Paradigm’s highly integrated, collaborative portfolio of well planning and drilling technologies, coupled with our expert strategic consulting capacity, help operating companies reduce drilling uncertainty and risk to facilitate quick and accurate well planning, to quantify wellbore accuracy, and to improve drilling safety.

Paradigm’s software solutions remain independent of traditional oilfield services, and our unbiased solutions help customers achieve their drilling objectives without conflict of interest.

Effective Well Planning

Develop successful, cost-effective well plans with shorter planning cycles, and incorporate subsurface interpretations in a shared 3D visualization environment.

• Pick targets from integration of seismic, geological, reservoir, and log data
• Create geometric- and engineering-constrained well plans
• Incorporate wellbore positional uncertainty models
• Project ahead and conduct sidetrack analyses

Improved Drilling Safety

Increase safety based on validated well plans created with visualization software tools. Incorporate pressure volumes to avoid geohazards, and design safe casing and hole sections to reduce risk.

• Conduct survey management and anti-collision analysis
• Ensure wellbore integrity with casing and mud design
• Extract pressure data along wellbore
• Avoid shallow gas and overpressure

Real-Time Support

Ensure accurate, real-time well placement and optimal drilling penetration rates to improve operational performance.

• Extract WITSML real-time data for wellbore position and logs
• Conduct petrophysical and model updates (geosteering)
• Maximize production with optimal wellbore placement in the reservoir

Engineering Analysis

Predict reservoir performance and make successful operational decisions with accurate well engineering and risk analysis. Reduce drilling risk and improve success rates by eliminating undrillable designs.

• Ensure wellbore drillability and avoid drilling equipment failure
• Manage mud design to avoid well control incidents and to support effective hole cleaning
• Secure well with effective casing and cement design
• Conduct fatigue analysis to predict mechanical failure

Paradigm solutions help users reduce drilling uncertainty and risk to facilitate quick and accurate well planning, quantify wellbore accuracy, and improve drilling safety. In addition, users can predict reservoir performance and make successful operational decisions with well engineering and risk analysis. Paradigm is the only provider of commercially-available drilling applications.

Well Planning

Our Well Planning applications enable teams of geoscientists and drilling engineers to plan, drill, and monitor wells in real-time and facilitate optimal wellbore positioning.

• GOCAD® Drilling Planner - designed for planning and editing stand-alone wells, drilling platforms, and sidetrack wells.
• SKUA® Drilling Planner - designed for planning and editing stand-alone wells, drilling platforms, and sidetrack wells.
• Sysdrill® Designer - allows quick and easy well design by providing automated well planning from a surface location to multiple targets.
• Sysdrill® Director® - an advanced directional well planning and survey management system.
• Sysdrill® DirectorGeo® - with Paradigm VoxelGeo®, provides a multidisciplinary solution that can reduce well planning cycle time, improve accuracy, and support safer well drilling.

Drilling Engineering

Drilling Engineering tools are designed to reduce drilling risk and cost by enabling users to identify and eliminate potential design problems with flexibility and accuracy.

• Sysdrill® Casing Design - allows the drilling engineer to safely design the minimum number of casing strings required to safely complete a well, which can reduce well capital costs.
• Sysdrill® Casing Wear - predicts internal casing wear for a number of drilling operations and derates casing thickness for burst and collapse calculations. Alternatively, a caliper log can be imported as percentage wear and used in the calculation.
• Sysdrill® Cementing - performs cementing optimization and analysis.
• Sysdrill® Critical Speed Analysis
• Sysdrill® Designer - allows quick and easy well design by providing automated well planning from a surface location to multiple targets.
• Sysdrill® Director® - an advanced directional well planning and survey management system.
• Sysdrill® DirectorGeo® - with Paradigm VoxelGeo®, provides a multidisciplinary solution that can reduce well planning cycle time, improve accuracy, and support safer well drilling.
• Sysdrill® Fatigue Analysis TH-Hill DS-1
• Sysdrill® Hydraulics - an optimization and analysis system used to model downhole circulating pressures during drilling, tripping, and running casing.
• Sysdrill® Temperature modeling
• Sysdrill® Torque and Drag - used to validate well designs and prevent loss of rig time by eliminating drilling string failure.
• Sysdrill® Well Control

Geosteering

Paradigm Geosteering applications integrate well planning, positional uncertainty modeling, anti-collision, and projection ahead of the bit, enabling faster, more informed, and more effective steering decisions.

• Geolog® Geosteer® - links Paradigm Geolog® with Paradigm Sysdrill® for the integration of well planning, positional uncertainty modeling, anti-collision, and projection ahead of the bit, helping you to make faster, more informed, and more effective steering decisions.