Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20090076873
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Summary / Description
| Summary / Description | Article on "ExxonMobil’s Fast Drill Process (FDP) achieves this breakthrough performance by using real-time, computer analysis of the drilling system’s energy consumption." |
Basic Information
| Type of Prior Art | Online Publication |
| URL | http://www.greencarcongress.com... |
| Author/Creator | |
| Title | ExxonMobil Cuts Drilling Time by Up to 35%; But Crude Output Drops 2.3% in Q3 |
| Publication Date | November 1, 2005 |
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| Additional Information | Information is also available at http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3739/is_200601/ai_n17170544/?tag=content;col1 |
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Excerpt
Excerpt From http://www.greencarcongress.com/2005/11/exxonmobil_cuts.html:
ExxonMobil’s drilling organization has developed an optimization process that consistently reduces the time required to drill oil and gas wells by up to 35%.
ExxonMobil’s Fast Drill Process (FDP) achieves this breakthrough performance by using real-time, computer analysis of the drilling system’s energy consumption. This analysis, in turn, helps improve the management of the factors that determine drilling rate, such as weight on the drill bit, rotary speed and torque.
The result is significantly faster drilling rates and reduced downtime.
The company has used FDP in many of its operating areas, and the process improves performance in a broad range of conditions: hard and soft rock, deep and shallow wells, high- and low-angle wells in a variety of mud weights. It has shown comparable success in exploration, delineation and production wells.
A key benefit of the FDP is that it quantifies the hidden cost of slow drilling. Drill rates have historically been evaluated by comparing performance to other wells in the same area. However, there has been no method to confirm that the comparison well was, itself, a high performing well. FDP allows ExxonMobil to make design changes to achieve the objective theoretical performance in a given well. Much of the performance improvement achieved has come from this ability to objectively justify design changes needed to extend previous performance limits.
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http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3739/is_200601/ai_n17170544/?tag=content;col1:
A new optimization process can reduce the time required to drill oil and gas wells by up to 35%. ExxonMobil's Fast Drill Process (FDP) uses real-time, computer analysis of the drilling system's energy consumption, which helps improve the management of the factors that determine drilling rate, such as weight on the drill bit, rotary speed, and torque.
The company started using FDP in operating areas and found the process improves performance in a broad range of conditions. It has shown comparable success in exploration, delineation, and production wells, and also quantifies the hidden cost of slow drilling. Users have historically compared drill rates of current wells to other wells in the same area. However, there has been no method to confirm the comparison well was a high-performing well. FDP allows the driller to make design changes to achieve the objective theoretical performance in a given well. Much of the performance improvement comes from the ability to objectively justify design changes needed to extend previous performance limits.
"With FDP, our drilling technical organization bridges the gap between science and operational practices, to get the right technology in the hole," said Mark Albers, president of ExxonMobil Development Co. |
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