1. Proceedings
  2. I3M
  3. 2018
  4. MAS
  5. 10.46354/i3m.2018.mas.013

Evaluation of RFID technology for real time drill pipes efficient management in harsh environments: a discrete event simulation model

  • a Yasmina Maizi , 
  • b  Ygal Bendavid   
  • c  Tarik Belarbi   
  • a,b École des Sciences de la Gestion – Université du Québec à Montréal, IoT Lab, CRI2GS
  • c Mystone Energy
Cite as
Maizi Y., Bendavid Y., Belarbi T. (2018). Evaluation of RFID technology for real time drill pipes efficient management in harsh environments: a discrete event simulation model. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Modeling & Applied Simulation (MAS 2018), pp. 83-88. DOI: https://doi.org/10.46354/i3m.2018.mas.013

Abstract

Drilling sites operations in the Oil and Gas industry require multiple assets including mud pumps and drill pipes. The later represents one of the most critical type of assets, since pipes are dig down the surface of the earth up to few km. If one of these drill-pipes breaks, the whole site is compromised and such an incident could cost millions of dollars. In the past few years, RFID technology has been used to improve maintenance operations and prevent such incidence to occur. While the potential of the technology seems very interesting in regards to process efficiency, realistic impacts still need to be assessed and validated in the Oil and Gas field. In this paper we present a simulation model as a way to assess the impact of using such a technology for improving drill-pipes management.

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