Future Operating Model for a Drilling & Completion Control Room

Faced with rapidly increasing activity, an upstream operator set the future vision and designed the operating model for their new remote well construction operations center to ensure 24/7 monitoring, technical advisory and traceable decisions.
Operating Model for a Wells Drilling & Completion Control Room
Short-term Growth Plan
100+ new wells planned over the next years
Continuous Operations View
24/7 continuous visibility across well operations
Phase One Team Model
New roles and responsibilities defined to integrate +20 positions
Critical Process Review
6 critical drilling & completions processes reviewed and redefined to integrate the operations center
Operating Model for a Wells Drilling & Completion Control Room
A real-time room model for efficient and consistent well decisions
Operating room: 24/7 monitoring without replacing field control
Objectives
Define the room’s role, scope and governance, future business processes and technology requirements
Opportunity
Scale activity with faster, more efficient and consistent operational decisions
Scaling well construction decisions

Higher activity demanded more integrated real-time support

Key Challenges
Rising activity 250+ wells were planned over three years
Rising activity
100+ wells were planned over the next years
Distributed monitoring Real-time visibility was not continuous
Distributed monitoring
Real-time visibility was not continuous
Data variability Quality gaps limited reliable analysis
Data variability
Quality gaps limited reliable analysis
Decision dependency Outcomes relied heavily on individual expertise
Decision dependency
Outcomes relied heavily on individual expertise
Solution

A hybrid operating room model to enable real-time monitoring, field advisory, decision traceability and escalation.

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Current State Analysis

Understanding of existing business processes, pain points and technology stack to identify baseline and future opportunities.

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Future Vision

Definiton and alignment of the future vision and business objectives across leadership and operating roles.

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Operating Model

Defined scope, roles and decision governance together with future business processes and operating room sizing to unlock business value.

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Initiative Prioritization

Identification of technology initiatives required to enable the operating model and prioritization to develop high-level roadmap.

Impact
Consistent, scalable operations

The model strengthened visibility, coordination and traceability

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