Predicción de Estabilidad del Pozo
Predicts the mud weight window that keeps the hole open — not too light and it caves, not too heavy and it fractures.
Recommends the mud formulation for the next section based on what worked in comparable sections, and what it cost.
Mud programmes are inherited from the last well and adjusted by habit. The link between a rheology choice and the hole-cleaning or stability outcome is rarely quantified after the fact.
Fluid is one of the three largest line items on a well AFE, and additive spend is where most of the waste sits.
A case-based model matches the planned section against historical sections by lithology, angle, hole size and temperature, then ranks the fluid systems used by their measured outcome: stability events, hole-cleaning index, dilution volume and total additive cost.
Recommendations are presented as a comparison table with the evidence behind each, not as a single prescriptive answer.
The model is only as good as the mud reporting discipline in the archive, which in most operators is weak: additive volumes are frequently reported to the nearest sack and dilution is under-recorded. We assess the archive before committing to a confidence level, and in several fields the honest answer has been that the data does not support this capability yet.
Cada página de capacidad declara una limitación real. Si un proveedor no puede decirle dónde termina su producto, no le están diciendo la verdad sobre dónde empieza.
Predicts the mud weight window that keeps the hole open — not too light and it caves, not too heavy and it fractures.
Compares what the string should weigh and how hard the pumps should work against what is actually measured, and flags the gap.
Rate of penetration is how fast the bit makes hole. This recommends the weight and rotation speed that make it fastest without wrecking the bit.
A kick is formation fluid entering the wellbore. Left unchecked it becomes a blowout. This watches eleven sensor streams and warns the crew minutes earlier than pit-volume alarms do.
Warns that the string is becoming hard to move, typically twenty to sixty minutes before it stops moving at all.