Timely alerts for preventive action
Exebenus Spotter Stuck Pipe Agent
The Stuck Pipe Agent focuses on key drilling hazards—differential sticking, mechanical sticking and hole cleaning—and analyzes real-time surface data to detect deteriorating conditions. Warnings are provided within minutes and sometimes hours of the event, giving rig crews sufficient time to take action.
Real-time surface data is all our agents need to predict high-risk conditions that, without intervention, could result in costly stuck pipe situations.
Key benefits
Delivers reliable stuck pipe warnings, with fewer than one false warning per 24 hours of operation
Provides consistently reliable and actionable analysis
Ensures 24/7 situational awareness for continuous risk monitoring
Identifies and evaluates root causes of hazardous conditions
Prevent costly delays in future operations
ML agents used to analyze historical real-time or offset well data often reveal unreported near-misses and potential risks. These actionable insights provide guidance for improving performance and preventing similar hazards in future operations.
Differential Sticking
Static friction
Detects abnormal static friction in the wellbore, a condition commonly associated with differential sticking.
Mechanical Sticking
Dynamic friction
Identifies abnormal dynamic friction, typically caused by key seating, cuttings accumulation, unstable formations, or other factors restricting pipe movement.
Hole Cleaning
Fluid friction
Detects abnormal fluid friction, often resulting from cuttings accumulation in the wellbore, or by swelling or unstable formations.
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Stronger together
Exebenus Spotter agents are available as standalone solutions, or they can be deployed in bundles, creating powerful synergies that enhance drilling efficiency.
An effective duo
The Stuck Pipe Agent’s Hole Cleaning Model and the ROP Agent form an effective duo when deployed together. The Hole Cleaning Model ensures optimal cuttings removal, thus preventing stuck pipe incidents and maintaining wellbore stability. The ROP Agent can, in turn, accelerate the rate of penetration.
Together, the two agents optimize the drilling process by reducing downtime, preventing formation damage, and increasing the speed and safety of well construction.
Case study
Rig crew gets two-hour warning to mitigate and prevent stuck pipe
In this historical analysis from a land operation in the Middle East, the Stuck Pipe Agent was used to gather insights and lessons learned following a stuck pipe event. The well had a high dogleg and a drop in inclination from 15 to 9 degrees in this specific risk section. The analysis showed that the agent’s Differential Sticking Model detected hole restrictions approximately two hours before the stuck pipe incident (A) occurred. Despite reaming prior to the risk zone, the Hole Cleaning Model continued to issue alerts (B) for potential hole cleaning issues, and the Mechanical Sticking Model flagged high dynamic friction (C).
Had the Stuck Pipe Agent been deployed during drilling, the monitoring team could have alerted the rig crew in real time, evaluated reaming effectiveness, and used the two-hour warning to mitigate the situation, likely preventing the stuck pipe situation.
