US 12,031,423 B2
Well construction optimization techniques
Paulo Alves Braz, Rio de Janeiro (BR); Roger David Marin Martinez, Ciudad de Buenos Aires (AR); Gabriel Tirado, Houston, TX (US); Marcelo Gomes de Souza, Rio de Janeiro (BR); Damian Martinez, Bogota (BR); Henrique de Azevedo Araujo, Rio de Janeiro (BR); and Cristian Fattori, Houston, TX (US)
Assigned to Landmark Graphics Corporation, Houston, TX (US)
Filed by Landmark Graphics Corporation, Houston, TX (US)
Filed on Aug. 17, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/404,446.
Prior Publication US 2023/0058683 A1, Feb. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/0639 (2023.01); E21B 44/00 (2006.01); G06Q 50/02 (2024.01)
CPC E21B 44/00 (2013.01) [G06Q 10/0639 (2013.01); G06Q 50/02 (2013.01); E21B 2200/20 (2020.05); E21B 2200/22 (2020.05)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
acquiring, by a computing system, a corpus of historical well construction data associated with a set of historical wells;
developing, by a retro-analysis module of the computing system and using the corpus of historical well construction data, a well construction model that includes an estimated technical limit timeline for a well construction operation;
acquiring, by a rig activity detection module of the computing system, real-time well construction data during the well construction operation;
applying, by the computing system and by using the rig activity detection module to analyze the real-time well construction data with respect to the estimated technical limit timeline, the well construction model to the real-time well construction data, applying the well construction model to the real-time well construction data comprising providing the well construction model and the real-time well construction data as input into a process mining algorithm to (i) identify well construction inefficiencies and (ii) generate first recommendations for changes to a well construction parameter;
generating, by an analysis module of the computing system, second recommendations for changes to the well construction parameter by (i) identifying a deviation between the estimated technical limit timeline and the real-time well construction data and (ii) identifying one or more remedial actions to take in response to the deviation; and
outputting a command to update the well construction operation using at least one of the first recommendations for changes to the well construction parameter or the second recommendations for the changes to the well construction parameter.