DrilWel Automated Drilling System

DRILLING AUTOMATION – OVER 15 YEARS EXPERINCE

Wildcat has pioneered the drilling automation field since more than 15 years, covering service centres in the MENA region providing 24/7 prompt technical support, on the hands of highly professional service team achieving impressive track record .

Our Automated Drilling Service aims to ensure that rigs operate at peak performance towards a new level of automation and digital drilling to the existing drilling operations and ultimately achieving drilling efficiency and more productive wells, reducing NPT, maximizing daily drilled footage and cutting down well cost.

ELECTONC AUTO DRILLER

The DriLWeL has unique features, which are designed and proven in thousands of wells to produce fast and optimum ROP while protecting surface equipment and drill string components from harmful vibrations and stick slip, driving the bits to their best manufactured efficiency, enhancing tool face control on the fly without stopping to correct course thus reducing NPT and drilling cost by a significant margin. DriLWeL has a patented & unique Time Drill functionality & Control Algorithm making it the only system in the market capable of handling your drilling needs, providing you with full reliability and safety on the rig floor; thanks to its ability to ease the run of mud motors, RSS systems, and PDC bits / rock bits by using the following drilling modes: WOB mode, Delta-P mode, Time-Drilling mode, ROP mode, High Pressure alarm and Driller Percentage . Major Benefits of the DriLWeL

Can perform most critical operations (side tacking, milling, coring ...) with highest accuracy level through its patented Time Drilling Mode

Reduces Drill string vibration (through Driller Percentage mode, which helps drilling in the Sweet Spot)

Reduces Hole Deviation Problems

Provides constant & consistent control of ROP (ROP Mode).

Increases Percentage of bit time on bottom: (Sweet Spot drilling).

Extends Bit life – fewer bits to drill section

Extends BHA life – RSS, mud motors and MWD’s which leads to less tripping

Improves ROP (constant applying of W.O.B all the time)

Controls Differential Pressure on Bit

Smoother in gauge hole – logging and cementing gains

Lowers overall cost of the well

Enables overall optimization of drilling performance.

PNEUMATIC AUTO DRILLER

The Wildcat Pneumatic Automated DriLWeL System is a Multi-parameter System, Patented in 1993, it controls & adjusts the rig brakes using any or combination of three controllers: WOB, Delta P and ROP, WADS is currently being utilized in around 100 rigs in the Middle East and about 1,200 rigs worldwide.

We would like to emphasize that Wildcat does not promote the Wildcat Pneumatic Automated DriLWeL System as an instrument for ROP improvement only; its actual benefits far exceed its cost when taking into consideration;

•Longer bit lives, less bit trips

•Longer motor working hours, less trips for motor failures

•Elimination of motor stalling

•Steadier RPM at the bit due to constant Delta-P delivered to optimize the mud motor

•Better hole cleaning due to uniform size cuttings and uniform slip velocity

•Less vibration and shock waves at the bit and in the drill string, and on the rig floor

•Reduced chunk drilling and slip phenomena

•Faster kick offs due to locking the tool face

•Smoother well profile due to precise transmission of weight on bit, consistently and relentlessly. Your directional engineer will just love it!

•Also, the physical fatigue to the driller is eliminated giving better conditions for safety and more tidiness on the rig floor

The Wildcat Automated DriLWeL System will not change BHA performance during shift changes either

IN THIS EXAMPLE, THE AUTO-DRIL ALLOWED THE DRILLER TO:

  • Inject 15‐20 % more energy into the BHA while drilling

  • Minimize the risks of triggering vibrations

  • Help preserve motor life (less torque variations)

SMART DRILL NAVIGATOR SUMMARY

  • The most versatile automatic driller in the industry.

  • Record footage days, associated record bit runs

  • Reduced drilling costs

  • Extended BHA life

  • Reduced down hole motor and MWD failures .

  • Track record of reducing drilling time by at least 10%.

  • Drilling optimization through multiple control options.

