HUB ORM – Benefit #1: Increase Productivity Using Historical Well Files.

What you did in your last well, and the wells before that, contain the key to saving time in setting up your next well. A lot of work went into recording the:

• products and services you used
• vendors you engaged
• consultants you contracted, and who they reported to
• mud lists, with final inventories, for use as the starting point on your next well

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These are the foundation of your functional operations database. These reusable mix and match components that most systems consider a throw away as far as setting up new well operations is concerned. HUB ORM treats the information you recorded in lists for products, vendors, consultants, superintendents and drilling muds as valuable data from your historical records. Information that should be used in building the control files for your new wells.

The key to unlocking this value is an easy import process that allows you to use lists of information from previous wells as à la carte entries to build lists for your current well. A simple process that allows you to point at any previous wells done by our company, and pick from the products and services used to append to current control lists. What makes the process even smoother is to have all lists presented in alphabetical order for quick assessment and selection.

 

 

If you have that feeling that most, if not all, of the things you need to set up you in your new well you have already entered before… you’re absolutely correct!. Have you ever run into a person who says they appreciate having to re-enter the list of products they use, or re-enter the names of suppliers, or rebuild mud lists from different providers? Not in my lifetime!

In our last blog on the value of standardized naming, it is clear there was a definite advantage in adding new products and services using a standardized list. Using the same language and spelling to describe products or service companies is very important for consistency and continuity. But once you or anyone in your company has entered this information once, it is not new anymore. That is the value of using the work done on earlier wells as your functional operations database.

You should be able to quickly point at any previous well and bring up a list of products or services from your historical well files. The key is to select only the items you want, press a button to automatically import them, and add them to the list in your new well. It’s that easy!

 

 

 

For example, let’s review the impact this approach has on drilling muds. You have been carefully recording daily mud usage from the Tour Sheet. You have made the end of well adjustments to ratify the mud man’s inventory assessment. What makes more sense than using those inventory amounts with the full mud descriptions, prices and measurements as the starting point for your next well?

This makes perfect sense if you simply drive the mud van to your next well. What if the mud van goes back to the yard to get restocked before it goes to the next well and the inventory levels change? A new mud inventory shows up at the new well. The simple answer is to import the muds from the previous well, show the recorded inventory levels, but allow the new inventory to be easily adjusted. Muds that are not in the inventory are simply removed which reduces the   useless clutter in the typical mud lists.

Using historical lists of previous well information from your function operations database as a contributor to current wells not only assists in standardizing names but also saves valuable non-productive time.

December 2, 2014

 

Bob Morrell Vice-President Operations Leadstone Group Inc.

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