Drilling industry benefits by sharing successful drilling practices
- OGCI Management Inc., Tulsa, OK (United States)
- Gas Research Inst., Chicago, IL (United States)
Benefit can be created when drilling organizations systematically cooperate to identify and share successful practices. The successful drilling practices (SDP) approach identifies, documents, disseminates, and measures the benefits for a given study area. This method provides operators with performance benchmarks and an ongoing knowledge base. As this article shows, successful drilling practices consist of aggregated, small-scale tasks that serve to improve the overall drilling process. It is the summation of these incremental improvements that accounts for the majority of cost reductions and improvements in drilling efficiencies, as opposed to larger-scale, single-process improvements. The SDP approach strives to capture and share these small-operating practices with the industry. When operators wish to identify and document such practices, they can be hindered by a general lack of detailed operating records. Morning reports fail to document all the small tricks of the trade, and an operator may lose experience with personnel turnover. Furthermore, without the consent of other operators, it is impossible for any single operator to collect and analyze the detailed drilling information required to identify successful practices. Only through joint-operator efforts can the successful practices be compiled for industry-wide use.
- OSTI ID:
- 651210
- Journal Information:
- Oil and Gas Journal, Vol. 96, Issue 39; Other Information: PBD: 28 Sep 1998
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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