Leveraging CLD Potentials: Optimizing Economics Through Dynamic Well Control
Authors
Robert Ziegler (Weatherford International) | Evelyn Baldwin (Maersk Training Inc.)
Publisher
SPE - Society of Petroleum Engineers
Publication Date
March 28, 2017
Source
IADC/SPE Managed Pressure Drilling & Underbalanced Operations Conference & Exhibition, 28-29 March, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Paper ID
SPE-185283-MS
Abstract
When the oil price is down, the gloves come off! Maximizing the full potential of closed-loop drilling (CLD) techniques to achieve dynamic well control and effectively slash costs is one often overlooked solution: Leveraging on the experience of numerous operations, this paper will showcase the operational impact of CLD to demonstrate why CLD technologies are one of the most underutilized performance drilling tools available to the market, yielding operational process safety improvements and cost-savings unattainable with conventional methods.