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    This document discusses remote directional drilling and logging in the Arctic. It describes the challenges of operating in the Arctic environment including extreme temperatures and isolation. It then outlines how remote operations were implemented in Russia through remote operations centers. The tasks of engineers were divided into physical and mechanical tasks, with physical tasks handled on-site and mechanical tasks handled remotely. This allowed for reduced crew sizes at rig sites while maintaining monitoring and control from remote locations. However, it also increased the risks of communication issues and required remotely located engineers to monitor multiple rigs simultaneously.

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    Remote Directional Drilling

    and Logging in the Arctic


    Drilling Technology and Rigs

    January,16th 2019
    Table of Contents
    Arctic Weather and Polar Environment

    Challenges to Face

    Remote Directional Drilling and Logging


    in the Arctic as a Drilling Technology

    Advantages and Disadvantages


    Arctic Weather and the Polar
    Environment

    Summer Temperatures
    range from about −10
    to +10 °C (14 to 50 °F),
    with some land areas
    occasionally exceeding
    30 °C (86 °F)
    Image 1: Arctic Environment
    Source: google Images
    3
    Image 2: The Arctic
    Source: google Images
    MAPA

    4
    Challenges to Face
    Challenges of Remote Operations
    Key Elements:
    • People: Select the right profiles and competency levels

    • Infrastructure: should be equipped with a standard kit that provides a


    reliable fit-for-purpose communication channel, ensuring continuous
    remote control.

    • Processes: hazard analysis and risk-control documents, responsible,


    accountable, consulted, and informed charts; escalation matrices;
    emergency response plans; remote operation standards and remote
    operation implementacion guidelines. 5
    Challenges to Face
    Challenges of the Arctic
    • Work in such an extreme environment, temperature is only one of the
    reasons these enviroments are seen as harsh.

    • These environments also experience cyclic opportunities for operations

    • The environment is isolated from proper infrastructure, and it can take


    twice as many employees to perform a given task.

    • The Cost of special equipment, the cost of transport, and the cost of
    infrastructure
    6
    Remote Directional Drilling
    and Logging in the Arctic
    • Remote- Operations History In Russia
    2009 : Two Remote Operations Centers which supports Russia’s land
    Operations were set up in Tyumen and Irkutsk.

    4
    3 5
    Images 3 and 4: Tyumen and Irkutsk, respectively.
    Image 5: Russian Land ROC
    7
    Remote Directional Drilling
    and Logging in the Arctic
    The Tasks performed by the engineers at the
    rigsite were divided in two types:

    1. Physical: are necesary only when donwhole


    tools are above the rotatory table.

    2. Mechanical : the main tasks for engineers are


    in the logging unit, monitoring Drilling
    parameters, making logs, generating reports,
    and controlling trajectory.
    Image 6: Arctic Rig

    Source: Google Image 8


    Remote Directional Drilling
    and Logging in the Arctic
    To manage the risk, operations were moved to the office from the rigsite
    in distinc steps :
    • Moving MWD operations: the roles of wellsite engineer and remote-operations engineer were
    split.
    • The MWD engineer at the rigsite was now responsible for physical equipment preparations,
    1 surface equipment instalation and the weekly inventory check.
    • When all is ready Remote- operations engineer begins working from the office.

    • The Bottomhole assembly is made up and run below the rotatory table
    2
    • The engineer monitors data quality and tool performace, reviews and accepts surveys from
    downhole telemetry tools, and generates real-time logs to be sent to the client.
    • The rigsite engineer can monitor surface equipment and help troubleshoot issues when
    3 necessary.

    9
    Advantages Disadvantages
    The Crew size at the rig could be The processes needs engineers with
    reduced to two engineers the ability to monitor operations
    remotely and control the operations
    The remote engineers no longer for more than one rig at the same
    needs to spend time on the rig floor time . It means that hiring this staff
    generates a high additional cost.
    The relocation reduce health, safety,
    and environment risks exposure and
    also the cost of personnel The relocation increase the risk of
    transportation miscommunication because parts of
    the field team are now thousands of
    kilometers apart.
    Remote Operations are being
    pursued as a reliable alternative when Most Operators requiere oversight of
    the field has huge potential to bring the directional – drilling engineer to
    value avoid legal problems
    10
    Bibliographic Reference
    • Alexey Stepnov, Anton Madyashov and Juan Raul Elizondo
    Gonzalez (2016) paper SPE178873. Special Publications Editor
    Adam Wilson in JPT February 2017. A Close Look at Shales´s
    Comeback. Page 50.

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