Annual seminar SFI DigiWells, November 26th – 27th, 2024, Clarion Hotel Air, Stavanger

Note: the event is fully booked.

Program

Time Session
November 26th
08:30 Coffee and registration
09:15 - Welcome and introduction, Kristin Flornes
- Overview of SFI DigiWells, Erlend H. Vefring
- AkerBP digital strategy with focus on D&W, Tommy Skjerven, Digital Execution Manager, AkerBP
- Digitalization and automation for drilling and well operations, Andre Leibsohn, Petrobras
10:25 Coffee break
10:45 - One day I woke up and the driller’s cabin was full of screens. How changes in the driller's cabin affect the driller and what to do about it, Elisabeth Arnd, Human Factors Engineer, and Svein Harald Gabrielsen, Advisor Digital Solutions for drilling and Wells, Equinor
- Safety mechanisms for drilling automation and autonomy, Eric Cayeux
11:30 Lunch
12:30 - From Planning to Execution - How it fits together, Benoit Daireaux
- Demonstrations of interoperability with industrial players, Eric Cayeux
- Dynamic Verification and Validation, Rodica Mihai
13:50 Coffee break
14:10 - Panel discussion: "The well delivery process: Next steps for digitalization, automation and autonomy"
- Flowrate Out Measurement Device, Jan Einar Gravdal
15:25 Coffee break
15:45 - Inline PVT measurements, Knut Bjørkevoll
- 3D Geological Interpretation for Geosteering, Nazanin Jahani
- How to Explain Geology to a Robot? DISTINGUISHing Patterns for Optimal Geosteering Decisions, Sergey Alyaev
16:40 Refreshments
17:30 Dinner at the hotel restaurant
November 27th
08:30 - Welcome day 2, Erlend H. Vefring
- Automatic Well Planning, Eric Cayeux
- Automated Drilling Operational Plan, Benoit Daireaux
09:40 Coffee break
09:55 - Towards Automated Tripping, Rodica Mihai
- Cloud-Free Question Answering from Internal Knowledge Bases: Building an AI for Drilling Applications, Sergey Alyaev
- Presentations from PhD students and postdocs:
o A demonstration to build semantic model of drilling data based on LLM and ontology, Liang Zhang, NORCE
o Modeling and control of damping subs for reduction of drillstring torsional vibration, Pauline Nüsse & Nils Christian Aars Wilhelmsen, NTNU
o Evaluation of Drill String Dynamics using Finite Element Modeling, Åsmund Aamodt Resell, University of Stavanger
11:30 Lunch and End of Seminar