Records Of Great Wall Drilling’s Participation in The Joint Construction Of The (Belt And Road) Overseas Construction
Oct 26, 2023
Since the first drilling rig went abroad in 1997, Great Wall Drilling has closely followed the national energy development strategy and China Petroleum’s overall plan. After years of development, as the only Chinese oil drilling company with more than 20 years of overseas operating experience, it has formed a global The oil country's market layout and international business management mechanism are becoming increasingly mature, and indicators such as overseas team size, contract amount, contract value, total number of employees, and localization rate are all at the forefront of the technical services sector.
Over the past 10 years, Great Wall Drilling has actively implemented PetroChina's action plan to accelerate the "Belt and Road" oil and gas cooperation, participated in the "Belt and Road" joint construction of national economic development, promoted cultural integration, and cultivated an environment conducive to the development of enterprises overseas.
The passing years are all prologue, the sun and the moon shine together in the sky. Great Wall Drilling will continue to focus on production, take management as the starting point, take safety as the guarantee, insist on improving quality and efficiency to comprehensively improve performance and efficiency, insist on precise policy implementation to fully promote market development, insist on comprehensively ensuring sustainable development in accordance with laws and regulations, and insist on being people-oriented. Fully activate the team's vitality, continuously build high-quality projects, and establish the GWDC (Great Wall Drilling) brand of high quality, high level, and high efficiency.
During the 10 years of jointly building the “One Belt and One Road” initiative, Great Wall Drilling’s overseas business has achieved fruitful results.
1. In the past 10 years, 145,000 days of well logging have been carried out, 31,528 layers have been tested, and 8,448 wells have been cemented.
2. In the past 10 years, 150 drilling and workover teams and 692 engineering and technical service teams have gone abroad.
3. In the past 10 years, 3,091 wells were drilled, the drilling footage was 7.898 million meters, 4,629 wells were repaired, and 1,099 directional wells were drilled.
Kazakhstan Project Department creates a “fast track” for sustainable development
The Great Wall Drilling Kazakhstan Project Department, located in the place where the “Belt and Road Initiative” was first initiated, has been established for 25 years. Since its establishment, the project department has drilled a total of 785 wells, generated revenue of 16.8 billion yuan, broken more than 100 construction records, and won many awards such as the Kazakhstan National Outstanding Enterprise Award and the National May Day Labor Certificate.
Develop a lean team and deepen cost reduction and efficiency improvement. Faced with changes in the international oil market over the past 20 years, the Kazakhstan Project Department has found a "fast lane" for sustainable development. On the one hand, it promoted management transformation, continuously refined the training and training of local employees, and created a team of local employees with strong professional capabilities and superb technical capabilities. It achieved the goal of 100% localization rate of well team employees, directly and indirectly providing services to the host country. Create more than 20,000 jobs; on the other hand, we actively promote electricity-to-oil projects, mud utilization, light asset investment and other measures to achieve total factor cost reduction, saving 100 million yuan in labor costs since 2000.
Work hard to build a brand project. Facing the mining environment of "high pressure, high sulfur content, and high gas-to-oil ratio", the project department concentrated on overcoming the pre-salt drilling problems in the Kenkiyak Oilfield in Kazakhstan. From 2005 to 2014, the cumulative well completion success rate in the Kenkiyak subsalt block was 94%, an average increase of 19.5 times compared with the success rate before 2005. In 2011, new drilling tool technology was applied to break through the technical bottleneck of the Kenkiyak subsalt permosphere formation, increasing the drilling rate by 4.5 times. In 2012, PetroChina’s first overseas dual-branch horizontal well and Kazakhstan’s National Petroleum’s first dual-branch horizontal well were successfully drilled.
Performance control stimulates the motivation of all employees. Taking performance appraisal as the starting point, the project department has established six management systems including operations and technology, financial operations and market development, material management and procurement; it uses a digital information management system to realize remote supervision and real-time assessment of on-site employees; through the implementation of single Through individual performance appraisals, well team leader performance appraisals and other all-employee performance appraisals, the sense of responsibility of Chinese employees has been significantly improved, and the fighting spirit of local employees has been significantly enhanced.
Niger Project Department gives full play to its advantages to assist oilfield construction
Since 2008, the Niger Project Department of Great Wall Drilling has always been responsible for ensuring the oil and gas development of the group company in Niger. It has insisted on maximizing the overall interests of the group company as its starting point, leveraged the advantages of the integrated general contractor of wellbore construction, and efficiently completed the first phase of the Agadem Oilfield. Capacity construction, production stabilization and second-phase production capacity construction tasks, and practical actions are used to escort the group company to build a large oil field in Niger.
