Energy tech company eDrilling has released its wellControl CCUS software, which is designed to address the risks of CO2 in infill drilling operations.
The Green Light project is an industrywide R&D collaboration to provide comprehensive drilling engineering software giving the "green light" on drilling into underground storage. The Green Light partners are Equinor, Eni, Shell, Sintef, Noble, Transocean, Baker Hughes, Wild Well Control, EBN, and Gassnova.
“Together with our partners in the Green Light project, we have investigated and addressed the knowledge gaps around CO2 kicks, un-controlled blowouts, and cooling effects,” said Sven Inge Ødegaard, eDrilling COO and project manager in Green Light. “We’ve then upgraded the existing well control model to calculate pressure, temperature and flow rates with inflow and transportation of CO2 to topside. The uniqueness of this project and software is that it takes into account the interactions between CO₂ and drilling fluids in a well control scenario.”
eDrilling CEO Caroline Vorpenes added, “In Green Light, we have also made the decision with our partners to provide all CCUS drilling engineering software cloud native, as microservices, hence democratizing this technology. The objective being to extract the software's value without having to replace, and rather leverage, legacy or future systems and equipment, and moreover, not bind yourself to a given services provider—a demand we are hearing more and more from the operators and seeing in other industries.”
eDrilling is exhibiting this week at booth 4212 at ONS 2024 in Stavanger. View the ONS program to learn more about presentations by eDrilling and more.
