Optimize Drilling Program and Development Plans

Drilling Efficiency Through Competitor Benchmarking, With a Focus on Safety and Collaboration

Devon Energy actively drills in the oil rich Eagle Ford, where tight well spacing poses multiple challenges for safely executing optimized drilling programs. Specifically, it can be difficult to ensure adequate vertical and horizontal space between tightly stacked wells, and to identify neighboring wells that could require temporary shut-ins during drilling operations to avoid collisions or impact the production of existing wells.

Additionally, areas of the Eagle Ford that produce sour gas require Devon drilling engineers to potentially modify the casing design to prevent wellbore corrosion and avoid leaking harmful emissions

Devon drilling programs are seeking to safely maximize rate of penetration (ROP) and decrease drilling costs. To do so, the operator must also benchmark nearby peers to compare what combination of drilling design yields optimal results. To achieve this, Devon Energy’s South Texas drilling unit previously faced barriers to efficiently analyzing offset wells, anticollision planning, managing data sprawl and balancing a variety of analysis tools that weren’t collaborative for the whole team to leverage.