A Real-Time Decision Support System for High Cost Oil Well Drilling Operations

DrillEdge utilizes case-based reasoning with temporal representations on streaming realtime data, pattern matching, and agent systems to predict problems and give advice on how to mitigate the problems. Decisions are supported through analyzing real-time data streams of parameters measured both on the surface and downhole when drilling. The real-time analysis identifies symptoms of problems, which are combined to provide best practices for how to handle the current situation. Verdande Technology has developed DrillEdge to reduce the cost and decrease the probability of failures in oil well drilling. Currently, DrillEdge continuously monitors around 30 oil well drilling operations in parallel for several customers and has been deployed commercially for two years.