DrillPlan New Features

DrillPlan Latest Features

Dynamic Multiphase Kick Tolerance

The DrillPlan^* coherent well construction planning solution now offers the Dynamic Multiphase Kick Tolerance workflow, which enables the user to make a more accurate assessment of the actual margins in the well if a kick needs to be circulated out.

Upper Completion Design with Automated Validation

Completion is, in most cases, the key driver for the well construction. The completion workflow leverages the general workflows in DrillPlan: task management, review/approval, automated engineering analysis, activity.

New Functionalities for Offshore Subsea Design

The DrillPlan solution is now compatible with offshore subsea well design, featuring a new set of functionalities and configurations.

Automated reporting

The automated reporting workflow enables the generation of consistent high-quality drilling programs in just a few clicks. The latest enhancements of dynamic components, reduce manual input and ensures an evergreen drilling report.

Data-driven drilling parameter optimization

Enhance your operational parameters selection by understanding offset well performance and transferring previous knowledge to your subject well.

Dynamic well template

Leverage offset constraint correlation to automate multi-well design.

Activity plan with estimated best composite time

Enhance your operational forecasting with identification of offset wells best composite time and probabilistic analysis of non-productive time.

Multi-Plan Optimization 

Enable well concept evaluation and selection by easily duplicating your master plan. Explore several proposals by building and comparing scenarios to identify the best possible well design.

Multi-Dimension Sensitivity Analysis 

Gain insight into your designs by performing multi-dimensional sensitivity analysis for hydraulics and torque and drag. Visualize the engineering results through interactive analytics displays to easily evaluate from hundreds of scenarios to optimize your operational parameters.

Automated Engineering Analysis and Validation

Maximize the efficiency of your well planning team with the automated engineering analysis and validation. Ensure the highest quality drilling program with best in class science with the DrillPlan coherent well construction planning solution.

Casing and Liner Running Analysis with Automated Validation

Ensure successful casing and liner running operations with engineering validation every time you make a design change in the DrillPlan coherent well construction planning solution.

Wellbarrier Illustrations

Reduce your well integrity risk with integrated Wellbarrier illustration tool workflows in the DrillPlan coherent well construction planning solution.

DrillPlan 2022 Features

Dynamic Multiphase Kick Tolerance

Kick tolerance is critical in any well design. The single-bubble approach is commonly used to calculate the kick tolerance of a section, although a multiphase evaluation may be required for more complex wells where precise validation of the well margins is necessary if a given influx volume is required.

The DrillPlan* coherent well construction planning solution now offers the Dynamic Multiphase Kick Tolerance workflow, which enables the user to make a more accurate assessment of the actual margins in the well if a kick needs to be circulated out.

The Dynamic Multiphase Kick Tolerance workflow uses the OLGA* online production management system to accurately assess the impact of kicks on a well design, in order to mitigate these events through standard operational well control procedures.

The OLGA engine is a physical, three-phase flow model that uses compositional tracking to model influx behavior during the entire well control sequence—from when the kick enters the wellbore, through shut-in and subsequent circulation of the kick from the well to re-establish control of the wellbore. This is the same system used by SLB’s Drillbench^* dynamic drilling simulation software, which has been the industry’s go-to application for a decade.

Once the simulation is completed, results are available in a graphical interface, which allows the user to assess key parameters. These include surface pit gain, choke and pump pressure, and the pressure trend at kick zone depth and in the casing shoe.

In addition, a profile plot shows the difference between the formation fracture strength along the entire open hole, and the maximum pressure seen at any point during the simulation. This also allows the user to assess the casing seat depth and evaluate if the design can be optimized by moving the shoe.

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DrillPlan 2021 Features

Upper Completion Design with Automated Validation

Completion is, in most cases, the key driver for the well construction. The completion workflow leverages the general workflows in DrillPlan: task management, review/approval, automated engineering analysis, activity. The Automated Engineering Analysis (AEA) will validate the completion string from the integrity point of view and ensure that it can be run to planned depth through the running load analysis.

