The operator estimated a total savings of 781 drilling hours, equivalent to 33 days of rig time, by having access to real-time data and digitalized workflows. This enabled the operator to streamline operations, improve performance, and leverage data to inform decision making and derisk operations for a district heating project in Germany.

A geothermal operator in Germany was developing a district heating project in a rural area near the Austrian border. The operator needed to minimize disturbance to the environmentally sensitive surrounding area by completing the project as quickly and efficiently as possible, with minimal cost overruns beyond the budget. The goal was to derisk drilling to stay within the estimated 35% to 50% of the total budget and deliver the project on time. To ensure real-time coverage of drilling activities, the operator decided to digitalize workflows and include real-time surveillance and analysis for torque and drag tracking, drilling tracking, connection performance tracking, and washout event capture. Together, these workflows would streamline operations, improve performance, leverage data to inform decision making, and derisk operations.

Access to real-time data provided by a well construction performance service enabled the drilling team to improve drilling performance by optimizing drilling parameters and BHA, minimize flat time by optimizing mud properties, packoff, and BHA preparation time, as well as preempt drilling events. As a result, the operator estimated a total savings of 781 drilling hours or 33 days of rig time.

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