Exploiting the Latent Benefits of Wired Pipes: A Comprehensive Decision Making System

摘要

During the last decade, wired pipes telemetry has emerged as a prevailing alternative to mud pulse telemetry. The current data rate of wired pipes is 57,000 bts and it is expected that this will increase by 20 orders of magnitude to reach 1 Mbts. Such an exponential increase of the amount of data poses serious challenges when it comes to decision making in drilling operations. Ironically enough, an overflood of data, can provide a poverty of attention [1]. Appropriate methods for handling the explosion of data in drilling operations should be developed based on the synergy of interdisciplinary science ranging from artificial intelligence to physics. To take full advantage of wired pipe, such methods should be in place in order to ensure an optimal usage of the information for reducing the non-productive time and ensuring safe operations. In fact, we can resume the ultimate aim of a drilling operation in simple words: drilling fast and safe. In this position paper, we delineate a set of modules that are a part of a comprehensive decision support system which interface the wired data measurements so that to automatize many of the manual operations in drilling. Ongoing work is being performed to tackle each of the modules in details.