With the DrillPlan coherent well construction planning solution, you have access to all your engineering tools and data in a common system with integrated cross domain workflows. This release provides the first version of the completion workflow in DrillPlan.

This version allows the user to define a single upper completion string, a completion fluid (packer fluid) and completion integrity definition (load case considerations). The completion string validation includes running analysis for hook load weight while running and maximum allowable hook load before string failure. The completion integrity definition will run load case calculations on the completion string to validate the string for mandatory load case scenarios. This allows the completion to be an integrated part of the collaborative well construction planning process.

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New Functionalities for Offshore Subsea Design

The DrillPlan solution is now compatible with offshore subsea well design, featuring a new set of functionalities and configurations.

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Automated Reporting

The DrillPlan coherent well construction planning solution enables users to customize and automate drilling reports. The smart document management feature preloads all the latest reviewed and approved engineering designs and gives your team the ability to work concurrently in a single document, saving hours of administrative work.

The automated reporting workflow enables your teams to generate consistent, high quality reports, while seamlessly co-authoring the drilling program. The customizable templates are transferable across the different projects, which include dynamic display items and text that enables the synchronization to the validated designs within the subject well. Every time the report is updated it will pull the latest information from the shared designs, resulting in the reduction of manual input and ensuring an evergreen drilling report.

The automated reporting workflow makes it easy to generate comparison tables between different versions. This enables a side-by-side visualization to highlight the difference between designs and results. This comparison facilitates the identification of the best design.

The ability to associate the report with the different plans within your project, enables you to quickly generate reports for other plans. You can now create a revision of the report at any point during the planning process to be used as reference for future comparisons and to compare different plans within your project.

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Data-driven drilling parameter optimization

The data-driven drilling parameter optimization workflow discovers captured operational and performance information from relevant wells. Simply search from your offset well database by establishing preferred filters and find the wells that are relevant for your current project. Easily visualize and understand the drilling performance of previous wells to optimize the operational parameters selection by transferring previous knowledge to your subject well.

With the DrillPlan coherent well construction planning solution, you have access to all your offset well data in a common system with integrated cross domain workflows and you can establish the operational parameters envelope for each run and instantly validate the design. The latest data-driven drilling parameter optimization workflow enables the visualization of offset well operational parameters. Comprehensive search filters, including proximity, hole size, date, trajectory, and even bit and steering tools enable you to discover the relevant wells in moments.

You now have access to all the data required for evaluating the performance of your offset wells by visualizing the different drilling parameters throughout the hole section’s depth. This allows for your team to evaluate results on the different combination of drilling parameters, including inclination, weight on bit, rotation, flow rate and rate of penetration. Multiple customizable and interactive displays are available for deeper evaluation of your offset well performance.

The capability to select different drilling parameters on the relevant depth intervals to be transferred to your subject. Is included in this update well. The selection can be customized to specific parameters, hole section, depth, or formation. Once the new parameters are applied, the automated engineering analysis will validate your new design by running simulations for hydraulics, torque and drag, and more.

The data-driven optimization workflow also includes details of the run summary, bit type, bottom hole assembly configuration, fluid details and more. The interactive displays will facilitate the analysis of several wells to efficiently perform complex offset well analysis and enhance the operational parameters selection by transferring previous knowledge to your subject well.

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DrillPlan 2020 Features

DrillPlan Feature Update: Dynamic well template

The dynamic well template workflow on the DrillPlan coherent well construction planning solution will facilitate the generation of multiple well drilling programs in minutes. You can establish a formation catalog that could be shared across all your different projects in DrillPlan; this allows you to tie-in the casing seats, operational parameters and drilling risks to the relevant formation in the catalog. By using the dynamic well templates your designs will automatically be depth adjusted and validated based on the latest formation tops depths. 

When designing multiple similar wells in the same field, the basis of design are typically very similar. The wellbore geometry, operational risks and drilling parameters are nearly a duplication of each other, with small variations mainly derived by the formation tops depths. With the recently released dynamic well design workflow, you can generate multiple well programs with a few clicks, leveraging the shared data and established templates. The corporate settings on the DrillPlan coherent well construction planning solution enables you to manage projects, define rule sets for engineering, create custom catalogs and report templates. One of the new available catalogs contains formation tops, these details are shared and available across all your different projects in DrillPlan.

