USE CASES POWERED BY BIQMIND

     1. ENHANCING TRACKING & MONITORING IN HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENTS

CHALLENGE

The safety and timely location of personnel in hazardous environments such as an offshore oil rig are critical. Current mustering processes are manual or require intervention from on-site personnel. Furthermore, there is no way of detecting if unauthorized personnel has entered a highly hazardous zone. Existing personnel tracking solutions are not designed to deal with limited connectivity issues. Moreover, they typically require extensive installation and on-site support to handle downtime and maintenance.

SOLUTION

An enhanced, secure tracking solution that can accurately determine where personnel are located during an emergency or disaster event. Built on Biqmind Cloud-in-a-box which combines Biqmind Acceleration Framework and Biqmind HazPro™ Server, a mesh network and local low latency data computation remove the need for high speed, high volume internet connection. Redundancy and Disaster Recovery is available on-site with seamless data synching when the connection is re-established. On-site security policies facilitate only non-sensitive information being sent to the cloud. Biqmind Mapping Service provides private, contextualized maps on-premise with no loss of functionality offline. The result is more secure, automated and private tracking of personnel.

BIQMIND BENEFITS

• More secure, automated and private tracking of personnel
• Tracking solution can be scaled up rapidly
• New services (e.g. hazardous gas monitoring) can be added in an agile, straightforward manner to add new services such as hazardous gas monitoring
• Biqmind Cloud-in-a-Box plug and play capability reduces administrative overhead

                                    2. RAPID SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
CHALLENGE

Companies that work on a project-based business model have to constantly deliver proof of concepts before getting customer buy-in for full-scale solution development. Upon project confirmation, hiring additional manpower and delivering the solution in a timely manner, is costly and challenging.

SOLUTION

The Biqmind Acceleration Framework is used for rapid prototyping and delivering proof of concepts (especially integration of disparate heterogeneous data sources and sensors). Post-sales, Biqmind Acceleration Framework is used for rapid microservices and application development at scale using Continuous Deployment and monitoring of services (e.g. resources, logs) to deliver resiliency including self-healing. The Framework is also used for building backend services and offering APIs for mobile and web applications.

This facilitates more timely and well-informed decision making on proof of concepts and also aids in the maintenance of a lean workforce to handle cyclical sales.

BIQMIND BENEFITS

• Rapid prototyping with Biqmind Acceleration Framework allows for quicker customer validation and shortened sales cycles
• Reduced risk for creating new solutions
• The consistent customer experience from proof-of-concept to full-scale deployment

                 3. UNIFYING SECURITY SYSTEMS & 3RD PARTY HARDWARE 

CHALLENGE

Security has always been a major concern for businesses leading to disparate security systems being installed. However, managing multiple disparate systems is a challenge and has raised the need for unified management and operation. Hiring additional manpower is costly and challenging and there is deepening reliance on these systems.

SOLUTION

A cloud-based, unified platform that integrates visitor management, video surveillance, access control/intrusion detection and video intercom with remote access by control center operators. This is made possible via the Biqmind Acceleration Framework that allows for different types of data and services from various 3rd party security systems. Unstructured data such as the video footage from the CCTV can be managed via Biqmind Microservices Data Foundation.

The results are enhanced coordination and management of security events, more timely and well-informed decision-making and optimized productivity through a shared resource being used to monitor multiple sites.

BIQMIND BENEFITS

• Lower future development costs with system integrators using a unified platform to easily integrate additional/multiple hardware
• Consistent customer experience regardless of the hardware used

                    4. MORE EFFECTIVE CORROSION MONITORING 

CHALLENGE

Inspection of pipes in industrial sites is a manual process that requires on-site measurement and access to hard to reach places. In addition, specialist hardware is required to operate in extreme environments and comply with hazardous environment certification. Inaccuracy results due to measurements at different locations. The manpower costs for such work also contributes to long gaps between readings and issues not being identified in a timely manner.

SOLUTION

A wireless monitoring solution is built on the Biqmind Acceleration Framework enables quick decision making and pre-empts maintenance work.

Utilizing Ultrasonic Transducers (with a WirelessHART mesh network backhaul) allow for remote monitoring of the corrosion rate in pipes. Data is available on-site or sent to a cloud-based platform for analysis, defect detection and decision-making.

