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Real-Time Well Execution Definition

Real-Time Well Execution is defined as industry best practice aided by rig-site data capturing for enabling "right time" decision support. This involves the ability to monitor well progress in real time, and to adjust the program in response to events or deviations in subsurface conditions from those expected prior to the commencement of the well. This includes, and is not necessarily restricted to:

• Use of MWD/LWD tools
• Use of visualization tools to display the well path in the subsurface model
• Integration of engineering well planning tools with subsurface interpretation and modeling tools.

Well Planing Definition
Best Practice Definition
IDEF Definition
Visualization Tools Definition
Integration Definition

Real-Time Well Execution be accommodated by the Immersive Drilling Planner, which was started developing at ARCO, and is being continued at the BP Center for Visualization at the University of Colorado at Boulder under the direction of Geoff Dorn (web site is http://www.Colorado.EDU/Research/bpVisCenter/Research_ImmersiveDrilling.htm. Geoff's team has successfully started the IDP consortium - had the first meeting in late May. We also have an agreement with TSURF for commercialization of the Drilling Planner. A desktop version of the current version of the application should be available later this year. (The immersive version will take a little longer to come to market). Click Here for some photos of the facilities and examples of immersive well planning are included in this Best Practice.