downtime …

Towards managing uncertain geo-information for drilling disasters using event tracking sensitivity analysis

S Tavakoli, S Poslad, R Fruhwirth, M Winter, H Zeiner - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
In sub-surface drilling rigs, one key critical crisis is unwanted influx into the borehole as a
result of increasing the influx rate while drilling deeper into a high-pressure gas formation …

Automated real-time hookload and torque monitoring

R Kucs, HF Spoerker, G Thonhauser… - SPE/IADC Drilling …, 2008 - onepetro.org
Today important parameters to enable a reduction of lost and hidden lost time during drilling,
like hook loads for pulling and slacking off the drill string, and torque for drill string rotation …

A robust anomaly detection methodology using predicted hookload and neutral point for oil well drilling

V Ramba, S Selvaraju, S Subbiah… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2020 - Elsevier
The prediction of downhole complications during drilling process is one of the essential
tasks to reduce oil well drilling costs. It will be achieved by implementing an optimized …

The effect of invisible lost time on drilling performance of geothermal wells

FSH Pangaribuan, S Kasmungin… - Journal of Earth …, 2020 - e-journal.trisakti.ac.id
Drilling activity has been focused in time on each activity to reach target depth (TD)
immediately and efficient in cost. The priority also aimed to Geothermal drilling by doing …

Recommendation of counteractions for prevention of critical events in sub-surface drilling environments

M Winter, F Riedel, F Lee, RK Fruhwirth… - International Journal of …, 2013 - igi-global.com
Abstract Sub-Surface Drilling is the process of making boreholes into the Earth, which can
reach depths of many kilometers. One of the major purposes of such boreholes is the …

Real-time well condition monitoring in extended reach wells

R Kucs, HF Spoerker, G Thonhauser - 2008 - osti.gov
Ever rising daily operating cost for offshore operations make the risk of running into drilling
problems due to torque and drag developments in extended reach applications a growing …