by Juliana Bond | Aug, 2020 | 2020, homepage
The LOAT (Level of Automation Taxonomy) is a useful tool for assessing Drilling Systems Automation (DSA). The process is derived from the Aviation industry and adapted for the drilling industry with permission from DSA Roadmap. The LOAT chart below shows, in the...
by Juliana Bond | Jul, 2020 | 2020, homepage
In our collective experience, of nearly 100 years of working across eight Operators’ organisations, no well’s AFE has ever carried provision for blowouts nor for serious well control incidents. However, for the drilling of every well, series of wells or development,...
by Juliana Bond | Jun, 2020 | 2020, homepage
Safe Influx has now developed a model to assist Operators and other clients in assessing their forward-looking risked costs associated with well control. This can be applied to a single well, a series of wells, or indeed a field development. Safe Influx has developed...
by Juliana Bond | May, 2020 | 2020, homepage
In this OGV Energy Technology and Innovation Podcast, Safe Influx Managing Director Bryan Atchison talks about our revolutionary Automated Well Control technology. Listen to the full interview here.
by Juliana Bond | Apr, 2020 | 2020, homepage
The upstream petroleum industry stands alone in its resistance to change. All other high-risk industries such as aviation, rail signalling, and nuclear industries have adopted automation to improve Process Safety and dramatically reduce the probability of a Major...
by Juliana Bond | Apr, 2020 | 2020, homepage
Unexpected events and experience along the way can change the course of one’s life. That’s what Safe Influx’s co-founders Bryan Atchison and Phil Hassard discovered after witnessing the worst ever offshore disaster in 1988. Industry tragedies motivate innovation Bryan...
