Trends and Prospects in Intelligent Drilling Technology
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (21 November 2022) | Viewed by 8291
Special Issue Editors
Interests: drilling technology
Interests: dynamics of drilling engineering
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Dear Colleagues,
Even though the rapid progress in drilling technology has reduced drilling costs significantly in the past ten years, the cost of drilling is still more than that of other operations in the exploration and development of oil and gas. With the application of high-tech solutions for exploration and development, petroleum science and technology will gain informative, intelligent, and visual approaches in the upcoming years. Future drilling technology will be more precise, efficient, and intelligent; less costly; and more environmentally friendly. With the further development of new materials, detection controls, microelectronics, telecommunications, computers, robots, and ultramicrotechniques, new intelligent drilling technologies will emerge and become the main development direction of drilling technologies in the 21st century. Along with the continual development and integrative utilization of these technologies, new intelligent drilling technology will be realized and applied in the future.
This Special Issue is devoted to trends and prospects in intelligent drilling technology. Potential topics include but are not limited to:
- New understandings of intelligent drilling technology;
- The prospective intelligent drilling technology of tomorrow;
- New trends in vibration and well trajectory control;
- Measurement and data processing;
- Measurement while drilling;
- Information management systems;
- Drilling fluid management and disposal.
Dr. Baochang Liu
Dr. Qilong Xue
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- new understanding of intelligent drilling technology
- a prospective intelligent drilling technology of tomorrow
- new trends in vibration and well trajectory control
- measurement and data processing
- measurement while drilling
- information management and systems
- drilling fluid management & disposal
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