Pore Pressure While Drilling
Drilling operations are very complex, time- and money consuming. Numerous problems can be encountered while drilling, and some of them could be easily avoided.
The most severe drilling problems include kicks, total or partial static and dynamic mud losses, formation ballooning, wellbore collapse, fault reactivation, pack-offs, high connection/swab gases, tight spots, increased drag and torque, H2S - all of which may compromise safety and result in delays or failure of the well completion.
Real-time monitoring of the drilling and gas parameters allow pinpointing the pressure state of the formation and help in selecting proper mud weight which can help in successful drill-out of the well and achievement of the well objectives.
We are an experienced team of geologists with extensive experience in pore-pressure monitoring from numerous basins in the world, including frontier basins in West Africa and South America.
We are using sophisticated methods for understanding the pressure and the geomechanical state of the wellbore.
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DXC and SME analysis
Gas data analysis
Eaton, Millers, Bowen, Zhang PPg analysis
LOT, XLOT and FIT analysis
MDT/XPTS/DST analysis
Drilling performance analysis