Introducing well control software for CCUS: Enabling safe drilling where a CO₂ plume may infer.

Stavanger – Norway, September 2, 2024 – We’re announcing wellControl CCUS, a version 
of our well control software built to address the risks of CO₂ in infill drilling operations. 

“Together with our partners in the Green Light project, we have investigated and  addressed the knowledge gaps around CO₂ kicks, un-controlled blow-outs, and cooling  effects,” says Sven Inge Ødegaard, eDrilling's COO and Project Manager in Green Light. “Then upgraded the existing well control model to calculate pressure, temperature and  flow rates with inflow and transportation of CO₂ to topside. The uniqueness of this project and software is that it takes into account the interactions between CO₂ and drilling fluids in a well control scenario.”

Adds Caroline Vorpenes, eDrilling's CEO, “At Green Light we have also made the decision with our partners to provide all CCUS drilling engineering software cloud native as microservices, hence democratizing this technology. The objective being to  extract the software's value without having to replace, and rather leverage, legacy systems and equipment. Moreover, not binding yourself to a given services provider. A demand we are hearing more and more from the operators”. 

For more information, please contact Caroline Vorpenes of eDrilling, cv@edrilling.no

About Project Green Light

Green Light is an industry-wide collaboration to provide comprehensive drilling  engineering software giving the "green light" on drilling into underground storage.  Partners in Project Green Light are Equinor, Eni, Shell, Sintef, Noble, Transocean,  BakerHughes, Wild Well Control, EBN, and Gassnova.

About eDrilling

We are an AI-powered energy-tech company with a software portfolio designed to drive  the digital and sustainable transformation of the energy industry. Through technology with purpose, we enable our customers and partners to maximize their contributions to the safety of their employees and operations, their operative efficiency, and subsequently to the health of our planet.