Improving operational decisions and allocating financial risk or reward in an engineered system

摘要

A system is provided to improve the operational decisions and the transfer of financial risk (or reward) in an engineered system, e.g. oil-well drilling. An interactive decision-support planning tool 100 aids a user as to how select a portfolio of engineered systems and entities that the systems will process (e.g. aircraft engines and flights, rigs and reserves, apparatus configuration, apparatus inspection, apparatus online sensors, dynamic operations decisioning for the apparatus and drill path or asset dispatching) and a contractual incentive to allocate risks to stakeholders best positioned to abate them. Tool 100 comprises a simulator 102, for performing simulations of well drilling, and aims to reduce a fleet's financial risk associated with the cost of operations below that achievable without using the tool and/or increase financial return associated with the cost of activity above that achievable without using the tool, such that financial risk and/or financial return and allocated in a desired manner among a plurality of operations stakeholders.