Drilling Ahead of the Bit
Establish an environment to host smart and advanced engineering models to monitor, analyze and interpret drilling data to predict key drilling parameters in real-time and proactively predict and mitigate potential drilling troubles.
- Examples of potential drilling troubles:
- Difficult trip, high/low drag
- Borehole instability problems
- Stuck pipe (mechanical, differential)
- Hole cleaning issues
- Twist off
- Low ROP
DUPTS Timeline
- Saudi Aramco internal initiative called ‘Drilling Ahead of the Bit’
- Aramco wished to establish this as an SPE initiative
- The ‘Drilling Ahead’ name was rejected by the SPE Board
- Initial name proposed by the SPE:
- Drilling Performance Simulation and Prediction Technical Section (DPSP)
- This was approved by the SPE on 24 June 2014.
- DPSP was changed to the Drilling Uncertainty Prediction Technical Section on 3 April 2015,
DUPTS 2017 Update
- List of events with a DUPTS Presentation
- SPE Young Professionals , Villarhermosa, Mexico, 25 Nov 2016
- SPE Mumbai Section, Mumbai, India, 28 July 2016
- SPE Mexico, CMP in Monterrey, Mexico, 9 June 2016
- Special Events for DUPTS
- DUPTS Special Session at ATCE, Dubai, 26 Sept 2016
- Drilling Ahead of the Bit Workshop, Saudi Arabia, 20 April 2015
- Other Events where the DUPTS was promoted :
- SPE - Drilling Best Practices, Dubai , 18-19 April 2016
- SPE EAGE Geosteering and Well Placement Workshop, Dubai, 8-10 Feb 2016
- SPE Oil & Gas India Conference and Exhibition , Mumbai, 24–26 November 2015
- SPE - Intelligent Oil & Gas Abu Dhabi 15-16 September 2015
- SPE – Drilling Window Prediction and Real-Time Management – Getting it right the first time, Kuala Lumpur, 17-20 May 2015
- SPE - Mumbai Technical Meeting, Mumbai, 22 Aug 2014
- Future Events:
- Joint Special Session with DSATS Scheduled at ATCE San Antonio. Saudi Aramco is sponsoring a 1- day DUPTS workshop ahead of ATS&E 2017
- Summer workshop in Houston 2017
Webinars
- Drilling Real-time Prediction Environment In Saudi Aramco, by Salem Gharbi, on 26 July 2016
- Assessing and Improving Data Quality for more Effective Data Analytics, by David Johnson, on 14 Sept 2016
- Automation: Kick Detection Solutions Example, by Dr. Abdullah Yami, on 30 Nov 2016
- Drilling Optimization, Risk and Uncertainty Reduction, and Future Workforce Education Using Big Data Analysis, by Dr. Eric van Oort, on 22 Feb 2017
- Your Data…Streamlined. Faster. Easier. Trusted... And With Less Turbulence, by Ross Philo and Jay Hollingsworth, Energistics, 11 April 2017
- May: Robello Samuel, title and date to be confirmed
- June: Rolv Rommervelt, title and date to be confirmed
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Drilling Uncertainty Prediction Technical Section (DUPTS)
Jon Curtis