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DRILLING PROJECT MANAGEMENT by Carlos Diaz (Drilling Specialist) Drilling Project Visualization In this first phase, investment projects originate (including drilling projects). The ideas that originate the projects can come, at any time, from any part of the Corporation, but they are generally the product of the analysis of the external and internal environment, or of the SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) that It is done as part of the planning cycles. These analyzes are carried out as a team with the participation of all the Corporation's organizations and under the integrative responsibility of the Corporate Planning units. Conceptualization of the Drilling Project The purpose of this phase is to select the best Well Design option(s) and improve the accuracy of well construction cost and time estimates. All this to achieve the following: • Reduce uncertainty and quantify associated risks • Determine the expected value for the selected option(s). Basically, this phase seeks to meet two main objectives: • Organize for the planning phase of the drilling project • Select the preferred option(s) and request a quote to develop the Basic and Details engineering (Drilling Program) that will allow obtaining a Class II cost estimate. Definition of the Drilling Project The decisions made in the Conceptualization phase constitute the work input to continue with the development of the drilling project and execute the Define phase. The purpose of this phase is to develop in detail the scope and execution plans of the selected option to: • Allow the Corporation to commit funds or obtain the financing required to execute the project. • Prepare the documentation that serves as a basis for the detailed engineering and contracting of the project execution. • Confirm if the expected value of the project meets the business objectives #drilling hashtag #operations hashtag #management hashtag #workover hashtag #engineering hashtag #FEL hashtag #welldesign

You can judge a drilling operation pretty accurately when you drive on location and have a look around, if it's setup right, clean, organized and well maintained, odds are it runs well too. If it's a mess, hoses all over, broken or missing gear, and everything is buried, odds are you won't be making much hole. You can judge an owner's representative/inspection operation pretty accurately when you dig into their experience, if it's real, hands-on, in decision-making positions, with direct accountability, odds are they have the experience and the integrity to support your operation properly. If their resumes end historically at their current position, odds are you might find out when the going gets tough that it's mostly just fluff. #drilling #horizontaldirectionaldrilling #hdd #performance #trenchless #trenchlesstechnology #boring #reaming #albertaenergy #canadianenergy #culture #people #connection #safety #directionaldrilling #water #lng #experience #project #environment #optimizedtrenchless #pipethruster #supplychainmanagement #supplychain #projectmanagment #data #contracts #construction #constructionmanagement #directpipe #tunnelling #equipment #innovation #technology #pipeline

🌊 Discover the Hidden World Beneath an Offshore Oil Platform! 🌊 Ever stopped to think about what goes on beneath an offshore drilling platform? These engineering marvels are far more than what you see on the ocean surface. They house complex systems that allow us to safely and efficiently tap into energy resources buried deep beneath the seafloor. Let’s take a closer look! 👀✨ --- 🔍 Anatomy of an Offshore Drilling System 🔍 🚢 1. Offshore Platform: The towering structure that floats on the ocean’s surface is like a mini-city on water. It’s equipped with state-of-the-art machinery for drilling operations, crew quarters, and systems to monitor and control the well. From this hub, every step of the drilling process is carefully managed. 🔗 2. Riser: This long, flexible pipe connects the platform to the wellhead on the seabed. It serves as a pathway, allowing drilling fluids, equipment, and extracted oil or gas to travel between the ocean floor and the platform. Without the riser, controlling operations miles below the surface would be impossible! 🛡️ 3. Blowout Preventer (BOP): Sitting on the ocean floor, the BOP is the unsung hero of offshore safety. If something goes wrong—like a sudden spike in pressure—this device can seal off the well and prevent dangerous blowouts. Let’s break down its components: Kill Line & Choke Line: Essential pathways that help manage and stabilize well pressure. Upper & Lower Annulars: Powerful seals that can close around the drill pipe or even seal the wellbore completely. Shear Rams: Sharp blades capable of cutting through the drill pipe, completely closing the well in emergencies. Variable Bore Rams: Adjustable rams that can seal around different pipe sizes, making the system adaptable and reliable. 🔩 4. Wellhead: Located on the seabed, the wellhead provides a secure foundation for the Blowout Preventer and all other subsea equipment. It’s designed to contain high pressure and act as the structural backbone of the well. --- 🏗️ 5. Casing System: The casing system is like the skeleton of the well, made of multiple layers of steel pipes that reinforce the wellbore and prevent it from collapsing. Here’s how it works: Conductor Casing: The first protective layer, which stabilizes the seabed and prevents shallow water from entering the well. Surface Casing: Installed to isolate and protect freshwater zones from contamination and provide a stable base for the Blowout Preventer. Intermediate Casing: Used to seal off troublesome formations and prevent wellbore instability as drilling progresses deeper. Production Casing: The final layer, reaching the oil or gas reservoir. It ensures that extracted hydrocarbons flow safely to the surface for processing. --- 🌍 Why All This Technology? 🌍 Every piece of this system works together to ensure safe and environmentally responsible drilling. Offshore drilling isn’t just about extracting oil and gas—it’s about doing so with precision, care, and advanced safety

