Success Story of Utilizing Real Time Drilling Data to Remotely Support Drilling Operations and Identifying the Areas of Drilling Performance Improvement

Abstract

Upstream Oil & Gas industry has been continuously focusing on reducing the operating cost, while targeting higher operational efficiencies. To that extent we are seeing a continuous move towards remote operations with efficient utilization of available data to identify operational issues and provide benchmarks for improving drilling performance. The industry is putting significant efforts into using instrumentation and software to optimize operations in all domains for exploration and production (E&P) to move towards the Digital Oil field of the future. With a similar vision, ADNOC Onshore have implemented Real Time Data Management project in partnership with Schlumberger for enabling remote real-time drilling operations and performance reporting across its entire active rig fleet. The objective is to provide a single platform to users for: Technological solution enabling real-time data transmission from all rigs to ADNOC Onshore Headquarters and enabling real-time visualizations of the drilling data.Engineering solution to transform real-time data into information to easily identify the areas of operational improvement allowing to implement specific measures to reduce ILT and NPT which can help in reducing costs and risk. This project has also provided an automated Drill Well on Paper (DWOP) process where high frequency real-time data is utilized along with low frequency Daily Drilling report data to provide better insights for well planning and generate ideas for improving performance and reducing costs.