Outsmarting Vuggy Formations with AI – Reducing Drilling NPT.

Introduction Brazilian pre-salt has gained lots of spotlight lately, confirming its relevance as an strategic oil&gas reserve. Not surprisingly, Petrobras leads the pack in conceiving and developing technologies allowing it to tap those deep and ultra-deep reserves. Moreover, the giant Pre-Salt development challenges’ menu comes with plenty of options to choose from, including Logistics, Formation…

Scope – AI Based Drilling NPT Reduction Tool

Reducing Drilling NPT on Petrobras’ Pre-Salt Campaigns Scope is an Artificial Intelligence based solution able to predict the best Drilling Mud Additive to combat Lost Circulation. Scope was developed in a SimWorx & Petrobras R&D cooperation agreement. One of the challenges when drilling through salt is the occurrence, at pre-salt formations, of vugs (caves) those…