Topic News: How can scientific research be closer to the market?

Scientific research is market-oriented: perfect mechanism and two-way communication

Dr. Zhang Xianbin entered the Bohai Drilling Postdoctoral Research Station in 2011, and signed a labor contract with Bohai Drilling after leaving the station in 2014. Speaking of the Drilling Fluid R&D Center, he felt the most deeply: what the market needs is the direction of scientific research. His R&D team undertook the "Ten Major Auxiliary Projects", and achieved industrial production of 7 products within one year, and quickly conducted tests and promoted applications on site. This made Zhang Xianbin and his team very happy.

The Drilling Fluid R&D Center is a talent highland of Bohai Drilling Mud Company. Whether the role of each scientific researcher can be maximized is related to the scientific and technological innovation ability, the implementation of the market development strategy, and the development direction of the company.

In order to make the best use of talents, Bohai Drilling Mud Company has formulated a complete set of experimental process solidification mechanisms, scientific research personnel quality improvement mechanisms and scientific research results transformation mechanisms. Every person who enters the R&D center will receive pre-job training and education, familiarize themselves with basic knowledge such as experimental procedures, safe operations, and treatment agent performance. Through standardized formulas and standardized operations, each researcher will grow rapidly. In order to maximize the enthusiasm of researchers, the company strengthens incentives and constraints, formulates scientific and technological management methods, and rewards project teams with outstanding results. An important part of education and training is to change the concept, so that R&D personnel can understand that project research is not the purpose, and that shelving results is the biggest waste. The transformation and application of results, and ultimately becoming productivity, is the ultimate goal of the drilling fluid R&D center.

Scientific and technological research and development serves on-site construction, and on-site construction promotes scientific research upgrades. The R&D center innovatively implements the "big scientific research" model of "white coats" and "red work clothes". R&D personnel stay on-site with results to test the R&D effects; mud engineers come to experiment with construction problems to verify the formula that best suits construction needs. Two-way communication promotes the effective integration of scientific research and the site, and the speed of results transformation is significantly accelerated. Innovatively develop the R&D data collection system, and the researchers enter the experimental data into the system, so that the project members can "share data with one click of the mouse", and set different permissions for relevant personnel, which not only effectively prevents leaks, but also greatly improves the R&D efficiency.

Scientific research adapts to the market: understand the needs and continuously optimize

In recent years, Bohai Drilling Mud Company has successively developed three high-end drilling fluid systems, BH-WEI, BH-OBM, and BH-KSM, which have been applied to nearly 300 wells in more than 10 oil and gas areas at home and abroad, solving more than 10 technical problems such as piedmont wells, complex structure wells, and difficult wells, and achieved revenue of 563 million yuan. Among them, the BH-WEI and BH-OBM drilling fluid systems have successfully passed the appraisal of the group company.

Going against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat. If you want to be invincible in the market competition, you can't do without the improvement and upgrading of the project. In recent years, the R&D center has successively optimized and upgraded the three drilling fluid systems, conducted research and analysis with the technical department, and formulated 11 construction technology templates for different systems and different blocks. During the construction process, the formula ratio, feeding sequence and performance data were continuously optimized to make it more adaptable to construction needs.

During the development of high-temperature oil-based drilling fluid treatment agents, the on-site application effect of the product has not met expectations, and six or seven well slurry samples have been replaced without success. For this reason, Zhang Kun, a master who graduated from Nankai University, and mud engineers worked together to find the crux of the problem, optimize the experimental process, and finally successfully completed the indoor test at the end of 2014. The test results show that the performance of this product is consistent with similar foreign products. This marks that the mud company has successfully mastered the core technology of a high-end product. In July 2015, Zhang Kun went deep into the production workshop and worked in a workshop at 45 degrees Celsius for 2 months. In the end, 300 tons of oil-based emulsifiers were produced, all of which were qualified.

In addition, the mud company actively adapted to the market, actively understood the cutting-edge information of the market, and continuously improved the construction of the industrial chain. It has successively transformed and upgraded projects such as plugging technology and drilling fluid harmless treatment technology.