🌊 Discover the Hidden World Beneath an Offshore Oil Platform! 🌊 Ever stopped to think about what goes on beneath an offshore drilling platform? These engineering marvels are far more than what you see on the ocean surface. They house complex systems that allow us to safely and efficiently tap into energy resources buried deep beneath the seafloor. Let’s take a closer look! 👀✨ --- 🔍 Anatomy of an Offshore Drilling System 🔍 🚢 1. Offshore Platform: The towering structure that floats on the ocean’s surface is like a mini-city on water. It’s equipped with state-of-the-art machinery for drilling operations, crew quarters, and systems to monitor and control the well. From this hub, every step of the drilling process is carefully managed. 🔗 2. Riser: This long, flexible pipe connects the platform to the wellhead on the seabed. It serves as a pathway, allowing drilling fluids, equipment, and extracted oil or gas to travel between the ocean floor and the platform. Without the riser, controlling operations miles below the surface would be impossible! 🛡️ 3. Blowout Preventer (BOP): Sitting on the ocean floor, the BOP is the unsung hero of offshore safety. If something goes wrong—like a sudden spike in pressure—this device can seal off the well and prevent dangerous blowouts. Let’s break down its components: Kill Line & Choke Line: Essential pathways that help manage and stabilize well pressure. Upper & Lower Annulars: Powerful seals that can close around the drill pipe or even seal the wellbore completely. Shear Rams: Sharp blades capable of cutting through the drill pipe, completely closing the well in emergencies. Variable Bore Rams: Adjustable rams that can seal around different pipe sizes, making the system adaptable and reliable. 🔩 4. Wellhead: Located on the seabed, the wellhead provides a secure foundation for the Blowout Preventer and all other subsea equipment. It’s designed to contain high pressure and act as the structural backbone of the well. --- 🏗️ 5. Casing System: The casing system is like the skeleton of the well, made of multiple layers of steel pipes that reinforce the wellbore and prevent it from collapsing. Here’s how it works: Conductor Casing: The first protective layer, which stabilizes the seabed and prevents shallow water from entering the well. Surface Casing: Installed to isolate and protect freshwater zones from contamination and provide a stable base for the Blowout Preventer. Intermediate Casing: Used to seal off troublesome formations and prevent wellbore instability as drilling progresses deeper. Production Casing: The final layer, reaching the oil or gas reservoir. It ensures that extracted hydrocarbons flow safely to the surface for processing. --- 🌍 Why All This Technology? 🌍 Every piece of this system works together to ensure safe and environmentally responsible drilling. Offshore drilling isn’t just about extracting oil and gas—it’s about doing so with precision, care, and

So let's talk about the qualifications of Drilling Engineers / Supervisors and project managers. It is my position that all drilling supervisors represent strong candidates for project management roles; however, not all project managers are well-suited for drilling supervisor positions. Below, I present ten fundamental terminologies associated with well drilling and completion project management. These terms are integral to the daily responsibilities of a typical drilling supervisor on the rig, yet there appears to be a lack of awareness among many supervisors regarding these concepts. 1. Project Scope - This outlines the extent to which the well will be drilled, including the total depth (TD), the size of the well, and whether it will be an oil or gas producer. At the initiation stage, we can refer to this as the "marching order." 2. Planning involves the drilling engineering team working with subsurface data, gathering information, and developing well delivery processes from the start to finish of the well. 3. The project charter is the most important document for any project, so always ask for it as a good project manager. This document is sometimes referred to as the drilling program. Take my advice to hold your SDE by the jugular if you don't have this on your desk prior to DWOP. 4. Budgeting, simply referred to as AFE (Authorization for Expenditure), involves tracking daily rig expenses. 5. Monitoring refers to the role of a project supervisor, ensuring that a well is delivered safely, timely, and within budget limits and is fit for purpose. 6. Control can be defined simply as the use of risk registers and suggested mitigation strategies. Hold your SDE by the JUgular for this one too. 7. Scope creep refers to uncontrolled changes to a project’s scope, which can occur due to misunderstandings, human errors, alterations requested by stakeholders, or even unforeseen circumstances like a stuck pipe causing non-productive time (NPT). It is essential to avoid scope creep at all costs. 8. WBS, or Work Breakdown Structure, is used to divide work into manageable tasks. This is similar to the work instructions provided by drilling supervisors during shifts on the rig. 9. The baseline for all components of the triple constraint helps assess your performance throughout the project's duration. It indicates when your costs remain within the limits of your AFE, among other factors. 10. Deliverables - this refers to the results produced at the end of the project (producing oil and gas well).

