Precautionary Procedures in Basrah Oil Fields Drilling Operations Using Smartphones

Drilling Stuck Pipe Prediction in Iranian Oil Fields: An Artificial Neural Network Approach

Mindfulness-Based Safety: Increasing Attention to Task in Alberta’s Oil and Gas Drilling and Completions Operations

With studies demonstrating mind-wandering to be associated with failure to perform monitoring procedural steps, a deficiency in being able to call information to mind, more false alarms, and a reduction in task performance, we cannot afford to continue to overlook the potential impact mind-wandering has on human behavior in high-risk environments within the Alberta oil and gas industry. This pa...

A Real-Time Decision Support System for High Cost Oil-Well Drilling Operations

In this paper we present DrillEdge a commercial and award winning software system that monitors oil-well drilling operations in order to reduce non-productive time (NPT). DrillEdge utilizes case-based reasoning with temporal representations on streaming real-time data, pattern matching and agent systems to predict problems and give advice on how to mitigate the problems. The methods utilized, t...

Applications of CBR in oil well drilling

This overview of different applications of CBR in petroleum engineering is based on a survey and comparative evaluation of different successful applications of CBR. The number of papers and research groups is indicative of importance, need, and growth of CBR in different industries. Application-oriented research in the area of case based reasoning has moved mature research results into practica...

Electromagnetic Fields and the Precautionary Principle

While for substances that may be detrimental to health if incorporated through the skin, or by inhalation or ingestion precautionary procedures have been developed in the past decades that are applied in a transparent and standardised way by health authorities, public health agencies and international organisations in order to protect the public from a potential health hazard, no such procedure...