Why Collaboration is the Most Important Piece of Your Well Plan
Tuesday July 12, 2016
Well planning is one of the most critical elements for a successful drilling operation, and one of the most demanding as well. It involves multiple actors and decision makers across a diverse set of disciplines, such as Geology, Engineering, Executive Management, Legal, and more. There is not one, clean formula for planning an oilfield; rather, the set of engineering methods specified for a plan must cohere to the geology of the formation, requiring geoscience and engineering teams, in particular, to be connected at the hip. The fastest way for this to happen is the use of common software to develop one well plan simultaneously. When a well plan is allowed to come to life on a single platform, with real-time touchpoints by multiple teams, the workflow becomes the catalyst for collaboration and engagement across disciplines.
Drillinginfo is excited to announce a new workflow specifically for oilfield planners, enabling field planning exercises from a single application.
We’ve also added other new workflows and enhancements in DI Transform, our all-in-one geological, geophysical, and engineering (GG&E) platform where geoscience meets analytics. Keep reading to learn about these new features and how they work!
Pad and Field Planning Workflow
Field Planners must use multiple software packages for each step in the field planning process, and unfortunately, these applications simply don’t provide enough detailed analytics for determining optimal drilling parameters. Our new Pad and Field Planning workflow enables you to simultaneously plan an entire field of well pads with precision. The ability to assess potential pad placements using the consistent template in DI Transform serves as a baseline to reduce variability and margin of error in your final plan.
Well Interference Workflow
Drilling additional wells in productive acreage is a no-brainer, but determining where to put them is a challenge – and anticipating their impact on existing wells is even more difficult. With the new Well Interference workflow in DI Transform, you can easily predict the effect of n...