Wood Group – Enhanced decision making in offshore drilling

Submitted by Wood Group

Impact

Well specific operating guidelines (WSOG) set out the specific conditions and guidelines for drilling, based on detailed analysis of operational environment parameters. This is highly valuable in time sensitive operations, where there may be a drilling rig on standby awaiting the results from an analysis of a planned operation.

Based on detailed analysis of a considerable number of operational environment parameters, producing a WSOG can be labour intensive. A significant volume of data needs to be analysed and interpreted in order to produce actionable ‘decision-grade’ information. Wood Group tackled this by automating the process, improving the turnaround time for getting valuable information to the customer.

OptiView is an innovative new software solution for efficient generation, presentation and interpretation of key operational guidelines for offshore drilling operations; the tool is set to become an industry standard.

This interactive system can be licensed for the duration of a drilling program. It takes results generated by Wood Group’s drilling riser analysis software and collates them in a user friendly interface so results are quickly and easily filtered, presented and interpreted in an offshore operational environment.