H&P recommended an integrated autonomous solution that would help make economic-driven decisions to reduce drilling time, reduce slide percentage, and deliver a smoother more accurate wellbore.

With H&P’s Bit Guidance System, the operator would be able to employ advanced computer algorithms to make steering decisions automatically, with more consistency, speed, and reliability than human directional drillers alone. This technology helps to remove variability around the directional driller’s decision making, reducing the chance for significant variations in performance. The intelligence from the Bit Guidance System is then automatically executed by AutoSlide® technology, an automated digital control module designed to continuously compensate for formation variability and for the effects of reactive torque.

Our proven technology and trusted expertise drive precision

Our Bit Guidance System makes intelligent decisions based on economics, helping lower drilling costs while increasing production. The AutoSlide® automated drilling platform responds by autonomously executing slides that minimize tortuosity and sliding footage with increased precision. This combination simultaneously delivers better ROP and wellbore quality with continuous economic impact.

AutoSlide® Technology

› Analyzes a host of parameters including well economics, toolface data, drillstring dynamics and much more to optimize sliding and reduce your time to target

› Provides monitoring both onsite as well as from remote operating centers

› Controls drawworks, top drive and mud pump parameters while sliding

H&P recommended an integrated autonomous solution that would help make economic-driven decisions to reduce drilling time, reduce slide percentage, and deliver a smoother more accurate wellbore.

With H&P’s Bit Guidance System, the operator would be able to employ advanced computer algorithms to make steering decisions automatically, with more consistency, speed, and reliability than human directional drillers alone. This technology helps to remove variability around the directional driller’s decision making, reducing the chance for significant variations in performance. The intelligence from the Bit Guidance System is then automatically executed by AutoSlide® technology, an automated digital control module designed to continuously compensate for formation variability and for the effects of reactive torque.

Our proven technology and trusted expertise drive precision

Our Bit Guidance System makes intelligent decisions based on economics, helping lower drilling costs while increasing production. The AutoSlide® automated drilling platform responds by autonomously executing slides that minimize tortuosity and sliding footage with increased precision. This combination simultaneously delivers better ROP and wellbore quality with continuous economic impact.

AutoSlide® Technology

› Analyzes a host of parameters including well economics, toolface data, drillstring dynamics and much more to optimize sliding and reduce your time to target

› Provides monitoring both onsite as well as from remote operating centers

› Controls drawworks, top drive and mud pump parameters while sliding

Every day, oil and gas operations become more complex, with more complicated plays, tighter budgets, and accelerated schedules. It’s why every move an operator makes in every decision must be a calculated one, especially when it comes to steering the bit to specific targets. That’s just what we’ve achieved with AutoSlide technology from H&P.

Manually controlling the orientation of the bit while sliding is a unique and valuable skill held by a limited number of exceptional drillers. The quality and approach to this execution require simultaneous calculations and adjustments, which increases the chance for human error. With AutoSlide, that difficult manual control becomes completely automated, helping to reduce risk and variability by making multiple corrections in real time.

In combination with the H&P bit guidance system automating the decision-making part of the process, the AutoSlide technology’s true single-button execution makes consistent performance possible, adjusting multiple parameters simultaneously. With the touch of a button, this innovative technology controls the rig and mud motors to make hundreds of adjustments in real time through automated proactive controls and the continual compensation for environmental factors, making higher precision decisions, leveraging all available data dynamically to accomplish more repeatable results than even the most experienced human operators, which can lead to cost reduction, maximized production, and increased efficiency. Operations may continue to grow more complex, but the solutions you turn to shouldn’t.

Achieve more intelligent directional drilling with AutoSlide technology from H&P.