Patent ID: 8036866

Claim:
A method of drilling a wellbore, comprising: obtaining raw drilling data and information which collectively represents captured and stored organizational drilling experience including drilling knowledge and drilling experience; providing an ontology of defined concepts and relationships which relate to and describe drilling operations; organizing said raw drilling data and information into a database in accordance with said ontology and in a data processing format; providing an interface constructed of data processing instructions in a data processing format for receiving operator queries based upon user-specified criteria and for relevant or analogous knowledge or experience as an output in a human-readable format; loading said database and said interface into at least one data processing system; receiving at least one user query relating to a particular drilling situation and in user-specified criteria; utilizing said at least one data processing system to retrieve from said database relevant or analogous drilling knowledge or experience utilizing said ontology and said user-specified criteria; utilizing said interface to provide said relevant or analogous drilling knowledge or experience to an operator; utilizing said relevant or analogous drilling knowledge or experience to make drilling decisions during drilling operations.