Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20090076873
Filing Date: September 19, 2007
Inventors: Christopher Donald Johnson, Brock Estel Osborn, Jens Alkemper, Oladimeji Bassir, Onur Ilkin Dulgeroglu
Assignee(s): GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
Current U.S. Classification: 705, 705/008000
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A method of drilling a well, the method comprising:providing an interactive decision-support planning tool that aids a user as to how to drill the well and how to make drilling decisions while the well is being drilled; andoperating the decision-support planning tool to generate drilling decisions that reduce financial risk associated with the cost of drilling the well below that achievable without using the interactive decision-support planning tool and/or increase financial return associated with the cost of drilling the well above that achievable without using the interactive decision-support planning tool, such that the financial risk and/or financial return are allocated in a desired manner among a plurality of drilling operation stakeholders, wherein the stakeholders are held contracturally to subsets of the fleet of asset's risks.
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