Proactive anticollision alert system reduces risk and improves safety

Overview

The LOGIX® autonomous drilling platform collision alert 3D service significantly impacts the drilling industryby enhancing safety, reducing costs, and minimizing collision risks. In production wells, collisions can lead to sudden hydrocarbon influxes, well control issues, and potential health, safety, and environmental incidents. The proactive anticollision alert system, customizable 3D wellbore displays, and automatic notifications empower operators to identify and address potential collision risks, which can help reduce potential HSE disasters and help ensure the safety of personnel, equipment, and the environment.

Challenges

Established drilling assets require meticulous attention to anticollision processes and planning to help prevent HSE disasters. During real-time operations, this requires the well planner and directional driller to aggregate data from multiple sources to determine a safe drilling interval to avoid well collision. The traditional practice of plotting traveling cylinder diagrams on paper at the rig can introduce human error and consume valuable man-hours.

Solution

To address these challenges, the LOGIX platform's collision alert 3D fully automated service provides a proactive anticollision alert system and an informative web-based 3D display accessible remotely from any location with an internet connection. This service replaces the rig site paper plot method with a real-time traveling cylinder plot display that indicates current and projected survey points. Additionally, it includes a manipulatable 3D plot of planned and offset wellbores to visualize trajectories and boundaries. The real-time display informs key stakeholders about critical well placement scenarios.

Results

This anti-collision alert system allowed an operator in the North Sea to identify an erroneous well plan on an offset well. Unexpected automatic notifications prompted further analysis of the well in question, and it was observed that incorrect Instrument Performance Models (IPMs) were applied to the well plan. The LOGIX platform collision alert 3D service identified the human-error component, allowed remediation of the issue with minimal downtime, and helped improve the safety of personnel, equipment, and the environment.