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News Release from: Curvaceous Software | Subject: Drilling Patent
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 11 December 2007
Drilling better oil + gas wells cheaper
and faster
Curvaceous Software are pleased to announce the grant of another US Patent for a novel Geometric Process Control application, for real-time control of the drilling of oil and gas wells
The patent captures the performance envelope of the best drill operator as an n-dimensional solid object and then reproduces this experience as real-time guidance for less-experienced operators thus reducing the variability in performance that is inherent between different drill operators This new and very different approach to controlling a drilling rig is based on the innovative and highly acclaimed Geometric Process Control (GPC) technology, which is well-established in over 100 downstream process industries and has already achieved success in problem-solving and offshore process improvement applications with several major North Sea operators
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 17 May 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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How to drill better oil wells?
Curvaceous Software announce the award of a Patent for guiding a drilling rig operator in real-time to operate according to the best drilling specifications available, using GPC software
This extension to GPC offers solutions to adaptively control a drill in real time without the need of any mathematical knowledge or the ability to describe problems with algebraic or differential equations.
Dr Robin Brooks of Curvaceous Software will be speaking of this new approach to drilling oil wells cheaper and faster in his presentation on 26th February 2008 at the conference organised by the Society of Petroleum Engineers on Intelligent Energy, in Amsterdam.
He is in complete agreement with the co-chair of the conference that 'it is vital for the oil and gas industry to embrace more efficient methods that enable better production performance'.
Dr Brooks says 'what we have demonstrated with this technology and the subsequent patent is that controlling drilling rigs should not be over-complicated and therefore add to production expenditure.
In this day and age there should be procedures that allow seamless knowledge transfer for better efficiency.
GPC tools let you do exactly that and hence decrease variability'. Request a free brochure from Curvaceous Software ...
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