Success Stories and Articles

Set the foundation for analytics Managing and improving the quality of upstream drilling data has always been important for the energy industry. In recent years, the growing use of analytical tools has made it even more vital to ensure data is accurate, reliable, and complete. We are all familiar with the term ‘garbage in, garbage…

Leverage expertise across multiple assets Real-time Operations Centers (RTOCs) have been a mainstay in the industry for over a decade now. As an RTOC provider, Petrolink has been at the forefront of advising on and building collaborative decision-making spaces for our clients all around the world. As we begin a new year it is worth…

Two essential tools you need to geosteer your next well The process of geosteering is perhaps the most challenging in drilling. It is mission critical and the drilling team has to leverage as many tools as possible to stay within the pay zone. Everyone in the asset team has a role to play; while Geologists…

Video conferences, calls and chat apps have been crucial to business operations for many years. The last two have just accelerated a growing trend but in a way that no one really envisaged. Here at Petrolink we quickly recognized the shift to remote work and the need for a new breed of collaboration apps. We…

Managing Emails lists with tens or hundreds of members?Perpetual questions about whether this is the latest report? These issues have often plagued static data in the oil and gas industry causing reporting errors and hampering productivity. Petrolink’s Digital Well File (DWF) was designed to solve both storage and distribution challenges of wellsite reporting. We have…

Applications which produce 3D trajectory displays have been around for a long time and are routinely used as important tools to safely plot a path to the pay zone. Since we launched PetroVue last year our product team has been working on improvements to our trajectory tool and we are excited to share the latest…

Shift your drilling up a gear with Heatmaps! At the rigsite a picture is worth a thousand data points. Your drilling team – engineers, tool pushers and geoscientists often spend too long wading through large volumes of data to decipher patterns, subtle rates of change, and thresholds being breached. It remains a challenge across the…

We’ve all had experiences of software with tired interfaces, buggy apps and regular crashes – the results are predictable. You either begrudgingly continue working in it, or leave the platform. Crafting great user interface design and user experience (UI/UX) is not simple in any business. Designing visualization platforms in oil and gas is no exception.…

Over the past few decades, the world has seen a speedy evolution of mobile generation technology. From ‘only voice’ analog 1G mobile network to the rise of mobile internet experience and focus on wireless World Wide Web (WWW) – the mobile space has surely changed a lot. With that, the way we use our mobile…

Upstream data management is a complicated process and getting it right is critical. Logs and reports composed using raw real-time or static data are constantly being generated and distributed. Unpicking the strands is not a trivial task. Each contractor has their own database which grows minute by minute – throw in duplicate reports and inaccurate…

Drilling Engineering Today Designing, monitoring, analyzing performance and coordinating onshore and offshore drilling teams. These are just some of the tasks required of your drilling engineers to ensure that a well is executed safely. To bridge the gap between the rig and the office; Geoscientists, the drilling teams, and service contractors, must all work together.…

Remote, on-the-go working has never been easier, but in some ways it has never been harder. The challenge of today’s energy environment is all about staying connected, from anywhere, anytime. The tools that you use play a big part in this and can either maximize your process efficiency or hinder its progress and leave you…

Building up a picture of the subsurface is a massive undertaking, one which takes thousands of hours and a diverse team. Everyone from drilling engineers, geologists and petrophysicists are involved. Unfortunately, on many projects, insights from planning in the office are not transferred to the well site. It is a long-standing issue and without closing…

Data comes in all shapes and sizes, and one of today’s main challenges is having it ready for immediate consumption. With us now amid the 4th Industry Revolution (4IR) we are all looking into using the latest and greatest techniques, but are we getting ahead of ourselves? Let us take a moment to think about…

Throughout the process of drilling a well, issues can arise that can slow down, or even halt operations. Monitoring the various workflow activities at each pod is key to maintaining operations. However, as personnel are only physically able to monitor a few wells with different workflows at the same time, monitoring each pod is extremely…

Achieved excellent gas quality range for carrying out gas analysis by replacing gas extraction equipment The Challenges During a trial with a National Oil Company it was observed that the gas data (chromatography and total gas) received from the surface logging contractor was of questionable quality for performing gas quality analysis which in turn was…

Remote monitoring, elimination of software license fees and a dramatic reduction in hardware costs saves money and boosts efficiency for Operator The Challenge Faced with the need to increase efficiencies and reduce costs, a large operator in the Middle East began to question its traditional method of aggregating and transmitting its drilling data. The Operator…