Over 30,000 offset wells drilled or completed by 180 Operators in 80 countries
| Letter from Helen | ||
I am really pleased to see that both the REDD (our drilling time estimation tool) and the RDI (index of relative drilling difficulty) are proving very popular additions to the website and are being regularly used by many participants.
Additionally, our video introduction to the website is being viewed frequently with very positive feedback from first time users. We are now working on another ‘how to’ video which will deal with the charting facilities.
Our data extraction service continues to expand. This allows participants to provide us with daily operations reports and end of well reports etc. from which we extract the relevant DPR and CPR data and enter it into the data input workbooks. We have recently provided this service ‘on-site’ for Bapetco in Egypt as well as at our offices for Cairn, Hess and Nexen.
In March we had a stand at the Amsterdam SPE conference (pictured right) and as a result of its success we aim to exhibit at future conferences, hopefully including the AOG conference to be held in Perth, Australia in March 2010. We are looking forward to meeting many of our participants in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region at that time as well, of course, as recruiting some new ones.
Although we do not have a presence this year at Offshore Europe in September, if you are going to be in town and would like to meet us, please do let me know and we can either get together at the conference venue or we can arrange for you to be transported to our offices.
We are delivering an introductory session at the SPE Forum in Cadiz on 20th September, the topic of which is “The battle to reduce drilling NPT”. If you will be there please stop by and say hello.
Due to our increasing workload we are currently recruiting for a Data Operations Manager, Commercial Associate and IT staff.
Our November Participant Meetings are fast approaching – please make a note in your diary of Tuesday 10 to Friday 13 November and be sure to book your room at The Marcliffe hotel.Now is also the time to start posting your ideas for changes and improvements to the Reviews on the website forum. Alternatively, you can drop me an email with your thoughts and I will do the posting for you. Some years ago our participants asked for time to be added to the annual meetings to allow them to share information on how they use the data to derive value. This year we have allocated one and a half days for this so, especially if your company has not previously done this, please could you consider sharing with others your experience and thoughts on this topic. Helen Rushmore |
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| Website improvements | ||
| Over the last months we have made a number of improvements to the website, most of these being suggestions made by participants, our thanks to Hess, Devon, BP and others. The ability to select wells from a map was requested by Seyi Adeleye of Shell at a previous annual participants meeting. | ||||
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Map selection tool A significant new feature in the Drilling Review section of the website allows you, after performing a search, to select wells directly from the map using a resizable circle or rectangle tool. We display all the wells where we have been provided with latitude and longitude data and therefore some ‘lite’ and ‘tight’ wells where this data has not been provided will not be displayed. The flag colour indicates the rig type and, where we do not know the rig type, such as for some tight wells, a white flag is shown. |
Website introduction video For new website users we have provided a 12 minute video tutorial covering all the primary website features. “I got all the information I needed. I watched the video prior to digging out the data so had no difficulties with navigation.” This video can also be viewed by non-participants – we anonymised the data shown – via a link in “The Databank” section of the public website. More website user feedback here. |
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List of Participants The List of Participants feature has now been extended to include the years 1989 to 1999. This will now allow you to view all of the Operators that have provided data since the Reviews began in 1989, with their well and completion numbers. Also, this will show you all the data we have for any country or any Group. Although the pre-2000 wells and completions will be listed, their data will continue to be available in Excel download format only. |
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Selecting wells, using the tick boxes You may already be aware that you can use tick boxes on the left hand side of the main data screen to select and remove wells from the search results. Sometimes you may want to select a group of several wells and it is slow to tick each well individually. You can now use the shift key to select a block of wells within any single page of wells. The shift key can also be used to de-select ticked wells. |
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Download chart data In response to a request from a participant we have added the ability to download the data which is charted, that is, the means, quartile values and other values which are plotted. On each chart there is now a "Show chart data" button which allows the data to be copied to the clipboard and then printed.
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Field and Data definitions Definitions of all the fields can now be accessed by clicking the column headings in the search results or clicking the field names in a well's "full data" pop-up or clicking the headings when the data is downloaded to Excel. The definitions of all the fields can be printed by going to the Data Definitions tab on the Main Menu where there are links to "Drilling web field definitions" and "Completions web field definitions". |
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Additional search options The Data Search Options screen now includes some extra data fields you can search on. In the DPR you can now specify “full”, “lite” or “tight” data; you can search by RDI value and, for wells drilled by more than one rig type, you can specify how you want the search to work. In the CPR, the options for intelligent wells and downhole monitoring have been improved. |
Data fields options The first time that the search results screen is displayed, a default set of fields is provided along with a selection of key performance indicators. Originally, once different fields had been specified from the Data Fields screen it was not possible to just show the default set again. The Data Fields screen now has an option to "include default fields". |
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| Well Abandonment Performance Review | ||
- How do my abandonments compare to others in terms of cost and time?
- Am I ‘over engineering’ my abandonment designs?
- Are others using more effective techniques to abandon wells?
- What technology are others using and what effect is this having on their cost and time performance?
- What types of failures are other Operators experiencing?
- What auditable data can I use to calculate future abandonment liabilities?
