Dynamic Well Control

Make no mistakes

Making mistakes in a well control situation can be dangerous and can result in significant cost additions to any well project. Should things go terribly wrong, an uncontrolled blowout situation may be the consequence.

Although a kick incident rarely leads to a full blowout situation, preventing the incident from occurring in the first place is a primary goal in all drilling operations. Even if a kick is perfectly handled, it will increase the well construction cost due to increased non-productive time.

Well control
Using an accurate dynamic kick simulator in advanced well design is important in order to reduce kick frequency. The drilling operations are moving towards deeper water, higher pressures and temperatures, longer and more complex well paths and complex reservoirs with a combination of depleted and high pressure zones. It is important to evaluate the risk in order to reach challenging drilling objectives.

More resources must be spent in planning, as well as in operational design and evaluation. Advanced well control software is a valuable tool in this process.

The Dynamic Well Control application in Drillbench is a unique tool for engineering, decision making support and risk evaluation. Used by drilling engineers worldwide, Drillbench achieves the best well control available.

The software is based on the R&D activities in multiphase flow modeling, laboratory and full-scale experiments, and extensive verification. The simulator uses advanced mathematical models to simulate the flow process in the well. It handles a variety of wells, including many special and complex conditions.