Meana Petro
DR-13FoundationalWave 1AI

NPT Root-Cause & Offset Well Lookup

In one sentence

Reads every daily drilling report the operator has ever filed and answers, in seconds, what went wrong at this depth in this field before.

The problem

Twenty years of daily drilling reports and end-of-well reports sit in folders as scanned PDFs and Word files. Answering "have we had losses in this formation before" takes an engineer a day of reading, so the question mostly does not get asked.

The result is that the same NPT event repeats across a campaign, and the cost is booked as if it were unforeseeable.

How it works

Reports are ingested through the OCR pipeline, then NPT events are extracted into a structured record: depth, duration, category, sub-category and narrative. Categories are normalised to a single field taxonomy rather than the free text each crew used.

A retrieval interface answers natural-language questions in Persian, Arabic, English or Spanish, and every answer cites the report and page it came from.

Data required

  • Daily drilling reports and end-of-well reports, scanned or digital
  • Well headers with coordinates, spud dates and casing schemes
  • Existing NPT coding standard if the operator has one
  • Formation tops so events can be placed stratigraphically

What you get

  • Structured NPT database with depth, duration, category and source citation
  • Field NPT atlas: cost and frequency by formation, by category, by rig
  • Question-and-answer interface over the report archive with page-level citations

What it cannot do

Extraction quality tracks scan quality. Handwritten remarks columns, which are common in older reports and often contain the most useful detail, are extracted at materially lower accuracy than typed text, and those records are flagged as low-confidence rather than silently included.

Every capability page states a real limitation. If a vendor cannot tell you where their product stops, you are not being told the truth about where it starts.

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