Recent Trends in Computer Application in Industrial Fields and How to Apply Its Technology to Oil Drilling Field

Abstract

It is about thirty years since computer application started in the industrial fields such as steel plant, power plant, and refinery plant. Today computers have prevailed in all kinds of industial fields and we cannot think of their operation without using computers.
On the other hand, in the field of oil drilling, there exist many problems against computer applications, such as geogruphical distribution of rigs, difficulty of mechanical automation, instrumentations and estimation of underground gelogical conditions, and so computer application cannot be said to be more advanced than that in the other industries.
This paper outlines today's feature of computer application in industrial fields, especially concerning seeds technology such as distributed and totalized system configuration technology, man machine interface, artificial intelligence, simulation, process control and database and how these technologies can be applied to the drilling field.