Offshore staff
AMSTERDAM -- Schlumberger has released the Orion II telemetry platform. According to the company, the new platform enables communication with bottomhole assemblies whether drilling at high penetration rates or longer boreholes.
The new generation Orion II telemetry platform combines new data compression technology housed in the MWD/LWD tool with new surface and downhole sensors that modulate and demodulate signals and overcome interference from drilling and rig noise. Downlink commands are sent in real time while drilling without affecting delivery of measurement data to surface.
The recent extended-reach drilling record by Maersk Oil Qatar was successfully drilled and geosteered using a PowerDrive rotary steerable system, geoVISION imaging-while-drilling service, adnVISION azimuthal density neutron tool, and TeleScope high-speed telemetry service running the Orion II telemetry platform.
Presently available on IMPulse, adnVISION475, and EcoScope LWD services, as well as TeleScope and SlimPulse telemetry systems, the Orion II platform is scheduled for rapid deployment to other tools in the company's LWD/MWD fleet.
"With Orion II, more quality data and higher resolution images can be transmitted, at greater depths, enabling better drilling decisions to be made in real time," says Ian Falconer, marketing manager, drilling & measurements, Schlumberger. "Both drilling efficiency and geosteering accuracy are enhanced by the system, which holds the records for world's deepest downlink, deepest logging-while-drilling (LWD) and measurement-while-drilling (MWD) transmission and deepest directional control."
03/17/2009
