BCCH: Company General Use

EXAMPLE REFLECTION – VISUALISATION

Challenge & Selection:

The tool which we used is called tool of Visualization, which we have used for monitoring of Real Time  Drilling parameters to have a common understanding of the issues among the various Stakeholders e.g.  Rig Forman, Drilling engineer, Drilling Superintendent while drilling for Oil and gas wells. We always use  this methodology with our Stakeholders, who belongs to different department / division such as Gas  Drilling Department, Oil Drilling Department, and Water Drilling Department. when we are monitoring  their wells to avoid the Nonproductive time (NPT) or Invisible Lost Time (ILT). Apart when they are  performing the trial test for the innovative tool and technology for Oil & gas Drilling Operations.

We always invite Stakeholder for a discussion / pre spud meeting prior to drilling oil and gas wells in the  field. To start drilling a well on a paper, to have the better visualization of the 1st plan, 2nd game plan if  first go wrong, contingency arrangement, followed with group discussion, sharing previous lesson learnt  if any, followed by question and answer session. To have better clarity pertaining to Scope of work, and  the Key parameters, Formation which we need especial attention while drilling particular zone. To better  understand the pain points of our customers and the area were we can further improve.

Applications:

I start the process, by looking on the data for the offset oil & gas well which we have drilled previously  near to the radius zone, to have better understanding of the Stratigraphic column / Formation sequence,  reservoir heterogeneity or formation discontinuity. Apart we look for the Standard Operatizing procedure  (SOP), Best practices, Industry recommended practices, Training documents if any. If the data or material  is not available when we are Drilling Wild Cat well / Exploratory well we used to conduct the interview /  discussion with the Subject matter expert  / Filed expert who act as the main focal point for the subject  well.

As per the Situation we identify all the Stake holders and team members, How can they participate and  bring the value / create the value by effectively, safely and time bound drilling that result in Cost Effective  completion of wells, and WIN – WIN for all, to have sustainable process.

For this purpose we create a group of 4-5 persons, with different Stakeholders in which people are from  different field of expertise e.g. Drilling, Geological, Mud Engineering, Reservoir, Mechanical, Electrical,  electronic etc. which have different areas of interest / services.

Each group have Separate paper board that they can write directly or make the use of sticky notes to put  their comments.

We give them 3-4 question to answer at a time, Such as 1) what are the Key parameters we have not paid  attention while drilling the previous well, which are missing at the Real time Log while monitoring the  wells. 2) What parameters and scale you would like to display in Real Time Plots to have better  visualization and identifying the deviation from the normal trends. 3) What different we can do /  implement this time to avoid the issues which we have faced last time. We provide those 20 – 25 minutes  to discuss the question and note down the points to be displayed in the graphic.

BCCH: Company General Use

Afterwards we have answer for all the three question from the different groups and the ask them to put  on the board. Then look for the similarity of the answer, followed by further group discussion additional  points noted for the Real Time Display.

Once the discussion is over we create the master copy of the template and create the new display with  new look from the group discussion, then formulate a revised display which integrates their feedback and  anticipated changes that which the group agrees.

Insight & Approach:

The lesson learned from conducting this forum with multiple experts especially the revised graphic display  after incorporating their feedback is much more important while implementing and understanding of the  problem what they are working to solve it. It gives them sense of ownership, more involvement because  they were involve from the beginning of the project. The display help them to understand the issues  thoroughly and simultaneously help them to identify the causative factor and to further drill down to the  root cause of the issues.

Which help them to create the display from the scratch based on the suitability and as per requirement.

They were able to quickly identify the gap, which need to be bridge immediately to avoid Non Productive  Time / Individual Loss Time.

This also help them to prepare the strong contingency plan with the current / past data.

Meanwhile, I found the most valuable aspect is the collaboration with the different discipline to address  the issues with the same goal. Subsequently I will priorities the visualization work as the initiating point  for the sequence of design thinking. Afterwards the revised display will be incorporated based on their  feedback, which will assist as a reference tool throughout the drilling process of the well.

