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Directional Drilling Expert System
E.Martinez, Corpoven. S.A.
SPE Member
Copyright 1992, Society of Petroleum Engineers, Inc
This paper was presented at the Second Latin American Petroleum Engineering Conference, II LAPEC, of the Society of Petroleum Engineers held in Caracas, Venezuela, March 811,1992
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ABSTRACT.
Minimizing the cost of drilling a directional
well is a major concern for the drilling
engineer.
This
computerized
system
was
developed in order to provide the drilling
engineer with an advisory tool which recommends changes in the Bottom Hole Assemblies
(BHA). This results in better accuracy and
faster decision making; hence, considerable
savings in time and money.
The system involves five integrated modules:
A knowledge base where all the expertise
concerning the subject is stored.
.
A database with information from the BHAs
used in drilling of previous directional
wells and their statistical behavior.
A database with information' from the
theoretical behavior of BHAs commonly
used in directional drilling.
A
database
with
information
from
directional surveys performed over the
path of the bore hole.
Comp~terized
applications developed to
calculate and plot the path of the bore
hole.
INTRODUCTION.
The
use
of
tools
that
permit
process
optimization, reduce the time spent between
operations, develop new techniques and provide
information updated and precise, are of high
priority in the Industry and are part of the
strategic
planning
of
many
successful
companies around the world.
Constant efforts are employed in incorporating
new technologies in order to improve the
processes,
specially those
including new
computational applications, as well as those
promoting the creative abilities of the
personnel.
Among other innovative techniques,
Expert
Systems have drawn special attention. The most
meaningful ambition is that these Intelligent
Systems can keep the knowledge as part of the
capital of the Corporations.
How can we define Expert systems?
This
question has generated great controversy, but
scientific and engineering circles agreed that
it can be an "AUTOMATIZED SYSTEM THAT USES
ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE,
AND
MIMICS
THE
RESPONSES OF A HUMAN EXPERT IN ONE SPECIFIC
FIELD OF THE KNOWLEDGE, BEING CAPABLE OF
SOLVING PROBLEMS IN THE ABSENCE OF THE HUMAN
EXPERT" .
The main difference between an Expert System
and a Conventional System is the capacity of
the former to deal with real life problems,
that presents challenges to the capacity of
the
brain
of a human being, and to solve
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parameters,
between the
drilling to
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The
expert also makes
calculations and
outlines the course of the hole, so this
processes also should be covered by the
system.
Additionally
this
expert
system
has
uncertainty management mechanisms, in order to
get the most appropriate answer
in an
environment where many inputs are not facts
only assumptions or good estimates. In thi~
system the uncertainty factor expresses the
lack of confidence in the BHA's behavior. This
uncertainty
factor is inversely related to
the amount of data, or experience gathered by
the system, and directly related to the
variance span of the directional behavior in
previous drillings.
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REFERENCES.
BHAs
used
in
drilling
of
previous
directional wells and their statistical
behavior.
Rolston, David
Inteligencia Artificial y Sistemas Expertos
McGraw Hill 1990
Zambrano, Alexander
sistemas Expertos
UDO 1990
Mishkoff, Henry
Understanding Artificial Intelligence
Texas Instruments 1986
Chorafas, Dimitri
Appliying Expert Systems in Business
McGraw Hill 1987
Harnell, Tim
Sistemas Expertos
Anaya Multimedia 1986
to the
CONCLUSIONS.
This system has been used at various wells in
different fields in eastern Venezuela operated
by CORPOVEN. The experience o~tained by this
activities have been valuable, first because
the system has gathered data related with the
actual behavior of' the BHAs used in those
areas, and this results in less uncertaintity,
and less time spent in the selection of BHAs
and the optimization of the course and the
pullout string times; second more personnel
have received training in the process, and are
more conscious about the parameters involved
in the determination of the adequate action
for rectifying a deviated course.
Wong, V.G.
Conocimiento Experto
U.L.A. 1989
Jackson, Peter
Introduction to Expert Systems
Addison Wesley 1986
Klahr, Philip;Watherman, Donald
Expert Systems: Techniques, Tools and Applications
Addison Wesley 1986
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