Casing Drive System drives safety, efficiency

摘要

The growth of a less experienced workforce in the field makes it imperative to increase safety by reducing or eliminating exposure to risks. The cyclical nature of the business has stripped depth from the industry's workforce and has resulted in competition for personnel, felt keenly in field operations. The combination of deeper gas drilling and the acceleration of less skilled workforce into the field services has the potential to produce "train wrecks" if care is not taken to manage this situation. Running casing is an area of drilling operations where the needs and benefits of automation are significant. Running casing is personnel, equipment and performance intensive and is mission critical for wells. The technology and practices of running pipe downhole has changed little in the last half century. Automation of pipe running has progressed to a greater degree in offshore operations, perhaps best illustrated in North Sea operations and later generation deepwater drilling vessels, but for the most part automation techniques are only more recently migrating into land based operations.