The drilling industry is often required to access reserves that require complex and highly specialised technology and skills. This includes drilling wells in deeper water, to greater step outs and with more aggressive, short radius wellpaths. Our innovative industry always finds ways of meeting these challenges safely and with ever increasing focus on performance and sustainability. In this session, the focus will be on some of these ‘special drilling methods. Subjects to be explored could include:

· Extended reach drilling
· Ultra short radius drilling
· Ultra deepwater
· HPHT Drilling
· Next generation well architectures
· Technology for revitalising old fields
· Multilaterals
· Depleted reservoir drilling

Please can you help us with suggestions for presentations and/or names of experts in this area who we can approach for the Q223 meeting, both from your company, but also from the industry generally.

Drilling processes and technology develop and advance with time. This DEA(e) meeting aims to cover new improvements and lessons learned in:

• Drilling dynamics detection and mitigation –
  the latest in tools, procedures, analytics
• Drilling mechanics and dynamics. Practices, procedures, technology and case histories
• Drilling technology and case histories
  (downhole tools, drill pipe and drill bits)
• Slim hole and through tubing drilling –
  low cost well solutions to low volume targets
• Technology for improved downhole understanding and increased drilling performance
• Liner/casing drilling
• Making the most of what we have –
  developments and optimisations in depleted reservoir drilling
• BHA wear and solutions
• Improve drilling design solutions to increase performance and save costs and improve safety
  a. Ex Hole size 16 vs. 17 ½

Innovation has for a long time driven the oil and gas industry to achieve remarkable feats. Many parts of the industry today would be unrecognisable to our predecessors, however, we still have untapped potential.

In a world where we are driven to ‘do more with less’, further innovation, especially in the areas of digitalisation and automation is required. The well delivery process continues to evolve with time; what technology, digital tools or automation processes will carry us into the future?

The DEA(e) invites presentation related to the following topics for the Q3 2023 conference:

• Systems automation across the well lifecycle
• Remote operations advances
• Well time and cost planning technology
• Real-time drilling engineering software at the wellsite
• Wired Drillpipe and Drilling Automation
• Automating the well Construction Work Flow
• Drilling rig automation and Drilling Control Systems
• Data management and digitalization processes applied to drilling, completions and P&A operations
• Capturing and sharing lessons learned
• Integrated surveillance methods
• Drilling / Well construction digitalization
• Automated material logistics.

Meeting introduction for Q4 will follow