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Innovative Drilling Technologies

To Maximise Recovery

Iain Hutchison CEng FIMechE

MD Merlin ERD Ltd

OGTC Aug 2017

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Insanity:

“Doing the Same thing & expecting

different results”

Albert Einstein

Change or Die


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Be a Champion

• Aspiration

• Belief

• Perseverance

• Leverage

• Better never ends


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Drilling is Everything

YOU can drill…

• FURTHER than you think

• FASTER than you believe

• At lower RISK, TIME & COST

People are brilliant!


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ERD Applications

Viable? How to tell / prove it?


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Encana Germain 15A-36

Apache STAG 12H

Maersk Qatar Persian Gulf BD-04A

ExxonMobil Russia Sakhalin Island OP-11

ExxonMobil Russia Sakhalin Offshore O-14

Statoil Norway North Sea B-47

ExxonMobil Canada Newfoundland and Labrador B-16 56 OPA2

Shell USA Gulf of Mexico - Mississippi Canyon A10 S1Shell USA Gulf of Mexico - Mississippi Canyon A10

Shell USA Gulf of Mexico - Garden Banks GB 472 #2 ST3Shell USA Gulf of Mexico - Mississippi Canyon MC 766 #1

Shell USA Gulf of Mexico - Garden Banks GB 426 A-16 ST3

BP USA Gulf of Mexico - Mississippi Canyon MC725 # 1

Devon Energy USA Gulf of Mexico - Walker Ridge WR 278

Chevron USA Gulf of Mexico - Green Canyon GC 512 #1 BP2

GNPP Nedra Russian Kola Peninsula SG-3

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Industry Achievements


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Behave Like a 3 Year Old

UK & Norway North Sea ERD Wells


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10 km

15 km

Industry Capabilities

Thistle Area

NWFB

Murchison

Dunlin

Statfjord A

Thistle

Drilling Reach:

10 km Achieved

13 km World Record

15 km Tech Capability

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Transformational change


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• Packing off/stuck pipe

• Reaming

• Wiper trips

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Technology Transfer


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1993-1994

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Standard Deviated Wells


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Standard Deviated Wells

ERD practices + additional

experience = record wells

ERD evolution

2007 (Australia)

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ERD practices + additional

experience = record wells

ERD evolution

2007 (Australia)

Cut well times and costs by

engineering the details


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Your “End”

NPV (net present value)Drill Further, Faster at Lower Cost & Risk


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Today’s Talk

YOU can drill…

• FURTHER than you think

• FASTER than you believe

• At lower RISK, TIME & COST

People are brilliant!


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Transformational Change

Merlin ERD LimitedTel +44 1738 627922

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If we always do what we’ve always done, we’ll only get what we’ve always had!

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