US 2020/0265385 A1 · BRIDGING VARIOUS STANDARDS FOR DRILLING PROJECTS

Abstract

Bridging different standards or requirements documents originating from different participants in a drilling project to unify the standards or requirements provides more efficiencies and cost savings for the drilling project. The standards or requirements may be automatically analyzed to determine which standards or requirements from the participants are to be utilized for a given drilling project to generate a common bridged document of requirements and standards thereby aiding to reduce costs and establish a common understanding of the requirements and standards that are to be met or implemented during the drilling project by all participants. The automatic process may select those standards or requirements, or portions thereof that are more stringent. Moreover, as an additional output of the automated process, output files may be produced that reflect those determined standards, requirements or parameters for subsequent use by standard engineering programs to generate technical parameters and requirements for the drilling project.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method for bridging standards for drilling projects, comprising:

compiling by a computer a bridging standards document comprising a plurality of determined more stringent standards documents, each determined more stringent standards document being related to a different one of a plurality of common drilling document types, each of the plurality of determined more stringent standards documents being determined as more stringent from among a plurality of standards documents, the plurality of standards documents being different standards documents supplied by different participants of a common drilling project;
and
generating by the computer an output file based on the bridging standards document for use by a subsequent design tool or drilling equipment for managing, specifying or controlling the drilling project or the drilling equipment.

A computer-implemented method for bridging standards for drilling projects, comprising:

indexing by a computer a plurality of different standards documents associated with a common drilling project to categorize subject matter contained in each different standards document to produce a plurality of indexed standards documents;
matching by the computer each of the plurality of indexed standards documents to a common drilling document type to identify a type of standard for each indexed standards document;
identifying by the computer key characteristics within each indexed standards document based on the identified type of standard;
determining by the computer which key characteristics are more stringent between a first indexed standards document and at least one other indexed standards document for selecting the more stringent standards document;
and
producing by the computer a bridged standards document that identifies the determined key characteristics and at least one associated selected more stringent standards document, and producing an output file for use by a subsequent design tool for managing, specifying or controlling the drilling project or the output file comprise operational parameters to control equipment related to the drilling project.

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