Meana Petro
SR-10FrontierWave 3AIDomain

Development Well Placement

In one sentence

Searches for where the next wells should go, with drilling feasibility and surface constraints inside the search rather than applied afterwards.

The problem

Well locations are proposed from a map of remaining oil, then sent to drilling, which rejects half of them on dogleg, anti-collision or surface access grounds. The loop takes months.

How it works

A constrained optimiser searches trajectory and completion design against forecast recovery, with anti-collision, dogleg severity, surface pad availability and rig capability as hard constraints inside the objective. Candidate locations are returned only if they are drillable.

Data required

  • History-matched model ensemble with remaining-oil maps
  • Existing well trajectories and pad locations
  • Rig capability envelope and directional design limits
  • Surface constraints: terrain, access, land and environmental exclusions

What you get

  • Ranked drillable candidate locations with trajectory and forecast
  • Value-of-information ranking to sequence the campaign
  • Direct export into the anti-collision check

What it cannot do

Forecast value carries the full uncertainty of the underlying model ensemble, which in a field with sparse recent data is wide enough that the ranking between the top candidates is not statistically meaningful. The tool is honest about when its first and fifth choices are indistinguishable, which is often.

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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