Western Drilling Concentrates On Building The First Deep Earth Drilling Army
Mar 26, 2024

As of March 21, Western Drilling has drilled 25 ultra-deep wells with a depth of more than 6,000 meters this year, and has completed drilling footage of 62,700 meters, setting new domestic inland records for the fastest drilling of 8,000 meters and 9,000 meters.
Western Drilling seizes the "two keys" to strengthen the company through talent and technology, optimizes the new organizational model throughout the chain, integrates to solve the "stuck neck" problem, systematically cultivates a team of outstanding talents, and builds a long-term chain by replenishing, extending and strengthening the chain. We will leverage our plate advantages, cultivate new productive forces, and create the first deep drilling force.
A new organizational model for whole-chain optimization. The company carefully sorts out the industrial chain, establishes a modern operating model, builds an efficient collaboration mechanism between Party A and Party B, promotes the coordinated matching of productivity factors, and enhances core functions. The company has established a monthly dynamic optimization mechanism for resources with oil and gas field companies to accurately grasp the progress of benefit evaluation, plan optimization, well location deployment, etc., promote balanced production, and increase drilling utilization rate. Promote the three models of new daily fee well-making engineering, geological engineering integration, and large-scale factory operations, improve the three major mechanisms of internal professional evaluation, incentives, and collaboration, strengthen the drilling "chain master system" and internal daily fee system management, and implement "project Based on "system + professional" management, we have established a project management department and a special team for scientific exploration well work in the southern margin of Junggar to promote professional integration collaboration and intensive allocation of resources.
Integrated solution to the "stuck neck" problem. The company has strengthened the in-depth integration of geological engineering, opened up the whole-process innovation ecological chain of "industry, academia, research and application", and tackled deep and ultra-deep exploration and development technologies. On average, it contracted more than one-third of the group's "five category wells" every year. The speed and fracturing efficiency are increasing year by year. Adhere to the integration of research and application, promote the "R&D + incubation + application + industrialization development" of the two institutes and four centers, establish a deep well and ultra-deep well drilling and completion technology system, improve the conversion rate of results, increase the contribution rate of scientific research and innovation, and accelerate the move to the middle and high end of the industrial chain Move forward. In the Ma 51X pilot test area of the Xinjiang Oilfield, the company jointly carried out 9 research projects in four aspects including personalized drill bits and speed-increasing tools in conjunction with the oil field integration. The first highly deviated well drilled, the MaX5126 well, achieved an overall speed increase of 40%, which was achieved for the first time. The well was completed within 100 days, setting a new record for the shortest drilling cycle. In view of the problem of weak anti-magnetic interference ability of downhole measuring-while-drilling instruments, we independently developed a continuous measurement gyro inclinometer required for magnetic ranging operations, realizing the transformation from single-point measurement to continuous measurement, and on-site functional testing achieved the expected results.
Systematically cultivate a team of outstanding talents. The company promotes comprehensive and deepening reforms, makes good use of talent as the first resource, implements the "project + talent" technical backbone and "strategy + technology" industry expert training model, and cultivates a team of management talents with entrepreneurial spirit, experts and professionals with scientist quality. A team of technical talents, a team of skilled talents with the sentiments of "craftsmen of a great country". We innovated the talent training mechanism and established a mechanism for the party committee to serve outstanding young scientific research and technical talents. Members of the company's two-level party committees directly contacted and trained 260 outstanding talents. Implement the "Digital Well Site" project, build 9 digital teams at different levels, adopt intelligent control and automated data mining series technologies, upgrade the intelligent fracturing and logging system, promote "one-click operation" at the production site, and improve the operational capabilities and capabilities of individual teams. Human-machine benefits.