There is faster defect detection from continuous decision monitoring. Maintenance schedules can be optimized through risk-based assets. Investment in the platform can be managed through amortization; a single corrosion platform being able to serve multiple clients.

BIQMIND BENEFITS

• Rapid time to market: The Biqmind Acceleration Framework automates tasks standard and typical for any software development projects, freeing developers up to focus on building out the business logic

                      5. DRIVING BETTER VEHICLE SENSOR SOLUTIONS

CHALLENGE 

Global supply chains are growing more complex. In the quest to improve supply chains, there is an increased demand for real-time information and connection between the vehicle and the driver. Existing fleet management solutions are not effective in collecting, analyzing and applying data in a timely manner. These solutions tend to be heavily dependent on cellular network availability, with poor resilience to keep operations running when suffering connectivity issues.

SOLUTION

A more advanced fleet management platform with on-board computing.

Leveraging Biqmind Acceleration Framework as a central platform, on-board and cloud-based microservices are connected with in-vehicle IoT devices. On-board, Biqmind HazPro™ Server (or a similar device) facilitates cargo environment monitoring, remote prognostics, video-based driver monitoring, and driver health monitoring. Drivers are enabled to do higher value-added tasks through a dashboard-mounted screen.

BIQMIND BENEFITS

• High availability – minimal impact from dead zones with no or limited cellular connectivity
• Compute power on-board allows for low latency applications such as temperature monitoring of perishable goods
• Biqmind Acceleration Framework provides a central platform for accelerating new enhancements e.g. bridging of 3rd party sensors in a scalable, cost-effective way

              6. DELIVERING COMPUTING POWER TO THE EDGE OF OPERATIONS
                 

CHALLENGE

Enterprises face issues of how to deliver computing power and cloud functionality to the edge of their operations, including and especially at sites that are isolated from the cloud or have limited or no internet connectivity.

SOLUTION

The Biqmind Cloud-in-a-Box. Bringing together the Biqmind Acceleration Framework and the Biqmind HazPro™ Server, it provides for flexibility, scalability, resilience, disaster recovery, and extensibility of your operations. Each unit replicates your cloud wherever you choose to deploy it, including harsh and hazardous environments. It also provides edge computing, storage, and data gateway functionalities for local wireless networks.

BIQMIND BENEFITS

Cloud capabilities, functionalities and applications available anywhere
Edge computing and data processing capabilities facilitate proprietary data processing on restrictive local networks and rapid action on data from local device networks
Built-in redundancy, resilience, and scale

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The Three Stages of Refining

Separation:

In the first step, molecules are separated through atmospheric distillation (i.e. at normal atmospheric pressure), according to their molecular weight. During the process, which is also known as a topping (refining), the oil is heated at the bottom of a 60-meter distillation column at a temperature of 350 to 400°C, causing it to vaporize. The vapors rise inside the column while the heaviest molecules, or residuals, remain at the bottom, without vaporizing. As the vapors rise, the molecules condense into liquids at different temperatures in the column. Only gases reach the top, where the temperature has dropped to 150°C. The liquids, which are become increasingly light the higher they are found in the column, are collected on trays located at different heights of the column. Each tray collects a different petroleum cut (fraction), also known as a petroleum cut, with highly viscous preservation (hydrocarbons) like asphalt (bitumen) at the bottom and gases at the top.

The heavy residuals left over after atmospheric distillation still contain many products of medium density. The residuals are transferred to another column where they undergo a second distillation to recover middle distillates like heavy fuel oil and diesel.

Conversion:

There are still many too heavy hydrocarbon molecules remaining after the separation process. To meet the demand for lighter products, the heavy molecules are “cracked” into two or more lighter ones.

The conversion process, which is carried out at 500°C, is also known as catalytic cracking because it uses a substance called a catalyst to speed up the chemical reaction. This process converts 75% of the heavy products into gas, gasoline, and diesel. The yield can be increased further by adding hydrogen, a process called hydrocracking, or by using deep conversion to remove carbon.

The more complex the operation, the more it costs and the more energy it uses. The refining industry’s ongoing objective is to find a balance between yield and the cost of conversion.

