DrillWise: Drilling performance intelligence

DrillWise provides a first-pass view of where well time is being spent. It separates apparent productive time from non-productive time, then exposes invisible lost time inside activity periods that may otherwise look acceptable in standard reports.

• Compare productive time with non-productive time
• Separate real productive time from ILT and NPT
• Break total time into operating-status and trip activities
• Quantify hours consumed by the largest activity categories
• Review the largest time categories alongside the underlying activity record
• Compare the same well phase before benchmarking performance
• Use recurring losses to focus the next operational improvement review
• Identify activities that appear productive at a high level but contain repeated hidden delays
• Show how much time is genuinely contributing to well progress versus waiting, rework, or interruption

The time-taxonomy view organizes the well into productive time, planned flat time, non-productive time, and an ILT overlay. It then groups flat time into operational families so teams can see which activities dominate the well and where inefficiency sits inside otherwise planned work.

• Track PT, PFT, NPT, and ILT in one comparable framework
• Measure total well time and the ILT overlay separately
• Break flat time into connections, tripping, idle/NPT, and other operation families
• Compare family-level time with the overall well-time profile
• Keep category definitions consistent across reporting periods
• Review overlapping ILT separately from the underlying activity
• Use phase context when comparing time distribution across wells
• Identify where ILT is concentrated inside activities that would otherwise be reported as planned flat time

DrillWise connects non-productive time to its reported causes, monthly pattern, drilling phases, and financial consequence.

• Compare productive and non-productive time across the campaign
• Rank NPT by coded reason such as circulation, equipment, or tool failure

• Review monthly NPT patterns alongside the phase in which each event occurred
• Connect the highest-impact causes with the operational records behind the delay
• Separate recurring causes from isolated events before prioritising improvement work

Review planned and actual depth progression alongside planned and actual cost. The combined view connects physical delivery with financial exposure as the well progresses.

Identify where the curves begin to diverge and review that interval against the recorded operation. Use the comparison to prioritise a closer review of the work behind the delay or additional spend.

• Compare actual depth progression with the planned trajectory over the same time interval
• Inspect cost divergence alongside the operations performed in that interval
• Use the combined evidence to focus the next engineering and planning review

Flat time captures periods when the bit is not creating new hole, including planned and unplanned activities.

• Quantify flat time as a share of total well time
• Separate planned flat time, NPT, and ILT
• Break flat time into connections, tripping, circulation, reaming, and idle/NPT
• Identify the operational families with the largest improvement potential
• Compare the dominant flat-time family across similar operating periods
• Review whether a delay was expected or required operational follow-up
• Compare connection performance across stands, sections, wells, and crews
• Separate circulation required by the drilling program from circulation caused by operational difficulty
• Highlight reaming periods that repeatedly exceed expected duration

DrillWise decomposes each connection into pre-connection, in-slip, and post-connection sub-phases. Trends, outlier detection, Pareto ranking, and cumulative ILT by depth reveal both the specific step causing delay and where that loss accumulates across the well.

• Measure W2S, S2S, and S2W connection sub-phases separately
• Track rolling connection trends and statistical outliers
• Rank the largest ILT contributors using a Pareto view
• Inspect the activity record behind a connection outlier
• Review whether delays repeat at the same connection sub-phase
• Use cumulative loss to prioritise the highest-impact improvement
• Quantify how much each sub-phase contributes to total connection time
• Measure the cumulative ILT created by repeated small connection delays
• Show where cumulative connection loss increases most rapidly with depth

TripWise-style speed analytics within DrillWise compare individual trip performance with an agreed benchmark and show the full speed distribution.

• Compare trip-in and trip-out performance using the same benchmark assumptions
• Review the distribution of trip speeds rather than relying only on an average
• Identify unusually slow intervals and connect them with the recorded activity
• Compare crews under similar operating conditions before drawing performance conclusions

The day-versus-night view compares invisible lost time, connection behavior, and normalized performance across crews.

• Compare ILT hours by operational category for day and night shifts
• Use a performance radar to compare normalized crew results
• Compare connection W2W distributions by shift

• Review crew comparisons against the same well phase and activity mix
• Use the evidence to identify repeatable practices and specific coaching opportunities

• Review crew comparisons against the same well phase and activity mix

DrillWise tracks connection performance over the well and places it beside broader category and trip-speed comparisons.

• Track day and night connection W2W trends over time
• Compare average performance across connection, trip-in, and trip-out categories
• Compare trip-in speed distributions between shifts
• Benchmark mean trip-in speed against the target

• Review trend changes against the current well phase
• Identify improvements that persist across successive shifts