WOB Mode

  • High Pressure Alarm

  • Driller Percentage

  • Differential Pressure Mode

  • ROP Mode

  • Time Drilling Mode


The DriLWeL has unique features, which are designed and proven in thousands of wells to produce fast and optimum ROP while protecting surface equipment and drill string components from harmful vibrations and stick slip, driving the bits to their best manufactured efficiency, enhancing tool face control on the fly without stopping to correct course thus reducing NPT and drilling cost by a significant margin.

DriLWeL has a patented & unique Time Drill functionality & Control Algorithm making it the only system in the market capable of handling your drilling needs, providing you with full reliability and safety on the rig floor; thanks to its ability to ease the run of mud motors, RSS systems, and PDC bits / rock bits by using the following drilling modes: WOB mode, Delta-P mode, Time-Drilling mode, ROP mode, High Pressure alarm and Driller Percentage .

Major Benefits of the DriLWeL

§ Can perform most critical operations (side tacking, milling, coring ...) with highest accuracy level through its patented Time Drilling Mode

§ Reduces Drill string vibration (through Driller Percentage mode, which helps drilling in the Sweet Spot)

§ Reduces Hole Deviation Problems

§ Provides constant & consistent control of ROP (ROP Mode).

§ Increases Percentage of bit time on bottom: (Sweet Spot drilling).

§Extends Bit life – fewer bits to drill section

§Extends BHA life – RSS, mud motors and MWD’s which leads to less tripping

§ Improves ROP (constant applying of W.O.B all the time)

§ Controls Differential Pressure on Bit

§ Smoother in gauge hole – logging and cementing gains

§ Lowers overall cost of the well

Enables overall optimization of drilling performance.

DRILWEL Automated Drilling System Automatic Control and optimization of the Drilling Operation

Tags: X DriLWeL controlling multiple parameters continuously and automatically

DRILLING AUTOMATION – OVER 15 YEARS EXPERINCE

Wildcat has pioneered the drilling automation field since more than 15 years, covering service centres in the MENA region providing 24/7 prompt technical support, on the hands of highly professional service team achieving impressive track record .Our Automated Drilling Service aims to ensure that rigs operate at peak performance towards a new level of automation and digital drilling to the existing drilling operations and ultimately achieving drilling efficiency and more productive wells, reducing NPT, maximizing daily drilled footage and cutting down well cost.

DriLWeL ADS is the first stand-alone patented electronic Automated Drilling system with specific features to handle all drilling activities; it produces optimum ROP while protecting surface and down-hole equipment. It improves bit and BHA performance, and reduces well cost and overall AFE!

With its patented Time Drill functionality & Control Algorithm, the DriLWeL is the only machine capable of handling every drilling operation, providing reliability and safety on the rig floor while optimizing mud motor runs, RSS systems, and PDC bits /rock bits performance – using the following drilling modes:

  • WOB mode,

  • Delta-P mode,

  • Time-Drilling mode,

  • ROP mode,

  • High Pressure alarm and Driller Percentage

Major Benefits of the DriLWeL ADS:

  • Reducing reliance on human driller so he is freed to focus on the rig floor activities and the HSE.

  • Reducing work area incidents as the driller remains more attentive and less stressed.

  • Providing many alarms for safety as low pump pressure alarm, high pump pressure alarm, and maximum WOB alarm.

  • Protecting the drilling equipment as Drawworks, Top Drive, crown block….etc.

  • Providing Smoother in-gauge wellbore for smoother POOH and easier casing runs.

  • Extending Bit life – fewer bits to drill section.

  • Extending BHA life – less tripping due to premature failures.

  • Providing consistent and precise drilling in both vertical and horizontal sections.

  • Providing consistent & Precise transmission of WOB for more gauges wellbores.

  • Providing consistent control of tool face for reducing NPT during Directional Drilling.

  • Reducing uncertainty about crew and equipment performance by reducing dependence on the human effort.

  • Achieving Overall optimization of drilling performance.

  • Lowering overall cost of the well.