Published: 04/14/2025
Published: 04/14/2025
We've entered a new era in well integrity management with the Wellbarrier™ well integrity life cycle solution, a transformative, centralized, cloud-based platform. Designed with collaboration and communication at its core, this innovative solution transforms how we assess and monitor well integrity risks throughout a well's lifecycle.
The Wellbarrier solution enables efficient design, collaboration, and creation of well barrier schematics, making critical information accessible to all stakeholders and team members. By centralizing data, the Wellbarrier solution eliminates the risks associated with fragmented information being spread across different systems, offering significant time savings, consistency, and collaborative benefits. For instance, Equinor has successfully created over 15,000 schematics using Wellbarrier, saving more than 45,000 engineering hours.
Harnessing the power of automation and integration, the Wellbarrier solution minimizes unnecessary manual work, connecting and enriching data to ensure well integrity is maintained throughout the entire lifecycle. Imagine the possibilities when your team can focus on strategic tasks instead of repetitive manual work.
One standout feature of the Wellbarrier solution is its ability to automate the generation of illustrations and schematics. Through its API, users can set up an orchestration process that enables semi or fully-automated data ingestion. With just a few clicks, engineers can generate illustrations and barrier schematics, significantly reducing the time and effort required while improving quality and safety.
The Wellbarrier solution also offers semi and fully-automated illustration and schematics generation through integration with applications like DrillPlan™ coherent well planning and engineering solutions. In this process well data is automatically transferred to the Wellbarrier solution, and barrier schematics are generated before being fed back into DrillPlan solutions, to enhance future planning. Although this process is considered fully automated, it still requires human review to ensure the results are appropriate and accurate. This is particularly effective during the drilling phase, where the primary barrier is typically the overbalance fluid, making the schematics relatively straightforward.
To fully maximize the benefits of automation, integration with other software and applications used in the well life cycle and well construction process is essential. We've already covered the integration with DrillPlan solutions as a key example. Let's delve into more.
Integration with SCADA systems enables automated monitoring of well integrity by ingesting real-time data such as pressure and flow readings This continuous tracking ensures that the well operates within safe and predefined limits. Facilitated by the API of the Wellbarrier solution, seamless data transfer reduces the need for manual data entry and minimizes the risk of human error.
Automated workflows can further enhance efficiency, especially for organizations managing many similar wells. The Wellbarrier solution simplifies this process by utilizing templates that contain predefined illustrations, schematics, and risk assessments based on standard well configurations. For instance, one customer has implemented an orchestration system that automatically creates wells from these templates, inserts the necessary data, and generates schematics. The system provides an initial version of each well setup, which drastically reduces the time and effort required to configure wells. By integrating actual data from source systems, these templates can then be automatically updated to match specific well characteristics, providing a partially automated setup with room for customization as needed.
Overall, integration-enabled automation in the Wellbarrier solution offers a multitude of benefits, including significant time savings, improved data accuracy, enhanced collaboration, and proactive well integrity management. While we are only beginning to uncover the vast potential of automation and integration, continuous development and improvement promise to further revolutionize well barrier management.
Here are some of the exciting new features we’ve released recently:
These advancements will undoubtedly enhance our capabilities and streamline processes, paving the way for more efficient and effective well barrier management. Stay tuned as we continue to innovate and transform the industry.