Treating:

Treating involves removing or significantly reducing molecules that are corrosive or cause air pollution, especially sulfur. European Union sulfur emission standards are very stringent. Since January 1, 2009, gasoline and diesel sold in Europe cannot contain more than 10 parts per million (ppm), or 10 milligrams per kilogram, of sulfur. The purpose of these measures is to improve air quality and optimize the effectiveness of catalytic converters used to treat exhaust gas. For diesel, desulfurization, or sulfur removal, is performed at 370°C, at a pressure of 60 bar. The hydrogen used in the process combines with the sulfur to form hydrogen sulfide (H2S), which is then treated to remove the sulfur, a substance used in the industry.

Kerosene, butane, and propane are washed in a caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) solution to remove thiols, also known as mercaptans. This process called sweetening.

Source: planete-energies.com

Robots in the Oil and Gas Industry

Robotic technology is an increasingly pervasive force, to say the least. A report by International Data Corporation said the worldwide robotics market will be worth $135.4 billion in 2019. In nearly every industry, robots are improving productivity and reducing operating costs.

The oil and gas industry is no different. Despite their size and potential investment capital, the oil and gas industry hasn’t previously been a huge adopter of robots. At least, that is, until now.

The Boom and the Bust

In the past decade, there have been several points where the price of oil has been at or exceeded $100 per barrel. Needless to say, other than a major slide in prices during the Great Recession, times have been good for oil and gas companies.

In fact, times have been so good that overall operational productivity has been ignored, until the second half of 2014 where prices dropped quickly and have stayed low ever since. Soaring profits once masked inefficiencies that are now glaringly obvious as profits have become razor thin.

This has created a serious need for robotics in the oil and gas industry. Without the efficiency gains associated with automation, oil and gas companies could have a hard time turning a profit.

What is Robotics Used for in Oil and Gas Applications?

One of the more well-known robots used in the oil and gas industry is the Iron Roughneck, made by National Oilwell Varco Inc. This robot automates the repetitive and quite dangerous task of connecting drill pipes as they’re shoved through miles of ocean water and oil-bearing rock. This automation improves efficiency for the drilling company and improves safety for the workers on the oil rig.

Other applications include remotely-operated aerial drones, automated underwater vehicles, robotic drills and much more. Downtime on an oil rig or other drilling site is expensive – robots are helping solve this problem to boost productivity.

While oil and gas haven’t been quick to adopt automation technology, many companies are beginning to as operational costs cut so deeply into profits. Keep an eye on the oil and gas industry to see exciting new robotic applications the industrial sector hasn’t experienced yet.

Oil and gas drilling is dangerous work. Robots make the workplace safer for everyone. Learn more about how robots improve safety with RIA’s safety standards resource online.

Source: robotics.org

Drilling Process

The drilling process uses a motor, either at the surface or downhole, to turn a string of pipe with a drill bit connected to the end. The drill bit has special “teeth” to help it crush or break up the rock it encounters to make a hole in the ground. While the well is being drilled, a fluid, called drilling mud, circulates down the inside of the drill pipe, passes through holes in the drill bit and travels back up the wellbore to the surface. The drilling mud has two purposes:

• To carry the small bits of rock, or cuttings, from the drilling process to the surface so they can be removed.
• To fill the wellbore with fluid to equalize pressure and prevent water or other fluids in underground formations from flowing into the wellbore during drilling.

Water-based drilling mud is composed primarily of clay, water and small amounts of chemical additives to address particular subsurface conditions that may be encountered. In deep wells, oil-based drilling mud is used because water-based mud cannot stand up to the higher temperatures and conditions encountered. The petroleum industry has developed technologies to minimize the environmental effects of the drilling fluids it uses, recycling as much as possible. The development of environmentally friendly fluids and additives is an important area of research of the oil and gas industry.

Even with the best technology, drilling a well does not always mean that oil or gas will be found. If oil or gas is not found in commercial quantities, the well is called a dry hole. Sometimes, the well encounters oil or gas, but the reservoir is determined to be unlikely to produce in commercial quantities.

Technology has increased the success rate of finding commercial oil or gas deposits with less waste and a smaller impact on the surface. While conventional oil and gas wells are typically vertical, contacting only a limited amount of the target reservoir rock, horizontal wells look like a large “L.” The long horizontal wellbore, sometimes more than 4,000 feet long, contacts a large portion of the productive reservoir. The surrounding rock formation is then hydraulically fractured to release the oil or gas trapped inside. In hydraulic fracturing, massive trucks pump thousands of gallons of fluid into the rock at very high pressures in order to force the rock to crack. These cracks are then propped open with sand to allow a highly conductive passage through which the oil or gas can flow.

