Low oil prices are forcing the oil and gas industry to reduce the well construction cost. This calls for new and more efficient technologies and methods. Cost optimization may have negative impact on the risk level as less resources are available. Even with a strong focus on risk and new regulatory requirements, the well control risk level is not decreasing, but rather shows an increase.

A new workflow has therefore been introduced in a collaborative cloud-based well planning system that combines the most advanced transient, multiphase engine with an automated procedure based on drillers method.

The workflow will improve the quality of the well control planning as it will enable a simple way of automatic recalculation when the project context is changing. The data flow and quality control of data will also be improved and result in more up to date planning results. The automation of the process removes a huge amount of manual work that up to know has been required to keep the well control calculations synchronized with the project plan.

New engine features unique to well control modeling like transient temperature and full compositional tracking adds resolution and accuracy to the well control planning results and helps deliver consistency in the results.

The new workflow will deliver well control calculations with better resolution and accuracy with much less effort than what is normal today and should therefore help to reduce risk and cost associated with well planning.