Committee Mission Statement:

“To improve safety and efficiency through sound operating procedures, design of automated systems and standardizing automation. Issues of note include control philosophy, communication protocol between equipment, competency, and comprehensive automation of the complete drilling process, integrating surface and downhole equipment, including completion systems.”

Reliability & Guidelines Subcommittee

Drilling Control Systems Subcommittee

Future Technology Subcommittee

Reliability & Guidelines Subcommittee

Robert Urbanowski, Precision Drilling Oilfield Services Corporation - Vice Chairman


Reliability Mission Statement

To reduce the barriers to safety and process improvement and develop a community commitment to the successful introduction of reliable new technology.

Reliability Goals

To develop industry accepted standard tools to highlight the issues surrounding reliability with technologies that have entered or are entering the market.

Phase One – Top Drives
Phase Two – Pipehandling
Phase Three – Mux Systems
Phase Four – Control Systems
Phase Five – Downhole to Surface Communications
Phase Six – Automation by Process – Drilling – Tripping – Stand-Building – Mud Mixing – Solids Control – Mud Pulse Management…

Reliability Objectives

Introduce a mechanism for feedback to suppliers to address at their discretion on critical systems and new technology.

Increase the introduction reliability levels of new technology.

Reduce the impact of new technology on the overall NPT of drilling wells.

Develop a culture of trust, acceptance and welcoming of new technology within the drilling community.

Identify and translate systems in to the IADC Maintenance Subcommittee.

Guidelines Mission Statement

To educate and equip decision makers for successful selection and integration of new technology.

Guidelines Goals

To create dynamic tools to help Operators and Drillers select the appropriate tools based on current state of the art data on performance and applications.

Phase One – Mechanization to Automation Decision Matrix
Phase Two – Available Training Lists For Advanced Rig Technology
Phase Three – Simulator Values and Application Learning and Education

Guidelines Objectives

To put tools in the hands of decision makers that will equip them and educate them to reap the true benefits of new technology.

Highlight opportunities for the IADC Training and Safety Committees to develop Best Practices.

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Drilling Control Systems Subcommittee

Terry Loftis, Transocean - Vice Chairman

Mission Statement

Provide information and guidelines to improve safety and reliability of the interfaces between human and machine, and between multiple control systems installed on offshore and onshore drilling facilities.

Goals

Control Motions:

• Phase I - Develop a critical safety interface list for a driller.

• Phase II - Gather data for each supplier against current field populations.

• Phase III - Based on findings, propose and publish an industry guideline for future safety critical applications.

Software Interface:

• Phase I - Identify and document the current supplier's methods of integrating and communicating on rigs.

• Phase II - Develop a matrix of issues and challenges drillers are facing.

• Phase III - Publish guidelines to the industry advising on methods that have proven successful for integrating and communicating between systems.

Objectives

To eliminate the risk associated with variations in human machine interface for critical drilling controls.  To provide a preferred method for integrating tools in a rig system with minimal impact to operations and a focused zero safety impact.

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Future Technology Subcommittee

Dustin Torkay, Seawell Americas Inc - Vice Chairman


Mission Statement

Become a leading industry with a high success and rapid technology adoption rate.

Goals

Develop a series of learning’s on past experience and a method for developing an industry needs communicating mechanism going forward.

Phase One – Identify what we can learn from our past success and failures in products and systems introduction.
Phase Two – Develop a mechanism for identifying future needs on an ongoing basis.
Phase Three – Showcase through IADC Drilling Contractor promising and successful technologies both from within the drilling industry and outside it.

Objectives

Educate the industry on the mix of aligning factors that create successful introduction of new technology and a method for providing Drillers a view of Operators challenges and of providing vendors the view of operator and driller needs in the future.
 

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