Planning & Design Wells Accurately.. A Protection from Drilling Problems In well planning, the key to achieving objectives successfully is to design drilling programs and calculation the well profile on the basis of expectation of possible hole problems rather than on caution and control (keeping something harmful under control or within limits). Drilling problems can be very costly. It is almost certain that problems will occur while drilling a well, even in very carefully planned wells. For example, in areas in which similar drilling practices are used, hole problems may have been reported where no such problems existed previously because formations are non-homogeneous. Therefore, two oil wells near each other may have totally different geological conditions. Well planning is one of the most demanding aspects of drilling engineering requiring integration of engineering principles, HSE philosophies and learnings from incidents. Although well planning methods and practices may vary but the key objective is a safely drilled well meeting operational requirements. As per Drilling HSE requirements, well development is subjected to Site Specific Safety Plan (SSSP) and the purpose of this Site Specific Safety Plan (SSSP) is manage risks associated with release of well bore gases or fluids and to ensure a quick and effective response to emergencies that can be implemented. A web based Electronic Well Delivery Process (e-WDP) was developed to facilitate generation of SSSP using QRA data base for efficient and fit for the purpose SSSP. By using the drilling simulator software like Drillbench simulator while drilling operation, we can expect any problem before it's occur, and immediately acts and take a best solution to modify the properties of drilling fluid or drillstring (WOB, BHA), by checking the drilling factors to overcome any problem that may occur.

NAVIGATING THE COMPLEXITIES OF PILE DRILLING: Lessons Learned on Site As an assistant site engineer and quality control officer, I had the opportunity to work on a complex pile drilling and installation project, which turned out to be a truly challenging yet rewarding experience. The site presented challenges that tested our technical skills and problem-solving abilities. One major issue was the inconsistent earth pressure in various areas, which caused the drilling rods to get stuck and made reaching the required depth nearly impossible. While we found solutions for some cases, there were instances where the rods and bits were completely immobilized, requiring creative approaches to resolve the issues. We also encountered variations in soil layers. Hard rock formations forced us to terminate some piles prematurely. In such cases, we adjusted reinforcement and concrete to meet structural requirements. Additionally, hardwood and underground iron rods presented further obstacles, with some rods completely immobilizing our tools. Despite these setbacks, I learned so much about the importance of persistence, teamwork, and adaptability. With the help of my boss and the team, we implemented several solutions to overcome these challenges: - Pile Installation to Support High Earth Pressure: Where earth pressure was too high, we installed piles to the sides of the point to provide additional support. This was also used in cases where rods and bits became stuck. - Bentonite for Soil Softening: To make drilling easier, we used Bentonite, a chemical that softens the soil and improves the drilling process. This was essential from the start to the end of the drilling. - Hard Rock Obstructions: When hard rock was encountered, we terminated the pile once it passed 75% of the required depth. In such cases, we increased the reinforcement or adjusted the concrete mix to meet the structural requirements. These challenges, though daunting, were valuable learning experiences that highlighted the importance of problem-solving in real-world engineering. I’m proud to have been part of a team that tackled these issues head-on and found solutions that allowed us to continue making progress. Have you faced any unexpected challenges on-site that pushed your problem-solving abilities? I’d love to hear your experiences and solutions in the comments below. Let’s learn from each other! #CivilEngineering #PileDrilling #EngineeringSolutions #ConstructionProjects #GeotechnicalEngineering #FoundationEngineering #SiteEngineering #BuildingStrongFoundations #ConstructionManagement #EngineeringInnovation #ProblemSolving #TeamworkMakesTheDreamWork #ProfessionalGrowth #CareerDevelopment #SustainableEngineering #LessonsLearned #InnovativeSolutions #EngineeringChallenges #WorkplaceStories #StructuralEngineering #FutureOfEngineering #ProjectManagement #LearningOnSite #BuildingTheFuture #EngineeringMindset #MotivationForEngineers