The creation of a formation catalog at a field level allows you to design the wellbore geometry by selecting the relevant formation tops and tying it to the casing seats depth. This capability extends to creating an association of drilling risks and establishing operational parameters. Now your designs are linked to formation tops depths and whenever these are updated and shared, your casing, risks and parameters design will automatically update. This creates a dynamic well template to be transferable to multiple wells.

DrillPlan Feature Update: Activity plan with estimated best composite time

Leverage your offset well data to identify areas of improvement opportunities by understanding prior operational performance and identifying benchmarks with best composite time estimation. 

With the DrillPlan coherent well construction planning solution, you can visualize your offset knowledge to identify risk and previous non-productive time, so you can reduce it through engineering or mitigate it through operational recommendations. With the latest best composite time feature you can identify areas of opportunities with multi-well analysis of performance KPIs and transfer lessons learned to future projects. You can analyze your entire well construction data to define benchmarks to push towards your technical limit.

The activity plan workflow automatically generates the best sequence of operational activities from your most effective offset wells. It enables historical analysis, conduct probabilistic estimation productive and non-productive time to improve time and cost management.

The solution uses an open architecture to connect to your relevant databases and cross-domain information. Lessons learned captured from your offset wells and relevant data for replanning and implementing your management of change process are always available.

DrillPlan Feature Release: Multi-Plan Optimization

The multi-plan optimization workflow on the DrillPlan coherent well construction planning solution, guides you towards the best possible well design by facilitating the creation of multiple scenarios based on your master plan.

The time-consuming manual process of evaluating multiple well planning scenarios to identify the best well design is eliminated by the multi-plan optimization workflow in the DrillPlan Solution. Now, you can create multiple plans in moments by duplicating the original plan in just a few clicks.

Making modifications produces alternative plans quickly and the automated validation dashboard displays results which can be compared and easily visualized to show the impact on the time and cost estimated through the different scenarios. You can generate individual drilling programs or reports for all the different plans.

Following the evaluation of the different well concepts, you can identify the best possible plan and assign a master plan—the design that is selected for execution. The digital drilling program (DDP) generated for the execution phase is based on the selected master plan.

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DrillPlan Feature Release: Multi-Dimension Sensitivity Analysis

The multi-dimension sensitivity analysis workflow performs multi-depth engineering analysis throughout the entire hole section, using interactive analytics displays fully customized to your requirements. This workflow visualizes detailed engineering results for hydraulics and torque and drag in the context of your formation pressures and equipment constraints. This enables you to identify the best combination of operational parameters for the optimization of your well design. 

With the DrillPlan coherent well construction planning solution, you have access to all your engineering tools and data in a common system with integrated cross domain workflows. Automated engineering analysis and validation is applied across your entire well design; for each hole section and every run. The validation dashboard uses a simple traffic light system to highlight if the plan is valid or whether you need to interrogate with more detailed engineering analysis.

The multi-dimension sensitivity analysis workflow generates a scenario of the drilling run that you want to evaluate. This enables you to visualize multi-depth engineering results through a customizable dynamic analytics environment to gain a better understanding of your well design.  

This workflow provides you with the tools to perform a deep assessment of your existing plan by visualizing in detail the results of torque, drag, buckling, hydraulics, ECD, and hole cleaning for drilling and tripping activities. The interactive analytics displays facilitates the analysis of hundreds of scenarios to efficiently perform complex engineering analysis in the context of the hydraulic and mechanical limitations of the rig, tubulars, and anticipated geology. 

This workflow simplifies the identification of the best combination of drilling parameters to optimize your design and to ensure the delivery of a coherent drilling program for safe execution. 

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DrillPlan Feature Update: Automated Engineering Analysis and Validation

DrillPlan integrates the core well construction engineering workflows in a single solution, allowing contextual data sharing and collaboration between your entire planning team. You instantly validate your entire well design every time you make a design change, with over 30 engineering calculations running automatically for hydraulics, torque and drag, casing design, well integrity and more. The automated engineering analysis provides instant results based on industry standard and best in class science based on SLB’s extensive drilling engineering and operational experience.

