Drilling Systems Automation: Interoperability and Data Quality

The DSA Roadmap has determined that the rate of Drilling Systems Automation advancement will be driven by a number of “forks in the road”. David Blacklaw addresses a couple of major ‘forks' in this outstanding IADC Drilling Contractor Magazine interview:

-      Standards and Interoperability: “contracted rigs typically come from different contractors and were built with equipment from different vendors, and they rarely interface with any piece of new automation technology in the same way.”

-      Data quality: “Quality of sensors is less of a problem than issues such as how sensors are used, how often they’re calibrated, what standards are used to calibrate them, and how they’re validated or recertified.”