Drilling for heat comes with its own set of challenges, demanding rigour in planning and execution to assure success in a sensitive commercial environment. Best practice, derived from lessons learned on the world’s most challenging wells ensures drilling projects are developed sustainably.
Challenging projects need rock-solid definition and a deep understanding of risk to ensure that engineers create solutions which preserve or enhance value. Merlin’s team of creative problem-solvers are on-hand to support your requirements in each of our core service areas.
Better trained people make better decisions. It is really that simple. If the plan is pushing the team out of their comfort zone, time in the classroom learning about the fundamentals and talking through critical success factors will improve reliability of well delivery.
Execution is make-or-break time. Effort and energy expended during planning needs to be harnessed and directed to assure operational success. Merlin can support your field operations with people that have real expertise and experience, and have the know-how and energy to drive success within your team.
Merlin brings expertise, experience and energy to your drilling project. We know what works – we do it day after day, all over the globe.
With no ties to external businesses or parent companies, Merlin is agile and able to provide truly independent advice tailored to specific project requirements. From engineering consultation, through training, to operational support. All from a team that is personally invested in mutual success and focussed on ensuring Merlin’s clients get the best possible fit for their purpose.
As reserves become smaller and more difficult to access, extended reach and complex wells become ever-more important enabling techniques to exploit hydrocarbons which otherwise would be uneconomic to produce. Our holistic methodology reduces drilling and completion costs, improves production rates and can help to minimize environmental impact of operations – extending the productive life of existing fields and reducing the requirement for further exploration.
Clients leverage our knowledge and techniques to make challenging wells simple, marginal projects economical and problematic operations trouble-free. Success comes from Merlin’s back-to-basics systems approach that integrates engineering fundamentals with tried and tested risk management techniques. The results speak for themselves with lower drilling costs, fewer problems, more production sooner and an up-skilled workforce with ever-increasing confidence, desire and ability to design and deliver challenging wells.
Merlin has an enviable track record of delivering value to clients through bringing additional reserves on stream without equipment upgrades with wells previously perceived as impossible. Merlin is a professional engineering consultancy and member of the UK Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).
We provide objective advice and recommendations which allow clients to assess whether the risk and cost profile is acceptable and worthy of investment. Merlin’s advice is driven by what is required to deliver a successful project based on proven engineering concepts rather than conflict of interest such as tool rental revenue.
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