METHOD AND APPARATUS AND PROGRAM STORAGE DEVICE INCLUDING ANINTEGRATED WELL PLANNING WORKFLOW CONTROL SYSTEM WITH PROCESS DEPENDENCIES

摘要

A method of well planning in an automatic well planning system comprises the steps of: selecting one or more tasks in a task manager; verifying by a task dependency a proper order of the one or more tasks; retrieving by the task manager from a task base one or more sets of instructions associated with th e one or more tasks selected in the task manager and verified by the task dependency; retrieving by the task manager from an access manager one or mor e sets of input data associated with the one or more sets of instructions retrieved by the task manager from the task base; verifying that each set of input data of the one or more sets of input data retrieved by the task manag er from the access manager is received by a corresponding one of the one or mor e sets of instructions retrieved by the task manager from the task base; executing, by the task manager, the one or more sets of instructions and using, by the task manager, the one or more sets of input data during the executing step thereby generating a set of results; and recording or displaying, by a task view base, the set of results on a recorder or display device.