The Applications Of Three-dimensional Virtual Technology In Drilling Operations

Oil and gas resources are important strategic resources to protect national security. Inrecent years, due to the deterioration of the international environment and economicdevelopment, so the crude oil prices is rising, the production of large state-owned oil fieldsis gradual decline, so to exploit the existing cell block, thin reservoir, low permeabilityreservoirs has become the primary means to guarantee of energy supply. So advanceddrilling technology and the strengthening of the technical training of drilling workers isimminent. With the development of the computer, computer has become an essential aid ofvarious industries, with the continuous development of computer hardware and softwaretechnology, the virtual reality technology develop rapidly, and applied in variousindustries. The oil industry is a high-risk and high investment industry, in the process oftraining of technical staff every year spend a lot of manpower and resources.The Author has made a full investigation on the current development of computergraphics and new technology and gotten in-depth understanding of existing virtualizationtechnology. The Author selected the appropriate development tools and platforms and didsome research on the selection of development platforms and methods. 3ds max softwarewas taken advantage of for modeling. Programing was in the VB2008 languagedevelopment environment with OpenGL language for virtual drilling softwaredevelopment. After studying the commonly used tools and equipment for drilling the wellsite, use 3ds max software modeling for the tools and equipments and save the results forthe 3ds format file. the 3ds file was dealed with view3ds software resulting in h files andthe gl files. In VB2008 environment, the processed data was read by Tao software to writeOpenGL statement to set the angle, lighting, etc. to achieve three-dimensional model ofthe well field in the VB environment. OpenGL language in VB2008 environment was usedfor programming to control three-dimensional model. Then drill string lifting and fall,simple simulation of the drilling site and the establishment of a wellsite roaming anddatabase of tools were all achieved.