- Who should I work with to share best practices?
- What effects are regulatory differences between countries having on technology, cost and time?
- What technology trials are appropriate?
- What lessons have other Operators learned?
- What data do I use to plan and budget for ‘special’ abandonments?
- What range of savings are usually achieved in abandonment campaigns?
BP, Chevron, Hess, Lundin, Shell, Talisman, Total and Tullow are sharing data to help them to better budget, plan and then execute permanent well abandonments.
For more details please contact Beryl@RushmoreReviews.com or call + 44 (0)1224 251061.| Participation update | ||
Afren have renewed their participation in the Drilling Review on a global basis to 2012 providing data from Ghana, Ivory Coast and Nigeria.
Anadarko have renewed their participation in the Drilling Review to 2012 providing data this year from Algeria, Brazil, China, Qatar and Sierra Leone.
We welcome Cairn India back into the Drilling Review. Cairn have contracted retrospectively from 2001 and forward to 2010. Over 50 wells will be provided for 2009 with approximately another 200 for the previous years.
ConocoPhillips have renewed their participation in the Drilling Review on a global basis providing data this year from Australia, China, Indonesia, Norway, UK and Vietnam.
Det Norske have expanded their participation to now include the Completions Review retrospectively to 2000 and forward to 2012.
We welcome first time participant Endeavour in the Drilling Review retrospectively from 2005 providing data on UK wells.
Eni have renewed their participation in both the Drilling and Completions Reviews on a near global basis to 2011 providing data this year from Algeria, Angola, Australia, Brazil, Congo, Croatia, Egypt, Faroes, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Libya, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Russia, Tunisia, UK and deepwater GOM.
We welcome Hess back into both the DPR and CPR on a global basis contracting retrospectively from 2007 to match up with their last participation in 2006 and forward to 2010. Data is being provided for Algeria, Australia, Brazil, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Indonesia, Libya, Malaysia, Thailand, UK and deepwater GOM.
Fairfield have renewed their participation in the Drilling Review providing data from the UK.
We welcome Mariner back into the Drilling Review retrospectively from 2007 and providing data from deepwater GOM.
Murphy have renewed their participation in the Drilling Review on a global basis to 2011 providing data this year from Australia, Congo, Malaysia and deepwater GOM.
"Participation in the Drilling Performance Review since 2000 continues to provide our staff in Malaysia, deepwater Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere, with convenient access to high quality offset well data. We use this data to support our planning, target setting and budgeting processes as well as the identification of performance improvement opportunities and performance management reporting"
David Harris, Worldwide Drilling Manager, Murphy Oil, Houston.
We welcome a new participant Rocksource on a global basis in the Drilling Review retrospectively from 2007 providing data from US land wells.
Talisman Norway and UK have renewed their participation in both the Drilling and Completions Reviews to 2013.
We welcome another new participant, TAQA UK, into the 2009 Drilling Review.
Total have renewed their participation in the Drilling Review on a global basis to 2013 providing data this year from Angola, Argentina, Abu Dhabi, Brunei, Cameroon, Congo, France, Gabon, Indonesia, Libya, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Qatar, Russia, Pakistan, Russia, UK and Yemen.| Data Input Training | ||
There are places available on the DPR and CPR data input training courses being run in Aberdeen on the 29 September to 1 October.
Although an optional session is provided on website navigation and charting facilities this is not a course on how to analyse the data, but simply on how to best to enter it into the data input workbooks.
For more details please email or call Ms. Gillian Thain on + 44 (0)1224 251062.| Annual meetings | ||
This year’s meetings are being held from Tuesday 10 to Friday 13 November at the Marcliffe at Pitfodels Hotel in Aberdeen. Attendance is free of charge for participants and prospective participants.
The first day and a half is for participants to share information on how they use the data to help improve planning, performance and for any other applications.
The afternoon of the second day will be devoted to examining proposals to change the terms and conditions of participation and data requirements of the Well Abandonment Review.
The third day is to accept or reject proposals (posted beforehand on the website forum) to make changes to the rules of participation of both the DPR and CPR as well as changes to the data collected for the Drilling Review.
The final day will consider proposals for changes to data in the Completions Review.
Hotel rooms are often difficult to obtain at short notice in Aberdeen so, as usual, we would suggest that you book your rooms at the Marcliffe as soon as possible quoting the “Rushmore Conference” in order to obtain a discounted rate. You can contact the hotel on + 44 (0) 1224 861000 or via their website.
A traditional Scottish evening Reception and Dinner will be held on the evening of Wednesday 11 at Drumtochty Castle (pictured).
If you would like to share how you have gained value or improved performance as a result of utilising the Reviews please do contact Helen.| Fun on the River Dee | ||
The Rushmore Row-Dee-O cowboys and cowgirls in a fund-raising boat race on the River Dee. Although we did not win, we were - most of the time - all pulling in the same direction!
| Landmark, IDS and Peloton | ||
IDS, Landmark and Peloton advertise automated Rushmore Reviews data extraction routines for DataNet, OpenWells and WellView. The use of these routines will reduce the time required for data submission.
