Well planning and drilling is the final and often most expensive component of the E&P workflow. Increasing drilling risk and cost, along with the rising demand for hydrocarbons in the current market, make well-informed and accurate drilling more crucial than ever. With more than 20 years of experience in drilling application development, Paradigm’s software and data expertise provides advanced drilling solutions to challenging prospects.
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 digital subsurface asset management technologies engage integrated workflows to offer advanced solutions throughout the exploration and production value chain.