The international coiled tubing (CT) market is expanding, driven by the need to enhance production from aging fields and increasing demands for well intervention and plug and abandonment (P&A).
Despite advancements in digitalization and automation, CT technology is still underdeveloped compared to jointed pipe operations, where autonomous drilling has been successfully demonstrated.
This project is poised to bridge this gap, advancing the knowledge and technological foundations necessary to unlock the full potential of CT operations, with an emphasis on conveyance and drilling operations.
The project addresses several interlinked, technological, and knowledge-based challenges that we have grouped into three main work packages:
- Process understanding and modeling,
- model calibration and digitalization, and
- automation and autonomy.
The novelty of this project lies in a higher fidelity of the resulting simulation model compared to state-of-the-art, while suitable calibration routines are developed, and novel automated functions are developed and integrated into a fully autonomous system.
All these three aspects are ambitious, and major challenges need to be addressed, requiring knowledge beyond current state-of-the-art within all aspects.
We believe that the proposed advancements, combined with in-depth competence in modern autonomous jointed pipe drilling systems, will make this possible.
The project is led by NORCE and is carried out in collaboration with the University of Stavanger, the University of Clausthal in Germany, and several energy companies.
