Pad Drilling Program

A Pad drilling program is a task that creates drilling pads, and allows you to schedule the wells drilled on the pads. Its limitation is that only a single pad can be drilled at a time, no matter how many rigs are available. For more advanced pad construction, see Pad Drilling as Part of a Drilling Program. 
To create a Pad Drilling Program:  
  1. Click on the "Pad Drilling Program" Button on the Scheduler tab 
  1. Enter the name and earliest start date for the Pad Program

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  1. On the Pads Tab, Add a Pad. You can further define the Task Name, Start Date, Pad Name, Facility Type (Field Facility is common), where it flows to and the number of Pads.

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  2. Add any capital phases (e.g., Pad construction, tie-in).

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  3. Setup the drilling program (See Creating a Drilling Program) and Calculate the project.

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  4.  From the Network tab you can see the pad created. Let's say we change the # of Pads to be created to 4 and have it flow to Area A Reporting node. The Network tab will show the 4 pads created (each having 10 wells as specified in the drilling program).

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  5. The Gantt Chart will show you the production of both pads, and wells feeding into the pads.

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You can also specify the conditions (what the maintenance task is dependent on) See Scheduler Conditions.