AUTOMATION SYSTEM OF A MANEUVERING OPERATION WITHIN A DRILLING INSTALLATION

Abstract

The Oil and Gas industry is pursuing major changes in automation, with the aim of reducing the risk involved in operations and increasing efficiency, speeding up processes to reduce costs. Internationally and especially in the Offshore environment, deposits with high productive potential are targeted, which are put into operation through a small number of wells with a high flow rate, due to the complexity of marine drilling. The high costs in this sector of the industry make it necessary to optimize all operational times, thus we very often encounter automation elements in the marine drilling process. This work intends to present the advantages of using the Simulink program package in the simulation of the processes, respectively of the maneuver operation in a drilling installation, to predict their real behavior.

Keywords

• drilling
• automation
• oil & gas
• offshore oil & gas industry