GEOTHERMAL
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.
Engineering
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.
Training Courses
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.
Operations
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.
Why work with us?
Merlin brings expertise, experience and energy to your drilling project. We know what works – we do it day after day, all over the globe.
Enhance Project Value
Oil, gas or hot water in the flow line is the ultimate end point. The quicker it gets there the better, as time to first sale often has a disproportionate effect on project value. Our core competence helps you reduce well duration, which gets the sellable product to market more quickly.
Improve Delivery Reliability
Drilling delays are expensive in terms of extra CAPEX and value loss through deferred sales. They can erode stakeholder confidence and affect team morale. Merlin provides delivery assurance to ensure that project milestones are met, operations are managed within budgets and there is confidence across the organisation that the team will deliver according to plan.
Apply Enabling Technology
Thinking about a managed pressure drilling system or using the latest intelligent RSS? We can help you identify the right tool for the job, from the myriad options out there to increase your effective drilling radius or manage challenges with depleted reservoirs.
Defer Abandonment
Accessing remote resources from a nearby installation is one way to sustainably improve the ultimate recovery of a field. Incremental hydrocarbons can keep facilities open longer, maximising the lifespan of an asset and avoiding the need for new facility construction.
Drill Further Without Equipment Upgrades
Increasing your drilling radius gives the subsurface team more options when planning ongoing field development. Merlin can help you define a maximum drilling radius for your facility and if necessary, help with the specification of equipment upgrades to exceed current limits in the most cost efficient manner possible.
Apply Industry-leading Best Practises
High performing teams follow procedures to integrate their learning into ongoing operations. Utilise the same tools, processes and systems employed on the world's most complex wells to assure a positive outcome for your project.
Employee owned since 2017
We are world-class drilling engineering advisors, collaborators, and educators – specialising in delivery assurance for extended reach and complex wells. Established in 2007, we have helped clients successfully deliver over 550 projects in 52 countries.
Merlin is an independent partner you can trust
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.
We would love to support you on your next project
Merlin Methodology
Continuous improvement cycle
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.
CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT:
- End of well reports
- Problem reviews
- After action reviews
ENGINEERING SUPPORT:
- Offset well reviews
- Feasibility studies
- Wellbore stability studies
- Detailed design reviews
- Procedure reviews
- Drilling manuals or guides
- MPD equipment and rig selection
- DWOP support or facilitation
TRAINING:
- High angle drilling engineering and operations
- Stuck pipe prevention
- MPD team readiness assessments
- Online self-guided or instructor led options
OPERATIONS SUPPORT:
- Office engineering support during execution phase
- Rig site operations support (ERD or MPD)
- Remote operations support
- Rig crew on the job coaching
- Drilling optimisation
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