NOV’s Dynamic Drilling Solutions (DDS) business unit offers advanced optimization and automation services to enhance drilling operations and increase cost-effectiveness throughout your drilling campaign. Our eVolve™ Optimization Service equips your existing rigs, rig crews, and engineers with an advanced toolkit that delivers performance, allows improved real-time decision making, and provides analytics capability.
eVolve Optimization Tiered Solutions
INFORM provides enhanced monitoring and insight into your drilling operations through the power of surface data analytics.
ADVISE introduces full optimization analysis supplemented by downhole data.
CONTROL enables drilling automation with surface data-driven control applications, such as the SoftSpeedTM II stick-slip prevention service, to improve the execution phase of your drilling operations and further drive performance.
AUTOMATE provides enhanced drilling automation, further adding value through the introduction of our patented, closed-loop control.
INFORM offers the following:
24/7 remote rig site and office support
Drilling parameter roadmaps by formation and depth
Real-time data analysis and interpretation support
Advanced data analytics of rigsite acquired measurements
Interactive reports for superior customization
State-of-the-art topdrive data acquisition system
Data quality monitoring
Pre- and post-well analysis of drilling KPIs and metrics with lessons learned, best practice, and knowledge management.
Our RTTC team works with you to create customized solutions that support your operations. Our drilling optimization specialists, innovative software, and data analytics help you achieve consistent and superior performance from your rigs with reduced spud-to-spud times, additional insight into drilling operations, and a focus on safety.
Features/Benefits
Advanced data analytics and interactive reporting
-Improves understanding of drilling operations
-Empowers operations teams with an analysis toolkit
Data quality monitoring
-Increases accuracy of drilling measurements
-Provides safety oversight
Innovative data acquisition systems
-Improves resolution of drilling data
-Provides more direct measurements
Drilling roadmaps
-Refines range of effective parameters
-Improves confidence in drillstring dynamics
24/7 real-time rig site and office support
-Ensures your team is connected to the data
Analysis of real-time and historical data
-Allows KPI assessment and monitoring
-Captures performance trends
2. ADVISE is an integrated drilling approach with an optimization foundation that enhances operations analyses by incorporating downhole data. ADVISE combines strong technical processes, robust analysis software, specialized downhole tools, and a dedicated project team whose objective is to reduce your overall drilling costs.
ADVISE provides a customizable drilling service suited to any operation. Our team of experienced NOV specialists will:
Review and analyze existing well data
Combine surface data with measurements obtained by our suite of BlackBox™ downhole dynamics acquisition tools
Identify and address potential performance limiters
Analyze rock properties and formation characteristics
Highlight potential drilling risks and propose solutions to mitigate dysfunction
Identify drilling parameters that lead to destructive vibration modes
Evaluate torque and drag, MSE, buckling, and other dynamic behavior
Provide formation and depth-based parameter roadmaps
Recommend BHA design and components
On-site supervision as well as access to real-time remote monitoring through our Real-Time Technology Center(RTTC) will ensure optimum performance. Post-run data analysis and comparison to pre-established benchmarks create and maintain a culture of continuous improvement that will reduce well delivery costs.
Features/Benefits
Downhole data from BHA and drillstring locations
-Enables analysis of dynamic behavior of drilling activities
-Enables BHA design and component selection recommendations
Sophisticated software and planning tools
-Identifies harmful vibration modes
-Analyzes rock properties and formation characteristics
Driller’s roadmap based on depth and formations
-Follows recommended parameters at every depth
-Empowers team with historically successful parameter combinations
Customized offering and optimization strategy
-Ensures solution is unique to your specific challenges
3. CONTROL offers innovative, surface-based hardware and software packages(软件包) that improve the accuracy and quality of drilling data, reduce drilling dysfunction, and streamline drilling-program implementation. These applications seamlessly integrate with NOV’s state-of-the-art control systems to improve your operation. Products in development will communicate downhole data via mud-pulse(脉冲) and electromagnetic signal to enhance the software and controls capabilities and further improve operational efficiency.
CONTROL offers the following:
Automated stick-slip and torsional vibration prevention and mitigation
Automatic drilling parameter and mechanical specific energy (MSE) optimization
Premium data acquisition system
Our Real-Time Technology Center (RTTC) ensures optimum performance of these systems through remote monitoring and support for your rigsite and office teams.
These advanced controls and software deliver proven performance while reducing the likelihood of tool and equipment damage, reaching a new level of drilling performance and technology.
Features/Benefits
Stick-slip and torsional vibration prevention and mitigation
-Reduces damage to BHA components and drillstring fatigue
-Improves borehole quality
-Increases available energy for drilling, which improves performance
Automatic drilling parameter and MSE optimization
-Seeks best combination of weight-on-bit (WOB) and RPM parameters
-Reduces system MSE
Premium data acquisition system
-Improves drilling data quality with superior sensors and direct measurements
4. AUTOMATE uses the world’s first application of closed-loop, downhole data to drive NOV’s state-of-the-art rig control systems. Sensors in the drilling environment enable best-in-class performance with a control system finely tuned for any operation. This new technology uses innovative software to improve drilling performance and operational efficiencies in addition to reducing manual interpretation of drilling data.
AUTOMATE includes six main components*:
High-frequency, high-speed downhole data acquisition tools
IntelliServ™ high-speed telemetry network and service
NOV control system add-on
Drilling applications and software
Graphical user interfaces and reporting
NOV’s Dynamic Drilling Solutions (DDS) Services personnel support
In addition to these components, real-time remote monitoring from the Real-Time Technology Center (RTTC) and on-site supervision ensure optimum performance. Enhanced datasets reduce and refine assumptions about the drilling environment, advancing the industry’s wellbore technology. Real-time data and action-oriented software increase safety, improve wellbore condition, and reduce well delivery costs.
Features/Benefits
Closed-loop control using data from BHA and drillstring locations
-Improves safety and wellbore condition-monitoring
-Increases ROP and reduces NPT
Customized drilling applications and software
-Optimizes drilling efficiency
-Streamlines drilling processes
On-site operations support and offsite project monitoring at our 24/7 support center
-Provides additional operations oversight and reduces risks
-Delivers drilling optimization recommendations
-Facilitates hands-on rig site training
High-speed telemetry network
-Reduces communication time between surface systems and downhole tools