With president and CEO Stephen Colville at the helm, IADC recently introduced the Red Thread, an accordion-style document and HTML5 app that details how IADC will achieve its core goal of catalyzing improved performance for the drilling industry...
Just as wells have become longer and more complex, drill pipe is not what it used to be. Improved steel grades and connections for conventional pipe, advanced materials for extreme environments, wired drill pipe...
Picture Latin America as a quilt. In unison, the pieces come together to form a vibrant and vast region, but separately, every patch tells a story all its own. “Each country has different needs and challenges regarding...
Like the path that has been taken to achieve safer operations, industry has come a long way in improving its environmental performance, taking incremental steps that are adding up to significant change...
Hydrocarbon production is a risky business, and nowhere is this more evident than in the deepest, darkest waters on the planet, where some of the brightest prospects for the future lie miles beneath the surface. High pressures and temperatures, extended laterals and unstable reservoirs are...
It is rare for a major catastrophe to occur in isolation. Typically, major accidents are not caused by a single failure but by multiple failures occurring in sequence...
Traditional well control training teaches critical skills needed to recognize and prevent wellbore influx, such as recognizing pore pressure fluctuations...
In the ongoing push for more rig automation, Canrig Drilling Technology has developed a computer-based fuel management...
Unlike underbalanced (UBD), managed pressure drilling (MPD) operations are sometimes “taken lightly” due to its nature of being slightly above or at balance...
The March/April 2013 issue of Drilling Contractor features topics such as Completions: Cementing, Drill Pipe, Regional Focus: Latin America, Innovating While Drilling, Coiled Tubing, Environmental Stewardship, and Well Control.
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Over the next decade, as much as 75% to 80% of BP's majority group capital expenditure will be spent in upstream...
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Pursuing further growth in its US offshore portfolio, Statoil has sanctioned its fourth field development in the Gulf of Mexico...
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Serko Sarian, telemetry and conveyance portfolio manager for Schlumberger, talks with Drilling Contractor...
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National oil companies (NOCs) continue to assume an increasingly meaningful role in the oil and gas industry...
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Dual-gradient technology continues to gain attention as an important solution to deepwater drilling and...