In shale fields, as many as 15 major fractures are placed along the horizontal wellbore, serving to connect all those small two-lane roads to wide boulevards and even larger, faster highways. Currently, the limits of this technology are being pushed back every day in order to unleash giant gas resources. In the future, this technology will have to go even farther to allow more fractures and longer horizontal wells. Advances in this area will undoubtedly transform our energy landscape.


Credits: energy4me.org

How is Petroleum Formed?

Oil and natural gas were formed from the remains of prehistoric plants and animals—that’s why they’re called fossil fuels. Hundreds of millions of years ago, prehistoric plant and animal remains settled into the seas along with sand, silt and rocks. As the rocks and silt settled, layer upon layer piled up in rivers, along coastlines and on the sea bottom trapping the organic material. Without air, the organic layers could not rot away. Over time, increasing pressure and temperature changed the mud, sand and silt into rock (known as source rock) and slowly “cooked” the organic matter into petroleum. Petroleum is held inside the rock formation, similar to how a sponge holds water.

Over millions of years, the oil and gas that formed in the source rock deep within the Earth moved upward through tiny, connected pore spaces in the rocks. Some seeped out at the Earth’s surface, but most of the petroleum hydrocarbons were trapped by nonporous rocks or other barriers. These underground traps of oil and gas are called reservoirs. Contrary to popular misconception, reservoirs are not underground “lakes” of oil; they are made up of porous and permeable rocks that can hold significant amounts of oil and gas within their pore spaces. Some reservoirs are hundreds of feet below the surface, while others are thousands of feet underground.


Credits: energy4me.org

How Does Oil Impact the Environment?

Products from oil (petroleum products) help us do many things. We use them to fuel our airplanes, cars, and trucks, to heat our homes, and to make products like medicines and plastics. Even though petroleum products make life easier — finding, producing, moving, and using them can harm the environment through air and water pollution.

Emissions and Byproducts Are Produced from Burning Petroleum Products

Petroleum products give off the following emissions when they are burned as fuel:

• Carbon dioxide (CO2)
• Carbon monoxide (CO)
• Sulfur dioxide (SO2)
• Nitrogen oxides (NOX) and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC)
• Particulate matter (PM)
• Lead and various air toxics such as benzene, formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, and 1,3-butadiene may be emitted when some types of petroleum are burned

Nearly all of these byproducts have negative impacts on the environment and human health:

• Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and a source of global warming.1
• SO2 causes acid rain, which is harmful to plants and to animals that live in water, and it worsens or causes respiratory illnesses and heart diseases, particularly in children and the elderly.
• NOX and VOCs contribute to ground-level ozone, which irritates and damages the lungs.
• PM results in hazy conditions in cities and scenic areas, and, along with ozone, contribute to asthma and chronic bronchitis, especially in children and the elderly. Very small, or “fine PM” is also thought to cause emphysema and lung cancer.
• Lead can have severe health impacts, especially for children, and air toxics are known or probable carcinogens.

Credits: environment-ecology.com

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5 Improvements in Offshore Oil Drilling

1. Improved Technology for Tracking and Controlling Released Oil

The massiveness of the Deepwater Horizon spill forced the oil industry to try just about every conceivable method for removing oil from the Gulf and its shoreline: using ships to skim oil from the surface, controlled burning of the oil slick in open water and the use of chemical dispersants to break up the massive cloud of oil underwater.

While there's been controversy about the effectiveness of that effort, it provided experience and knowledge that will be invaluable in the event of another such accident.

For example, oil industry officials have learned how to combine information from a variety of sources -- satellite and aerial photography, thermal imaging, radar, and infrared sensing, among others -- to detect the size of oil plumes and track their movement, which is essential to choosing the right method of cleaning up the mess. They've also built a new network of 26 radio towers outfitted with equipment for communicating with ships and planes, which will enable them to more easily coordinate response efforts to a future spill. In addition, the industry has beefed up its skimming capabilities, adding four modified barges known as "Big Gulp" skimmers, and setting up a system that can marshal nearly 6,000 local commercial fishing vessels to join in skimming operations. However, some of the other methods used to deal with the April 2010 spill remain controversial. While setting fire to oil removed as much or more of the spill as skimming, officials remain concerned about health risks from the resulting air pollution. The effectiveness of the approximately 2.5 million gallons of chemical dispersants used in the Gulf remains unclear, and there are nagging questions about the possible long-term health and environmental effects of the chemicals.

