Weatherford’s electronic drilling recorder (EDR) can help make drilling a safer, more efficient process. Use the EDR to monitor and analyze data pertinent to drilling optimization, rig maintenance and wellsite safety. Its monitoring capabilities encompass a wide range of drilling parameters and all major rig equipment. Pre-installed software lets you track, organize and analyze the collected data, accessible at wellsite or from offsite locations.

Drilling Efficiency
Weatherford is one of the world’s largest, fastest-growing providers of surface logging services and equipment. Backed by a suite of innovative tools and our global team of surface logging specialists, we offer formation evaluation and drilling optimization services. In both disciplines, the first step to enhancing performance is the accurate and timely measurement of data. Let our advanced EDR and our highly qualified drilling optimization consultants help you take the first step toward enhancing drilling performance. 

Integrated Monitoring
Drilling 
Specialized measuring tools enable you to monitor parameters key to drilling optimization, including: rate of penetration (ROP), weight-on-bit (WOB), standpipe pressure (SPP), torque, casing pressure, pit totals and total gas.
Rig equipment
The EDR’s advanced sensors also let you monitor a range of equipment-related parameters, including the temperatures, speeds and fuel fluid levels of all motors. Monitoring rig equipment enables you to schedule preventative maintenance and thereby minimize costly delays.
Data management 
Our EDR’s robust software package allows you to track, organize and analyze data for maximum benefit. Pre-installed software includes the IADC reporting suite.

Early Kick Detction
The EDR’s pit volume totalizer (PVT) incorporates sensors and customized software that enable early kick detection. Unmonitored, an influx of formation fluid into the well can lead to a blowout. The PVT provides an early warning of this hazard, allowing wellsite personnel time to take proper preventative measures.   

Equipped with a flowback monitor and a specialized software application, our EDR’s PVT can detect a kick even when the mud pumps are off, such as during connections. Many conventional tools are unable to detect a kick when the pit volume increases as a result of flowback—the flow of typically small volumes of drilling mud into the pit when pumping stops. However, the risk of a kick persists when the pumps are off, stemming from the corresponding reduction in equivalent circulation density (ECD). Our EDR’s PVT uses a specialized monitor and software to plot flowback, enabling users to view trends that may be indicative of a kick.  

Data and Service
Wellsite personnel can view all EDR information on a configurable, user-friendly display. Our WellWizard® integrated data system uses Wellsite Information Transfer Specification (WITS) and Wellsite Information Transfer Standards Markup Language (WITSML™). These standard industry communication protocols facilitate effective communication among other service providers. This enables timely on-site and remote access to a wide spectrum of pertinent well information, including additional surface logging data and LWD/MWD measurements. Remote access via Weatherford’s WellHub permits key stakeholders and off-site drilling optimization consultants to access pertinent data and to make critical decisions without incurring the need to travel to the wellsite, saving time and money.