Research on 3D Dynamic Well Control Virtual Reality System

Abstract

With the exploration and development of various oil and gas wells, the underground pressures in new and old blocks are becoming more and more complex, and the risk of well control is increasing. Well control training is an effective way to improve the well control quality and well control safety awareness of operators. Based on the HTC VIVE Pro development kit and high-performance VR workstation, this paper combines virtual reality technology to realize 3D dynamic well control simulation of oil and gas wells. The system can realize the three-level well control operation training and assessment, corresponding data flow, and the function of predicting and simulating the well control risk of the new exploration point based on the actual well data. So complex well control operations and limited field training become simplification, visualization, contextualization and operation. It can be used for drilling engineering and oil well operation technicians, on-site engineering supervision reference and training, and can also be used for drilling and analysis of emergency plans.