Shell U.K. Limited’s G&G team and reservoir engineers were routinely using the Petrel workflow for drilling, but the drilling engineers were not.

Schlumberger proposed implementing a single multidiscipline solution to be used by all. The power of Petrel seismic-to-simulation software enables collaboration by all parties—including geologists, geophysicists, drillers, reservoir engineers, and production engineers—in the same shared earth model. Schlumberger demonstrated that the solution would be very useful for the drilling engineers and that including them in the unified workflow would benefit the entire team.

Using a single workflow process powered by Petrel software improves the planning workflow as well as optimizing well placement and drilling operations.

Solution requirements

Shell U.K. Limited articulated its requirements, which included the following points:

• Facilitate data/knowledge transfer across the whole subsurface team.
• Help the drilling team to work in a proactive mode using real-time data.
• Promote remote experts’ involvement in operations and decision-making process.
• Support both proprietary Shell technology and third-party technology.
• Enable using a single database for all applications.

During the execution phase, real-time data was superimposed on the modeled data, which showed very good agreement, indicating that models were quite predictive of the actual reservoir drilling conditions.

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