Well Duration Taskforce: A Precision Strike on the Dragging Factors Impacting Well Delivery

The paper aims at showcasing the multifaceted approach that facilitated Well delivery recovery from 90% in July'24 to 102% by Dec'24 year for a drilling team handling one of the largest brown fields in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region. The Well delivery taskforce created an impact by reduction in well duration and NPT through optimization of operations, embedding new technology, reintroducing past success and preserving consistency. Key focus of the paper includes establishment of challenging performance benchmarks, review of well designs, revamping of drilling programs and practices, recycling of lesson learnt into drilling/completion programs and to increase technology footprint that targets well-duration reduction. From present study, 37% of action items deployed delivered duration savings from the first well thereby ensuring a psychological push to the whole new approach. 30% of the initiatives showed the impact of ensuring consistency in operations and reduction in NPT. Additionally, well recovery rose from 90% to 96% with a reduction in average well duration by an impressive 6%. The overall Invisible Loss Time (ILT) on drilling rigs reduced from 34.1% to 33.9% and 31.4% in Q3 and Q4 respectively compared to Q2. The well duration taskforce brought together a new thought process to challenge Best of Best in each sub activity, wherein overruling the conventional P75 approach. This brought about momentum to the operations that is leveraged on resilient consistency.