Prioritize quality and adhere to technology to strengthen the enterprise. The project department implements "big platform manager" management. The big platform manager is responsible for streamlining construction preparations, optimizing construction operation plans, strengthening the connection of operating procedures, standardizing team start-up and stop management, and implementing full-process control over well construction to ensure orderly "switching on and off." Through tangible technical measures, personalized construction plans, technological command systems, and innovative processes, we have firmly grasped the "narrow nose" that affects quality and efficiency. In the past 15 years, the average drilling speed has increased by 57.6%, the average completion cycle has been shortened by 42.2%, the downhole failure rate has been reduced by 85.4%, the well quality rate is 100%, and the cementing quality rate is 100%. Excellent construction quality and efficiency effectively ensure the development of oil and gas fields.
Highlight innovation and adhere to science and technology to develop enterprises. Great Wall Drilling's Niger Project Department has given full play to the role of the well team as a shared platform and introduced digital and intelligent remote command and decision-making systems such as the EISC system, geosteering integrated platform, and Drilling Anywhere to adjust and make decisions on technical measures in real time to achieve front and rear linkage and precise Process control and decision-making. In 2022, among the six horizontal wells constructed for the first time in Niger, the accuracy of stuck layers reached 100%, and the first landing rate reached 100%. In addition, based on the special natural environment and reservoir conditions of the Agadem oil area, new technological tools such as drilling rig translation devices, flow and water control, intelligent injection, and Navi pump heavy oil testing technology have been introduced to continuously improve the quality of wellbore construction and extend the length of oil wells. Effective life cycle. The scientific and technological innovation of the Niger project department has led to the improvement of operational efficiency and benefits, achieving high-quality and sustainable development of the project department.
The UAE Project Department seizes opportunities and continues to expand market share
At the beginning of this year, the UAE Project Department successfully signed a four-diamond and four-repair service project amid fierce competition. In the past 10 years, the UAE Project Department has adhered to the policy of fast and efficient, promptly allocated high-quality resources to customers, provided efficient solutions, and solved difficult problems. "If you have any questions, please contact Great Wall" has been spread by word of mouth in the UAE market.
In 2013, the United Arab Emirates Project Department was officially established and started its entrepreneurial journey in a foreign country. The seven people in the project department overcame language and cultural barriers and were divided into three groups to carry out registration management, technology promotion and market development. In 2015, with its high emphasis on quality, safety and environmental protection, and its service awareness to solve Party A's problems, it broke the local oil company's prejudice against Chinese brands and successfully signed service contracts for three 1,500-horsepower drilling rigs.
In 2016, oil companies reduced investment and drilling rig services were forced to terminate early. The project department continued to explore customer needs and summarized the experience of opening up the market: respond promptly to questions raised by customers, meet reasonable customer requirements in a timely manner, and formulate work regulations for feedback on customer needs on the same day. During the two-year waiting period, the project department still received orders for vehicle rentals, moving services, and reserve tank rentals, and restarted three drilling rigs in 2019.
In 2020, international oil prices fell, and the service contracts of three drilling rigs were terminated early again. The project department did not wait or rely on, but persisted in customer maintenance and actively sought market opportunities, obtained mud material supply orders, opened up the drilling rig equipment sales and trading, drilling auxiliary equipment leasing market, and made new breakthroughs in well workover services.
In 2022, faced with the market opportunity to increase oil field production, the project department responded quickly, coordinated resources from all parties, and after multiple rounds of negotiations, defeated several well-known Western companies and won the fierce competition.
Over the past 10 years, the UAE Project Department has overcome obstacles, seized major market opportunities, and reaped rewards. Today, the UAE Project Department strives to achieve perfection while striving for excellence and strives to achieve high-quality and sustainable development.
The Kuwait Project Department’s “drilling, repairing, and recording” work went hand in hand and won praise
Great Wall Drilling has been intensively cultivating in Kuwait for more than 10 years and has established an image of a Chinese enterprise with "high efficiency, good quality and credibility", and has become an important promoter and contributor of practical cooperation between China and Kuwait.
Persistently expand the market and break the ice from "0" to "1". In order to promote the "Belt and Road" energy cooperation in depth, Great Wall Drilling has been committed to developing the Kuwait engineering technical service market since 2012; in July 2017, it broke through the Kuwait National Petroleum Company technical service market for the first time and won the "5+1" bid for well logging. annual service contract; in April 2018, it won the bid for Kuwait National Petroleum Company's "5+1" annual well workover service contract; in October 2022, it won the bid for Kuwait National Petroleum Company's drilling and workover services, and Great Wall Drilling Company's drilling rigs entered the Kuwait market for the first time. Through unremitting efforts, Great Wall Drilling has become the fourth largest drilling contractor in Kuwait and the Chinese-funded enterprise that has passed the most qualifications in the Kuwait petroleum engineering and technical services sector. It has formed a good development trend of drilling, repairing and recording in parallel.
