DrillPlan

Coherent well planning solution. Produce better-quality drilling programs in minutes

Overview

Well planning is a complex multidisciplinary process. It often requiring numerous design iterations, frequent data exchanges and close collaboration between team members and service providers. DrillPlan™ coherent well planning and engineering solutions, empower your planning teams with a holistic, collaborative system, uniting data, advanced simulations, and optimized workflows.

DrillPlan solutions help ensure all elements of the well design remain coherent, compliant with company standards, and are optimized for performance. By evaluating broad design considerations and their dependencies, potential issues and risks can be identified earlier in the planning cycle. Through automation and design validation, you can deliver faster, higher-quality drilling programs—making every well better than the last

Applications

DrillPlan solutions have all your engineering needs covered, with our extensive end-to-end engineering workflows:

Basic engineering
Covering trajectory design, survey management, casing and tubing design, hydraulics, swab and surge calculations, and torque and drag analysis.

Advanced engineering
Covering completions, cement design, mud weight window, multi-phase kick tolerance, bit and string analysis, advanced liner running, casing drilling planning and well control and blow out simulations (through integration with Drillbench™ dynamic drilling simulation software).

Operational planning
Covering activity planning, risk management, authorization for expenditure (AFE) planning, drilling parameter optimization, emissions management, sensitivity analysis, project management, and well integrity (through integration with the Wellbarrier™ well integrity life cycle solution).

Data and integration capabilities
Covering offset well analysis, data access and open APIs, system extensibility, automated reporting, well montage automation, and subsurface integration.

Well construction environments
Whatever well construction environment you are planning in DrillPlan solutions has the tools to help you plan effectively and efficiently:

Factory, land, offshore, deep-water, and sub-sea
Conventional and unconventional
Single bore, multi-lateral, re-entry
HPHT
Casing while drilling
Entire planning lifecycle from feasibility and concept, to detailed engineering, to execution
Any well type: exploration, development, in-fill, production, injection, or geothermal
Support all kinds of strings: BHA, liner, casing, tie-back, running string, and inner string

Data residency
Our cloud native solutions can be deployed on global public cloud and with a variety of in-country solutions, enabling access whatever your data residency restrictions.

Benefits

Improve well planning efficiency, enhance collaboration, optimize well designs, and provide significant cost savings.

Improved efficiency
Automated design validation, single point of data entry, automated reporting—offering time savings of up to 50%.

Enhanced collaboration
Seamless integration with subsurface and operations, improving quality and reducing the risk of discrepancies.

Optimized well designs
Plan and compare multiple concepts and scenarios side-by-side to provide deep insights, sensitivities, and enhanced decision-making.

Cost savings
Optimize for cost, time, or emissions savings.

Features

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Open

Our extensive catalog of open RESTful APIs enables operators and third-party applications to seamlessly integrate with DrillPlan solutions. With easy, well-documented access to all your data, it unlocks limitless opportunities for automation and integration with existing workflows.

The system is highly extensible, enabling you to build and develop your own simulators and validation engines that run like native workflows within DrillPlan solutions.

Auto-documentation

Embedded within DrillPlan solutions is a powerful reporting infrastructure, enabling the creation of fully customized and automated documents, such as digital drilling programs. A library of over 400 dynamic tables, plots, figures, and text can be freely added to a report—they are then automatically populated using the latest engineering data. The result is unparalleled consistency and efficiency in report generation.

Centralized system configuration

Promote standardization across your organization with the ability to define corporate settings. Options, such as casing load case definitions, tool catalogs, engine configurations etc., can be permission controlled and regionalized—giving subject matter experts (SMEs) confidence that corporate standards are upheld across business units.

Collaborative user experience

The collaborative user experience enables team members to simultaneously edit the same design, test ideas, and share changes effortlessly. This results in less time searching for data, fewer meetings and emails, and more time to exploring engineering scenarios that can deliver better, safer designs.

Coherent design

With a single point of data entry, a holistic data model, and automatic design dependency management, DrillPlan solutions ensures that your well design always remains coherent. Modeling both the physical geometry and the required execution activities together in one system, significantly reduces the possibility for discrepancies to emerge between disciplines. Including a rich automated reporting environment further extends coherency to downstream consumers of the drilling program or well montage.

Auto-validation

DrillPlan solutions perform over 100 different automated validations through the AEA framework. These validations are automatically rerun after each design update, ensuring all design elements remain coherent and compliant with company standards. This removes unnecessary manual freeing team members to explore design options and avoid overlooked risks for better, safer designs.

Living Digital webinar spotlight

Exploring extensibility options in DrillPlan

Learn about the extensibility options in the DrillPlan coherent well construction planning solution. We’ll cover the fundamentals of the collaboration model, automated engineering analysis, the various extensibility options available to developers and what this delivers for our customers.

Drillplan. Exploring extensibility options

Join this webinar to learn about the extensibility options in the DrillPlan coherent well construction planning solution.

OMV Upstream

John Watters, VP of well delivery on how OMV upstream maximizes well planning efficiency.

OMV Upstream - Maximizing well planning efficiency

Sharing the company’s experience with the DrillPlan solution, Vice President of Well Delivery for OMV Upstream John Watters discusses how the solution digitally transformed the company’s well planning process to overcome challenges across multidisciplinary teams.