The One Minute Knowledge by DK Construction and operation process of offshore oil platforms. 1. Definition of Platform Rig: - An offshore platform rig, also known as a drilling rig, is a structure used for exploring and producing oil and gas in the open sea. - These platforms are large steel or concrete structures installed in water depths ranging from shallow to deep water, depending on the location and project requirements. - The purpose of platform rigs is to offer a reliable and secure foundation for drilling equipment and production facilities. - They enable oil and gas companies to access and extract fossil fuels from the ocean floor, contributing to the energy needs of various industries worldwide. 2. Types of Platform Rigs: - Each platform rig type has unique characteristics and purposes, chosen based on factors such as water depth, environmental conditions, and drilling operation requirements. - The significant types of drilling platforms include: - Fixed Platform: These are self-contained multi-well platforms used for development drilling. They support one or occasionally two complete drilling rigs, drilling supplies, and crew quarters. Wells can be drilled from these platforms, spaced closely at the surface. - Steel Jacket Structure: Consists of a series of steel tubular legs, ranging from 6 to 10 or more. These legs are driven into the seabed to provide stability. - Gravity Structure: These platforms use their own weight to anchor to the seabed. They are often used in deeper waters. - Compliant Platforms: Designed to flex with the movement of waves and currents, maintaining stability. - Compliant Tower: A type of compliant platform with a tower-like structure. - Guyed Tower: Supported by guy wires anchored to the seabed. - Tension Leg Platform: Uses tensioned tendons to hold the platform in place. 3. Construction Process: - The construction timeline for an oil rig can vary significantly depending on factors like rig type, location, size, complexity, and resource availability. - Generally, the entire process, from planning to commissioning, can take anywhere from 18 months to five years. - The steps involved include: Design and Planning: Detailed engineering design, including structural calculations, safety features, and equipment layout. -Fabrication: Manufacturing of components (such as steel jackets) at fabrication yards. - Transportation: Moving fabricated components to the installation site using specialized vessels. - Installation: Assembling the platform on-site, including piling legs into the seabed. - Hook-Up and Commissioning: Connecting wells, pipelines, and production facilities. - Testing and Certification: Ensuring safety and functionality. - Production: Once operational, the platform extracts oil and gas from beneath the ocean floor.

Completion design requires a lot of considerations: • Reservoir parameters • Rock characteristics • Fluids • Exploration & appraisal wells • The environment • Facilities • Drilling • Commercial aspects & Project management HOW DO YOU TIE ALL THIS TOGETHER? Following a clear process can bring all these factors together to help form a well-organised plan. Here’s how: ✅ Start with the reservoir: Every design begins with understanding the unique characteristics of the reservoir, such as its pressure, temperature, permeability, and fluids. These parameters determine the completion strategy. 🌡️ Consider the environmental conditions: Whether it’s offshore or onshore, hot or cold climate, the design has to work in the specific conditions of the field. This ensures safety and efficiency. 📊 Use data from exploration wells: Exploration and appraisal wells give us important clues about how the reservoir behaves. This helps with choosing the right tools and methods for task. 🤝 Coordinate with drilling & facilities: A well is part of a bigger system: Working closely with the teams handling drilling and surface facilities ensures that  everything fits and works smoothly. 💰 Focus on cost and practicality: The design needs to be both effective and affordable. Planning carefully aims for the best results without unnecessary expenses. ******************* Bringing all of this together takes teamwork, attention to detail, and a solid understanding of how a well fits into the bigger picture. Completion design isn’t just about technical work; it’s about making sound, practical choices! If you’re ready to immerse yourself in the topic and learn lots more about it, join our dedicated course presented by Gonzalo Rivero: 📍🗓️ Workover & Completions (DRI38) // 2-6 February 2025 // Doha, Qatar 🔗🌐 https://lnkd.in/deXzq8D8 IDEAL FOR …. : Drilling, intervention, completion & production engineers and managers Reservoir & geology engineers Field maintenance supervisors & operators Safety engineers & personnel selected by their companies for attending special training courses