Drilling-risk alerts, ranked by severity. Caught autonomously, the moment a threshold trips.

Well

Well 14H

fictional example well

Basin

Permian — Delaware

W TX / SE NM shelf

Target formation

Wolfcamp A / B

also monitoring Bone Spring

Last update

2026-08-03 18:42 UTC

mock feed, refreshed nightly

1. Critical

   2026-08-03 18:42 UTC

   Type · Pressure-transient spike

   Formation · Wolfcamp B

   Surface pressure climbed 340 psi in 11 minutes

   Surface pressure climbed from 2,800 to 3,140 psi over 11 minutes while choke held steady. Rate dropped 6%. Signature consistent with a near-wellbore water breakthrough — falling through the perforation cluster, not isolated to a single stage.

   AI-suggested action — Reduce choke by 8% and hold 12 minutes while a freshrate sample stabilizes — page the night foreman if pressure does not relax within 15 minutes.

2. Elevated

   2026-08-03 17:28 UTC

   Type · Casing pressure drift

   Formation · Wolfcamp A

   Casing pressure trended 80 psi above baseline on the A-annulus

   Casing pressure on the A-annulus has trended 80 psi above the running baseline across the last 90 minutes — well below the 250-psi alarm threshold, but a consistent monotonic drift. Likely a slow pack-off or a packing-element seating issue, not a barrier breach.

   AI-suggested action — Pull off bottom and circulate two bottoms up before resuming drilling — re-torque the pack-off while circulating.

3. Elevated

   2026-08-03 15:51 UTC

   Type · Microseismic event cluster

   Formation · Wolfcamp B

   31 low-magnitude events clustered around stage 14

   31 low-magnitude events (Mw −1.4 to −0.6) clustered in a 220 m radius around stage 14, 12,400–12,540 ft. Mechanism consistent with a reactivated fracture network during the last flowback bump. No felt seismicity at surface; below the 3.0 Mw reporting threshold.

   AI-suggested action — Pause stage 14 stimulation and re-evaluate fracture geometry with completions before the next injection cycle opens.

4. Watch

   2026-08-03 13:09 UTC

   Type · Injected-volume anomaly

   Formation · Wolfcamp A

   Injection volume 12% above offset wells on the same stage

   Injection volume on stage 22 is running 12% above the offset-well average for the same stage number across the pad. Pressure response is normal. Most likely a meter calibration drift or a frac stage matching issue, not a subsurface leak-off signal.

   AI-suggested action — Cross-check the injection meters at the manifold and reconcile against the offset well baseline before the operator escalates the alarm.

5. Watch

   2026-08-03 11:34 UTC

   Type · Bit-vibration spike

   Formation · Wolfcamp A

   Axial-vibration envelope exceeded baseline by 2.1× at 11,860 ft

   Axial-vibration envelope exceeded the rolling 4-hour baseline by 2.1× for 6 minutes during the connection at 11,860 ft. Stick-slip signature — not a formation hardness change. No downhole tool failure code, but trend is rising.

   AI-suggested action — Reduce weight-on-bit by 1,500 lbf and bump rotary speed up 10% to clear the stick-slip regime before the next connection.

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