2. Improved Preparedness for Future Blowouts

After the Deepwater Horizon exploded in April 2010, engineers struggled to figure out how to contain and stop the spill. As oil industry officials later admitted during Congressional hearings, they were unprepared to deal with a disaster a mile underwater, and so the emergency team was forced to use tactics improvised on the fly, from trying to use robots to force the BOP's shear rams closed, to lowering a 100-ton containment dome over the leaking well. It took them until mid-July to succeed in installing a device called a capping stack, which finally stopped the uncontrolled flow of oil. After that, they were able to perform a "top kill," in which they pumped mud and cement down through the well to block it, and then drilled a relief well to handle the remaining oil.

If there's a plus side to the catastrophe, it's that if and when another such deepwater blowout occurs, we'll be much better prepared. To deal with the Deepwater Horizon, the oil industry had to quickly design and create an assortment of new equipment, including a fleet of vessels modified to collect the oil spill, and a special system of pipes for performing a top kill and diverting oil flow. Additionally, engineers had to figure out how to utilize underwater robots to perform complex construction tasks and had to become adept at using remote sensing technology to monitor conditions thousands of feet below on the Gulf floor.

Since the accident, BP has developed the Containment Disposal Project, a blueprint for how to use existing technology to respond quickly to oil spills based on the lessons of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Additionally, a group of major oil drillers -- ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Shell -- have formed the Marine Well Containment Company, a new outfit that aims to develop more advanced systems for controlling blowouts.

3. Robotic Subs on Every Oil Rig

In deepwater oil drilling, robots are the roughnecks who get the most difficult jobs done. Oil companies have been using remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) -- basically, robot submarines that can descend to depths where no human diver could survive -- for more than 30 years, to do everything from turn bolts to close valves. Today's state-of-the-art ROV is a $1 million, box-shaped steel craft the size of a small car, equipped with mechanical arms that can lift up to a ton in weight. It's outfitted with video cameras that transmit live images from the dark depths to pilots in the control rooms of surface vessels thousands of feet above. At a typical Gulf oil rig, it's not uncommon to find half a dozen ROVs and several vessels for support crews working on various tasks.

But in the event of a disaster like the Deepwater Horizon blowout, ROVs become even more crucial. An unprecedented 14 robots worked on the emergency effort simultaneously. Some attempted to close the BOP's shear rams, while others hooked up hoses and plumbing, installed oil recovery devices and built the relief well to stop the gusher. Still, others monitored the underwater plume of oil floating in the Gulf and gathered data on its effect on the Gulf's ecosystem, according to HuffPost.

The new federal regulations require that each oil rig have its own ROV, and crew members trained to operate it so they can rush into action immediately in an emergency. Additionally, the feds now require BOPs to be equipped so that, in the event, they fail to work, an ROV can take over and use its shear rams to shut off the pipe. To make sure that the robotic craft can work the BOP, the government is requiring more extensive testing of the machines, including having the ROV dive and operate shear rams at the sea bottom.

4. Improved Blowout Protectors

On a deepwater oil rig, perhaps the most crucial piece of safety equipment is a device called the blowout preventer, or BOP. The BOP's function is to prevent gas and oil from rushing too quickly up into the pipe inside the rig, which can cause the sort of explosion that destroyed the Deepwater Horizon. Imagine pinching a rubber hose with your fingers to stop the flow of water, and you've got the basic concept, except that your hand would have to be more than 50 feet (15 meters) in length and weigh more than 300 tons, according to Newsweek. Instead of fingers, the BOP is equipped with a powerful tool called a shear ram, which cuts into the pipe to shut off the flow of oil and gas. Unfortunately, in the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the BOP failed to do its job.

Federal regulators hope to prevent those problems the next time around by requiring better documentation that BOPs are in working order, and better training for crew members who operate them. As added insurance, they now mandate that BOPs be equipped with more powerful shears, capable of cutting through the outer pipe even when subjected to the highest water pressure expected at that depth.

