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Norway’s Kongsberg have been work- ing together for several years to develop something similar – it’s just that it’s for

Sound optimizing well construction opera- tions, not military operations.

DRILLING

By the end of this year, the BP Well

Advisor project will have seen the creation and deployment of a suite of 11 advice “consoles,” which integrate real-time data with predictive tools, processes and

Being able to see what is happening downhole real-time is one knowledge from subject matter experts to help and improve ef? ciencies and reduce thing. Having the subject matter experts on the job, see the same down time on a range of activities from data, as well as predictive analysis and all helpfully visualized, casing running to tripping and remote from wherever they might be, is another. BP and Kongsberg have

BOP pressure testing. Some use similar been working on it. Elaine Maslin found out more.

“widgets,” such as a 2D wellbore visual- ization tool, and all have been created by st he 21 century world is becoming another location, who is liaising with a mining BP’s specialists to create opera- ever interconnected and auto- superior elsewhere, and, in turn, con- tional speci? c tools that have then been

T mated. It could be argued that sulting a defense minister, etc. put through iterative testing and trials in space and military technology are leading Thanks to today’s communications real world situations.

the way. technologies, they’re all connected. It’s not just about offering visualiza-

In the military, drones are ? own over They’re all able to see the same informa- tions, says John Wearing, Kongsberg remote regions by pilots sitting in of? ces tion at the same time and then make Digital’s Houston-based president. These on a military camp the other side of the decisions, drawing on live analysis from tools provide a wide range of work? ows world. At another location, expert facial the subject matter experts as well as across drilling operations, with built recognition staff assess the images the real-time live data and visualizations. in business logic and business ? ow drones gather. Both sites are then linked It’s a world the oil industry isn’t processes, presented at the right time, in via satellite to a mission commander at too far away from emulating. BP and one common framework.

Shedding light on drilling operations. Photo from iStock.

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