HIGH-SPEED TELEMETRY SERVICE ALLOWS FOR ENHANCED RESERVOIR UNDERSTANDING
Sperry Drilling, a Halliburton business, has released its JetPulse high-speed telemetry service, which provides consistent, high-data rate transmission of drilling and formation evaluation measurements. This new telemetry system helps operators make faster decisions to optimize well placement and improve well control while increasing drilling efficiency. The service transmits downhole data consistently over wide depth ranges and complex well trajectories with physical data rates up to 18 bits/sec. It provides the highest lost circulation material (LCM) tolerance, of any high-speed telemetry system, helping the operator pump the required LCM concentration to cure mud losses without changing or plugging the BHA. The system also reduces flat time on the drilling curve, maximizes ROP and optimizes reservoir contact by combining new telemetry technology with measurement and LWD services. The service also includes 3D downhole data management, which compresses and configures multiple data sets in one package, giving effective data rates of more than 140 bits/sec. Image: Halliburton.
DIGITAL ROCK, FLUID ANALYSIS IMPROVES RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION
Schlumberger has inaugurated a newly expanded 123,000-ft2 reservoir rock and fluid analysis laboratory, called the Houston Reservoir Laboratory, located in Houston, Texas. The lab enables petrotechnical experts to better leverage physical and digital rock and fluid analysis for comprehensive reservoir characterization. The facility features a portfolio of the company’s reservoir characterization technologies, which span downhole rock and fluid data, and sample acquisition, through wellsite and lab analysis. Integration of data, and insight from field and lab measurements in the DELFI cognitive E&P environment, enhances collaboration across exploration and production teams, to realize the full potential of all available data and science.
CALIBRATION IMPROVED IN NEW BORESIGHT TOOL
Teledyne CARIS has released its HIPS and SIPS 10.4. This version introduces the first commercial release of CIDCO’s Automatic Boresight Calibration tool, providing a systematic approach to calibration as an alternative to the traditional, manual patch test. Borrowing adjustment techniques from the Lidar industry, the new Multi-beam-IMU Automatic Calibration (MIBAC) algorithm developed by CIDCO is now available in HIPS. The calibration simplifies both survey planning and post-processing for calibration requirements, requiring fewer survey lines in the field and providing a repeatable, robust calculation of the boresight angles between the IMU and sonar in post-processing. The algorithm also provides immediate feedback to the processor on the quality and confidence of the calculation.
Halliburton introduces new family of shaped cutter drill bits
Halliburton has announced the release of Geometrix 4D Shaped Cutters, a line of four distinct geometric profiles to help improve cutting efficiency and increase control to reduce drilling costs. Halliburton may now offer the largest portfolio of shaped cutters in the oil and gas industry.
The new bit’s cutters expand the capabilities of traditional polycrystalline diamond materials (PDC) by shaping the cutting structure to optimize drilling performance for specific applications. Traditional flat cutters generate heat and wear, which slows drilling progress as operators must frequently check or replace damaged bits.
The new line includes Chisel Plowed Scribe Cutter for brittle formations such as carbonates; Chopper Plowed Cylinder Cutter for increased heat dissipation in high energy drilling operations such as shale formations; Dagger Multi-Plowed Cutter with fluid channels to improve cleaning and prevent plugging around the cutter face; and Machete Optimized Tip Geometry Cutter for use in formations that require high point loading.
“The launch of Geometrix cutters demonstrates our ability to collaborate with customers and translate knowledge into solutions that can help lower drilling costs,” said Scott Regimbald, vice president of the Halliburton Drill Bits and Services business. “Each cutter is tailored for specific applications so operators now have the most complete portfolio to meet their drilling challenges.”
In a recent offshore job in Mexico where an operator was drilling a limestone-shale formation, the new bit doubled the rate of penetration over a 700-m section saving the operator three days of drilling time compared to offset wells.
TCP GUN SYSTEM DESIGNED FOR HIGH PRESSURE
Expro has launched a new, extreme, high-pressure tubing-conveyed perforating (TCP) gun system, delivering a large perforation hole area for frac and gravel pack completions. Designed for challenging deepwater environments in the Gulf of Mexico, the Extreme Pressure Series 30,000-psi TCP gun system utilizes super big-hole charge technology, providing area-open-to-flow (AOF) to support frac-and gravel-pack operations. Delivering 18 to 22 shots per ft using steel HMX charges, standard casing sizes of 7 in. through 73/4 in., in combination with the 43/4-in. OD system, will achieve 6-to-7-in. AOF. Larger casing sizes of 95/8 through 103/4 in., utilizing the 65/8-in. OD system, will deliver 13-to-15-in. AOF. The system was developed with high performance gun system provider, GEODynamics.
NEW TOOL LAUNCHED FOR ENHANCED OFFSHORE INSPECTION
Aberdeen-based AISUS has launched an improved internal gravity-deployed ultrasonic scanning tool, SIRIUS-X, for completing ultrasonic corrosion mapping within offshore caissons, risers and conductors. It was developed to maximize data accuracy and minimize the duration of inspections to meet the increasing demands of the offshore industry. Featuring a high-torque rotary drive and a scanning speed of up to 5 m/hr, its small cross-sectional footprint with minimal hydro-dynamic drag also allows it to perform during elevated sea states. It is controlled from the topside, allowing inspection data to be captured above, within and below a variety of obstacles and diameter variations commonly encountered within caissons, without removing the tool. It can be deployed to depths of up to 200 m and adjusted for a range of caisson sizes, from 14 to 60 in., by pressing a button. Image: AISUS.
AI PROVIDES ACCURATE LWD IN DEEP WATER
Quantico Energy’s QDrill is an artificial intelligence solution to log-challenging zones, due to drilling hazards, slim-hole or highly deviated sections with the drilling data available on every well. The software utilizes neural network models trained with a vast database of wells that span a wide variety of lithologies, and possess both drilling and logging data. Tests conducted by major oil companies have demonstrated that the system is comparable to conventional open-hole logging tools in terms of accuracy and reliability.
VARIABLE SPEED DRIVE ENHANCES ARTIFICIAL LIFT
Dover Artificial Lift has released the new Smarten Variable Speed Drive (VSD) for artificial lift. Safety is enhanced in a patent-pending design by separating the exposed power components from low-voltage and touch-safe components while keeping the VSD accessible for troubleshooting. Performance of the VSD is orchestrated from the new Integrated Asset Manager (IAM) interface. Utilizing a 10-in. touch screen and HTML 5.0, the IAM allows operators to have a full view of the ESP’s performance, including pump curves and advanced gas algorithms at the VSD, wirelessly at the wellsite, or securely from their desktop. Value from the VSD can be realized fully by changing the system into a Spirit Genesis pump-off controller, for a true “life of well” controller. Image: Dover Artificial Lift.
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