OpenLab Drilling

A drilling simulation infrastructure for research,

education and innovation

By Robert Ewald

Robert Ewald Jan Einar

Gravdal

Dan Sui Roman Shor

What, Why and How

What: An infrastructure for education, research and innovation within digital drilling.

How: Realistic simulation environment for different user groups, through several interfaces.

Why: To accelerate readiness of technology and to educate people in automated drilling.

OpenLab Drilling is on theNorwegian Roadmap for Research Infrastructure

Funding trough the National Financing Initiative for Research Infrastructure (INFRASTRUKTUR)

Motivation

• Interactive experience is a good teacher

• Wells have variable scale

• Expensive to test in operational environment

Examples of use

• Education

– Drilling courses, interactive online courses

– Transient simulation for bachelors and masters

• Research

– Projects which require realistic drilling data

– Work processes & HMI with new technology

• Innovation

– Develop, test and demonstrate technology

Collaboration & users

Colaboration in testing and deployment• University of Stavanger

– Project partner

– Testing, user experience

• University of Calgary

– Deployment for course use

Early test users

Development

Development

2016-2017

2017-2018

2017-2018

TECHNOLOGY

WORK PROCEDURES

HUMAN FACTORS

Development

• User Groups

– Students

– Educators

– Researchers/Engineers

• Interfaces

– Web based

– Local at IRIS

– On premise with customer

• Easy startup and configuration

Lower barrier of entry

• Appropriate defaults

• Deliberate selection of interactions

• Extensive validation

Capacity

• Up to 100 simultaneousdrilling simulations

• Choose between real time simulations or fast forward.

• Web API, accessible from e.g. Matlab

• Easy overview of your simulations

https://openlab.iris.no

More about the project

http://www.openlabdrilling.org/