The Virtual Environment is Here
Real Time Data - Virtual Well Monitoring: Experience Matters!

Recent catastrophic blow outs have underscored the value of real time data. More importantly, they have also underscored the value of having the right kind of experience to understand well "listening", in real time. What is the well telling us?

The advantages to a client are:

• Global expertise can be engaged with the aid of internet browsers, enhancing Knowledge Management.
• A plethora of experience can be brought into "play" - making peer review easy, and inexpensive.
• Expensive travel costs are eliminated.
• Typical monitoring costs are a fraction of normal day rates paid to consultants - charges are by the hour rather than by the day.
• Facilitates, enables, and promotes "real time" collaboration from global locations with rig personnel, management, and service providers

SEPI uses highly experienced consultants to monitor operations The goals of virtual monitoring are to:

The advantages to a client are:

• Provide basic information to ensure drilling performance – Drilling Value Assurance.
• Assist in problem avoidance: Drilling Hazards Management.
• Provide real time summaries of operations from conventional morning reports with typical productive, non-productive, and invisible lost time analysis.
• Recommend and initiate utilization of industry best practices, checklists and guidelines.
• Ensure recordation of "lessons learned" for future reference.
• Provide the framework for after action reviews and end-of-well reports.
• Assist in "looks-ahead".