Viewer Tool for Mud-Logging Data in Well Drilling Operations

• Grant number: 11/19164-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: December 01, 2011
• End date: November 30, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Computer Science - Computer Systems
• Principal Investigator: Adriane Beatriz de Souza Serapião
• Grantee: Rafael Takashi Hojo
• Host Institution: Instituto de Geociências e Ciências Exatas (IGCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil

Abstract

In the last decades, the petroleum offshore exploration have notably advances. As the result of this process, the amount of well drilling operational data has been intensily increased. The development os sensors and data processing sistems afforded to measure and to record a lot of information involved, which comprise from rig operational parameters until characteristics of the drilled geological formation. If there is nowadays information in abundance, other hand, there is a lack of tools able to use efficiently all data and information available. Despite of the technological improvements, the Drilling Engineering has advanced in a discrete way on data analisys techniques. This project proposes the development of a well drilling data analysis and viewer tool, in order to provide information and interpretations useful to accomplish enhancements in the drilling processes of new oil wells.