Drilling Standards Reconciliation Using Automated Bridging Documents
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Solution Overview
Problem
The process of unifying diverse design and operational requirements from different participants in a drilling project often leads to time delays and cost variances due to differing understandings of drilling standards and criteria, making it a time-consuming and costly endeavor to achieve project success.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method for bridging standards documents by indexing, matching, and comparing key characteristics across various participant documents, generating a unified bridging standards document that reconciles differences and provides more stringent operational parameters for drilling projects, which can be used by design tools and equipment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual reconciliation of standards and requirements from different participants is performed, then understanding and agreement on drilling standards can be achieved, but the process becomes time-consuming and costly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the manual mechanical process of reviewing and reconciling standards with an automated computer-based system. The computer automatically indexes, compares, and identifies discrepancies between different participants' standards documents, eliminating the need for manual review while maintaining accurate identification of standard variations and requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service by automatically performing the reconciliation process without requiring human intervention for each comparison. The computer independently indexes documents, compares standards, identifies discrepancies, and generates reports, allowing the system to serve itself in the reconciliation task while providing results to users.
2Reliability
If comprehensive standards review is conducted to ensure all requirements are met, then project criteria can be satisfied, but the process becomes costly and complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the comprehensive standards review process into distinct automated steps: indexing standards documents, comparing key characteristics, identifying discrepancies, and generating reports. Each step is handled separately by the computer system, making the overall complex process manageable and systematic while ensuring all project criteria are thoroughly reviewed.
Solution Approach 2:
The computer-based system acts as an intermediary between different participants' standards documents. It automatically mediates the comparison process, objectively identifying discrepancies and variations without human bias, and provides a neutral platform for reconciling different standards and requirements.
3Measurement precision
If detailed comparison of all standards documents is performed, then accurate identification of discrepancies is achieved, but the process requires significant time and resources
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by having the computer automatically index and organize all standards documents before comparison begins. Key characteristics and parameters are pre-identified and structured in the indexing phase, so that the subsequent comparison process can quickly and accurately identify discrepancies without manual analysis of entire documents.
Data Source
AI summary
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.