In addition, BP has announced that it will exceed federal requirements on its rigs in the Gulf by equipping its BOPs with at least two shear rams instead of one, and will also keep an additional set of shear rams on each rig as a backup. Additionally, BP says that whenever one of its undersea BOPs is brought to the surface for testing and maintenance, it will bring in an independent inspector to verify that the work is being done properly

5. Sturdier Wells

One of the causes of the Deepwater Horizon disaster was the failure of cement sealing, which lined the hole bored in the Gulf floor and held the pipe that goes down through the rig in place. New federal regulations require that an engineer certify that the cementing can withstand the pressures to which it will be subjected. BP says that in the future, it will not take its construction contractors' word that its wells are strong enough to withstand the extreme pressures to which they'll be subjected. Instead, the company will require laboratory testing of the cement used in the portions of wells that'll be under the most stress. This testing will be done by either a BP engineer or an independent inspector.

Some experts think BP and other oil drillers should go even further to strengthen wells. For example, oil industry engineers told Technology Review that the design of the Deepwater Horizon's well was fatally flawed because of BP's decision to install a continuous set of threaded casting pipes -- essentially, one long pipe -- from the wellhead down to the bottom of the well. That method seals off the space between the pipe casing and the bore hole drilled for the well, making it difficult to detect leaks that develop during construction, and allows gas from the oil deposit more time to build up and percolate, raising the risk of an explosion. Instead, critics want to see oil wells built in pieces, with each section of pipe cemented in place before the next one is installed. That slow, cautious method would enable builders to watch for leaks that might develop while the concrete is set and to fix them more easily. Unfortunately, it also would be costly.

Credits: Patrick Kiger (HowStuffWorks)

Upstream vs Downstream Oil & Gas Operations

Upstream Oil and Gas Production

Upstream oil and gas production and operations identify deposits, drill wells, and recover raw materials from underground. They are also often called exploration and production companies. This sector also includes related services such as rig operations, feasibility studies, machinery rental, and extraction of chemical supply.

Many of those employed in this part of the industry include geologists, geophysicists, service rig operators, engineering firms, scientists, and seismic and drilling contractors. These people are able to locate and estimate reserves before any of the actual drilling activity starts.

Downstream Oil and Gas Production

The closer an oil and gas company is to supplying consumers with petroleum products, the further downstream it is said to be in the industry. Downstream operations are oil and gas processes that occur after the production phase to the point of sale.

This sector of the oil and gas industry—the final step in the production process—is represented by refiners of petroleum crude oil and natural gas processors, who bring usable products to end users and consumers. They also engage in the marketing and distribution of crude oil and natural gas products. Simply put, the downstream oil and gas market is anything that has to do with the post-production of crude oil and natural gas activities.

Many of the products that consumers use every day come directly from downstream production, including diesel, natural gas, gasoline, heating oil, lubricants, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and propane.

Source: Investopedia

Welcoming Dr. Rui He

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Advanced Drilling Techniques

Horizontal Drilling

Horizontal drilling starts with a vertical well that turns horizontal within the reservoir rock in order to expose more open hole to the oil. These horizontal "legs" can be over a mile long; the longer the exposure length, the more oil, and natural gas are drained and the faster it can flow. More oil and natural gas can be produced with fewer wells and less surface disturbance. However, the technology only can be employed in certain locations.

Multilateral Drilling

Sometimes oil and natural gas reserves are located in separate layers underground. Multilateral drilling allows producers to branch out from the main well to tap reserves at different depths. This dramatically increases production from a single well and reduces the number of wells drilled on the surface.

Extended Reach Drilling

Extended Reach Drilling allows producers to reach deposits that are great distances away from the drilling rig. This can help producers tap oil and natural gas deposits undersurface areas where a vertical well cannot be drilled, such as underdeveloped or environmentally sensitive areas. Wells can now reach out over 5 miles from the surface location. Offshore, the use of extended reach drilling allows producers to reach accumulations far from offshore platforms, minimizing the number of platforms needed to produce all the oil and gas. Onshore, dozens of wells can be drilled from a single location, reducing surface impacts.

Complex Path Drilling

Complex Path Drilling creates well paths with have multiple twists and turns to try to hit multiple accumulations from a single well location. Using this technology can be more cost effective and produce less waste and surface impacts than drilling multiple wells.

Source: API Energy