Customer Success Story: Bohr Instrument Services

• Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
• Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Middleware, SDKs & Libraries

• Oil & Gas

• Process Manufacturing

• Process Control & Optimization
• Remote Asset Management

• Software Design & Engineering Services
• System Integration

Bohr Instrument Services needed a system to monitor and control all the operations of drilling rigs for oil and gas producing companies. The system needed to collect data in real time and monitor all the extreme forces on a drill bit while providing the drilling operator with multiple graphical data monitors. The system also needed to communicate this data to two locations; the drill floor and remote offices. The many parameters that needed to be logged and converted into other parameters demanded a software system that could process an unlimited amount of real-time data from a variety of inputs.

Bohr Instrument Services is a company that provides drilling systems for oil and gas producing companies worldwide. These companies explore both land and sea to produce oil and market their products globally under their corporate brand names. Many of these companies use Drill-Pro Systems by Bohr BV. On exploration sites worldwide, these oil companies have installed a Bohr “DRILL-PRO” System with ICONICS software to monitor and control all the operations of the drilling rig.

Bohr Instrument Services selected ICONICS GENESIS32™ software suite with GraphWorX™32, TrendWorX™32 and AlarmWorX™32. This suite of software tools is installed on a Bohr DRILL-PRO Total Drilling Information System, which is an extensive data acquisition system for oil and gas rigs. The DRILL-PRO package gathers data from digital and analog rig site sensors via a PLC data acquisition unit. It uses a direct RS-232 serial connection between the DRILL-PRO System, interfaced to a Modbus server and Nyquist PLC. The operator PC collects data and is transmitted to two locations; the drill floor, where an operator views the graphic representation of the data on an 18” monitor, and to remote offices. This drill floor HMI monitor communicates with the data acquisition module (DAQ) to pass on information concerning screen types, scales, alarm limits and manual entries by the operator (depth, bit depth, pump efficiency etc.). The same real-time data is communicated wirelessly via an 802.11b network protocol to three separate computers in the engineering and project management offices.

• The ICONICS GENESIS32 system provides the ability to do “vertical trending”. Data collected at the drill head and sent to the engineering and management offices’ computers are stored in triple redundancy in a Microsoft Access™ database.
• This data is “persistent trended” and stored in RAM memory for immediate access, along with “historical trended” data, which is stored on their hard drives for analysis.
• Other advantages of the ICONICS software system are the ease of use, ease of setting up screens and the extensive visualization display capabilities for the operators to view real-time data.