With the DrillPlan coherent well construction planning solution, you have access to all your engineering tools and data in a common system with integrated cross domain workflows. All these workflows are fully integrated at the process level, which enables all the engines to work with the same shared information. DrillPlan applies automated engineering analysis and validation across your entire well design - for each hole section and every run. For every change in the well design, over 30 automated engines run continuously in the background, with a simple traffic light system highlighting if the plan is valid and coherent.

The validation dashboard includes automated engineering analysis for tri-axial casing design; this provides a comprehensive evaluation of casing integrity, with calculations of burst, collapse, tension, compression, von misses and buckling. It includes casing and liner running details on hydraulics and torque drag per hole section, ensuring the generation of an optimum and safe casing design throughout your entire well.

The validation dashboard includes all the critical calculations for establishing optimal drilling operational parameters and constraints per hole section. This includes hydraulics validation with results on total pressure, ESD, ECD, hole cleaning index and bit pressure. The calculations also verify torque & drag with details of hookload, surface torque, stress, buckling, overpull and connection make up torque. The automatic validation of all these engines enables effective execution while drilling your well.

The kick tolerance is one of the important criteria. Single bubble kick tolerance calculations are run for all sections, providing critical information for defining the casing seat position and sectioning (integrity) of the well bore.

With DrillPlan automated engineering analysis and validation, you can increase the efficiency on your planning process while ensuring a coherent well construction program and thus achieve safer and optimized operations.

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DrillPlan Feature Release: Casing and Liner Running Analysis with Automated Validation

Casing and liner running operations are critical to the well construction process. In DrillPlan casing and liner running engineering calculations are now available and include hydraulics to determine optimal tripping speed, and torque & drag to analyze pick-up and slack-off weights. These workflows are also now incorporated in the automated engineering analysis (AEA) so your engineering is validated every time a design change is made. Results can be visualized in plots and through the DrillPlan validation dashboard to ensure your drilling program coherency which leads to improved operational reliability.

With the DrillPlan coherent well construction planning solution, you have access to all your engineering tools and data in a common system with integrated cross domain workflows. You can now also perform automated analysis and validation of your casing and liner running, allowing you to optimize operational parameters while completing your well. Casing and liner running engineering calculations include; hydraulics to determine optimal tripping speed, and torque & drag to analyze pick-up and slack-off weights. These engines run automatically utilizing the applied design constraints and the contextual data shared by your team members; from trajectory design, casing/liner specifications, mud weight window, and fluid program. You can now optimize your drilling engineering planning with automated casing and liner running analysis and validation workflows – saving time and improving your drilling program coherency and operational reliability throughout well construction operations.

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DrillPlan Feature Release: Wellbarrier Illustrations

The Wellbarrier illustration tool workflows are now integrated and automated as part of the well design process in the DrillPlan coherent well construction planning solution. Well details are seamlessly shared from your project, so data is only entered once, and the final approved well barrier schematics are presented in your drilling report.

The integration of the WellBarrier illustration tool into the DrillPlan coherent well construction planning solution allows users to efficiently create and define well barrier schematics using the new “define well barriers” task. Users launch the WellBarrier tool directly within the DrillPlan solution to access the software. Barrier illustrations are then automatically generated using all the well design contextual details for the planned activities and saved to the state “as planned” when finalised. When closing the WellBarrier tool, users can place the barrier schematics into the DrillPlan solution with a single click, making them visible and available in the drilling report.

In the Wellbarrier tool, the well barrier schematic workflow allows users to visualize the well, with all its well barrier elements, in a clear and consistent manner. It ensures that all the well barrier elements are listed with information on how they are qualified and monitored.

Today, with the drilling planning workflows for well barriers integrated into the DrillPlan solution, users are able to prepare wellbore schematics for a complete range of activities throughout the life cycle of the well in the Wellbarrier software.

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