| | NOVEMBER 20188E ERGYTech ReviewIn the recent years there is a tremendous push for drilling automation and the drilling industry is trying to move from rig mechanization to partial rig automation. While the industry moves toward an automated drilling system, not only has comprehensive 360° engineering optimization become extremely important, but the fusion of data analytics into the system has also become increasingly essential. Even though it might sound like a futurist's dream, the exponential technologies in other industries provide a catalyst toward accelerating the realization of such a drilling system. With many technologies advancing at the same time, the future is to create the layered evolution of the advisory system to rig controls and get into position for the final automation, even if the driller is on the rig floor, at which point the auto driller should go beyond conditional automation and drill autonomously. Geometric models coupled with mechanical models are important not only to describing the system but also to understanding downhole drilling automation and providing effective simulations to enable dynamic motions under different modalities. A new paradigm is evolving while the drilling system learns, unlearns, and relearns and while the driller learns how to drill a well on a drillerless drilling rig.Journey to a Cyber Drilling System: Threading Drilling Engineers,Drillers, and Computers into OneIN MYopinionThe brain is wired to think linearly when technology is growing exponentially. Advanced technology can revolutionize the drilling process with robotics, automation, artificial intelligence, and deep cognitive scienceDr. Robello Samuel, Chief Technical Advisor and Halliburton Technology Fellow, HalliburtonEffective methods are absolutely necessary to blend the unique decision-making strengths of humans and machines. Computational models are necessary to thread the machines to efficiently infer the mental state of human teammates, thereby collaborating with people by richer, more flexible methods. We think of history and space in straight lines and tend to project advancements occurring in 10 years by looking back to what has occurred during the previous 10 years and try to extrapolate it in a linear fashion. The brain is wired to think linearly when technology is growing exponentially.Figure 1 shows one line representing calculations per second per USD one thousand overlaid by the second line representing the percentage of horizontal wells drilled in the US. The lines are different in scale--one is exponential and the other is linear--but it is proof of the change occurring in the industry. The initial one, which is mostly conventional oil and gas, was flat and unconventional gas, which is nonlinear, is at the end. The double inflection tipping point occurred during the unconventional oil boom, which produced more data and an automation-driven oil/gas boom. The exponential technology and its adoption is provided as(exponential growth)=(exponentialtechnology)(exponential@thinking) Dr. Robello Samuel
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