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Benefits of Immersive Well Planning, Reasons for Improved Results; and Continuing R&D

Benefits of Immersive Well Planning:

  • Effective and efficient communication of complex information
  • Enables multidisiplinary collaboration, avoiding confusion, and miscommunication
  • Provides majore cycle time reduction. Multi-well planning projects using this tehnology than normally take weeks to months, have been accomplished in a few days to a week
  • Helps improve success rates by:
    • Optimizing economics
    • Minimizing mistakes:
      • Optimize platforms for infill wells
      • Avoid existing infrastructure
    • Maximize safety:
      • Avoid drilling hazards
      • Minimize well collision risk
  • Reasons for Improved Results:
    • Integration of data
    • Integration of discipline specialists
    • Collaboration
    • Intuitive display and interaction in 3-D
    • Rapid re-planning to accomodate "reality"
  • Continuing R & D - IDP Consortium and the University of Colorado:
    • "Brownfield" drilling
    • VR interface and 3-D manipulation
    • Geological/geophysical uncertainties
    • Additional engineering calculations
    • Tele-collaboration

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