Efficient service wins praise, and high-quality service creates great results. Since its operation in 2018, Great Wall Drilling Kuwait Project Department has adhered to the "customer-centered" purpose and focused on creating quality projects. It has received more than 20 letters of commendation and has been highly recognized by Party A. In order to improve market competitiveness, the project department implemented the concept of "time is efficiency". It took the GW325 team only 24 days from the arrival of the equipment at the port to the official start of drilling, breaking the fastest record of Kuwait National Oil Company. Other teams started ahead of schedule. Drilling started a total of 164 rig days ahead of schedule, and the average relocation speed of the project was controlled within one day, which was about 60% less than the time limit stipulated in the contract. The full-day rate of each team in the Great Wall Drilling Kuwait project has remained above 99% for many years, winning high praise from Kuwait National Petroleum Company.
Chad project department’s intelligent construction improves production efficiency
The Chad Project Department of Great Wall Drilling was established in February 2005 and began to provide services to China Petroleum Chad Branch in January 2007. During the 16-year cooperation process, the Chad project has built more than 700 wells for Party A.
At the beginning of the establishment of the project, the project department carried out drastic reforms in response to the low efficiency of the production organization, slow moving speed, and low satisfaction of Party A. On the one hand, we adhere to top-level design, optimize the organizational structure, and establish a production coordination and command center as the "general dispatcher" and "general brain" for frontline organization and coordination; on the other hand, with the purpose of improving the quality of serving Party A, we encourage employees to work tirelessly with Party A communicates more and frequently. These reforms have made the project operation more and more efficient, and the well team's operation level and production efficiency have been continuously improved. In 2020, the project made significant progress in Party A's satisfaction survey.
At the beginning of 2020, Party A began to launch an exploration plan for two blocks in peripheral remote areas. Heavy rainfall caused civil roads to be soaked and damaged by stagnant water for a long time, making the relocation and logistical support of drilling rigs and other equipment extremely difficult. In order to ensure the exploration and construction, all employees of the Chad Project Department carried forward the iron man spirit, actively planned, conducted road surveys in advance, formed an operation route survey report, and formulated measures to ensure the safe relocation of personnel and equipment. With no supporting points on the periphery, the GW58 team built the camp in just one day and completed the full startup of the equipment in eight days.
In 2021, facing the challenges of intelligent construction of overseas oil and gas fields, the project department continued to explore. Under the unified planning of China Petroleum Exploration and Development Corporation, it established a system based on perception, interconnection, and data fusion to implement "real-time monitoring and intelligent diagnosis of the drilling and production process." ", automatic disposal, intelligent optimization" new overseas oilfield business management model promotes the transformation of overseas project information from decentralization to centralization, and establishes a benchmark for digital empowerment of PetroChina's overseas upstream projects.
The "youngest" overseas project of the Mexican Project Department begins a new journey
On September 20 this year, the GW905 drilling rig successfully started drilling in Tupilco; on September 29, the first batch of project funds was received. At this point, Great Wall Drilling's Mexico project department has fully launched two batches of eight 9,000-meter drilling rigs. The contract was signed in the same year, drilling started in the same year, and benefits were achieved in the same year, officially entering a new stage of production and operation.
The Mexican Project Department has the courage to be a pioneer in overseas markets, taking the market as its lifeline, fully mobilizing resources in Mexico, and continuing to promote technology. Within half a year, it won two batches of eight drilling rig service contracts from Pemex, with a contract value of hundreds of millions of yuan. , achieving a major breakthrough in the Mexican market. Great Wall Drilling also reversed the stereotype that Party A does not trust China's technical standards. After competing on the same stage with equipment from Western companies, Great Wall Drilling has taken the lead in more than 10 technical fields such as drill automation, escape devices, monitoring systems, and safety control systems. Chinese oil people, Chinese engineering equipment, and Chinese drilling services have since then established themselves in Mexico. Take root.
The project department strives to be the leader in overseas drilling. Mexico has mature petroleum industry technology, high entry barriers, business difficulty, legal system, operating standards and tax requirements. It is a century-old base for many well-known Western oil services companies. During the project start-up process, the contract provided for a mobilization period of only 150 days from the date of signing. Under the circumstances of tight time and lack of resources and manpower, Great Wall Drilling gave full play to the overall advantage of "concentrating efforts to do big things". The registration was completed in August 2022, the first drilling rig lifted the derrick in September, and the first batch of drilling rigs set sail in November. In January 2023, the first drilling rig GW168 officially started drilling. In February, it broke the single-day footage record of the Quesqui Oilfield and set a record for the fastest block operation time. In June, it achieved 100% full day rate performance. The good performance and professional quality of the project department are highly recognized by Party A. Great Wall Drilling has fully embarked on a new journey as the "youngest" overseas project in Mexico.
