Influx and loss, estimated from the surface

Drilling. The kick before the pit.

Influx and loss rate estimated from the channels every rig already records, ranked against their look-alikes: ballooning, connections, pump ramps, sensor faults. Built and scored in simulation against flow-back fingerprinting and a lumped observer; the results stay here. Advisory only. A person decides.

The family

Seven products. One engine.

How they fit together

Read. Estimate. Rehearse.

Read

The surface channels and the rig state.

Mode

Estimate

Influx and loss with an interval, against the look-alikes.

Gain · Balloon · Limit · Check

Rehearse

Drills and the sequence. The driller acts.

Rehearse · Sequence
The engine

Boundary observers on the drillstring–annulus U-tube; unknown-input estimation by a signature bank and constrained moving-horizon least squares

Same engine family as Wavepin, moved from the pipe to the annulus.

25.1 bblgained when the alarm comes, median
7.2 minfrom influx start to alarm, median
1.0false flow checks per 100 rig-hours
1 %of ballooning wells read as influx

Tournament t001, 1500 held-out simulated two-hour drilling runs (557 with influx) on a 3,000 m well, alarm thresholds frozen at 2 % false flow checks per run on validation; ballooning never seen in training. The bar and the result are on the proof page. All the numbers →

The film

The whole story in 82 seconds

Where it fits

Built for the assets you run

Offshore floaters

Subsea BOP, heave.

Jack-ups

Shallow water, conventional returns.

Onshore pads

Conventional rigs, no MPD.

HPHT and geothermal

Narrow windows.

Drilling contractors

One method across the fleet.

The rest of the harness

Same engine, other assets.

All of the Oil Operations Harness ↗

Annulus — Drilling. The kick before the pit.