Precautionary Procedures in Basrah Oil Fields Drilling Operations Using Smartphones

Abstract

Basrah oil fields carry multiple drilling problems that are drilled with difficulty, theseproblems are often treated incompetently. This inefficiency in the procedures in handling theproblems often results in a long wait around time. This study aims to offer the bestprecautionary procedures that can be taken in the form of a smartphone’s application(Precautions Enhancer) to reach trustworthy precautions anywhere needed on the oil field.
 The introduction of smartphones to the drilling engineering in particular and the petroleumindustry in general is a critical and a very useful tool that could be developed to gain accuracyand speed on field.The plans of precautions for the expected drilling problems are carried out. The includedformations extend from the upper and lower Faris to Mishrif. The precautions that are set as thebest practice are based on field experience and standardized IWCF methods. The usedprogramming techniques are: the classify algorithm (forward) technique is used to enhancePrecautions Enhancer’s (PE) abilities to avoid the problems.An application called Precautions Enhancer (PE) having a friendly user interface that can be usedin the field is built with a full secure database of the fields’ problems and precautions with adatabase of the drilling problems in Basra oil fields in PE; all of the drilling problems that couldencountered while drilling with their precautionary procedures are all mounted in the database ofPE.