A fluid situation
The complexities of today’s oil and gas reservoirs demand new levels of sophistication for drill fluids, including fluids that improve lubricity and reduce risk and environmental impact...
Downhole shakeup
Rumblings, from surface to TD, are omnipresent throughout a drilling operation. From long-reach horizontal wells onshore the US to the deepest offshore wells around the world, shock and vibration takes...
Ensuring reliability, and proving it
From reliability-centered maintenance programs to integrated sensors to advanced risk modeling, the drilling industry is dedicating more resources than ever to ensuring the integrity of its assets...
Rally in the North Sea
Despite myriad challenges such as rising costs, mature fields and increasingly tougher regulations, the European drilling market continues to exhibit strength in terms of contract backlogs, rig utilization and a general feeling of...
Extreme drilling drives drill pipe innovations
Drill pipe, like everything else in well construction, is rapidly evolving to match an ever-expanding operational window. Whether operators are drilling longer laterals in resource plays, launching high-stakes...
Additional Features
Real-time drilling service halts twist-offs in Wolfcamp wells
An operator in the Permian Basin requested Baker Hughes to provide a real-time drilling performance service due to numerous drill string twist-offs occurring on both...
Automated well control: Industry gets ready for 20,000 psi and beyond
The drilling industry continues to push the limits of its technologies in order to access deeper, hotter, higher-pressure reservoirs. As the industry moves toward drilling...
Offshore Drilling & Technology Briefs: OMV details Barents Sea success; CSB report cites pipe buckling as cause of BOP failure in Macondo
Understanding the risk factors and what are the “unknowns” when drilling in uncharted areas is key to a safe and successful operation. Far north in the Barents Sea...
Rolling PDC cutter enhances drill bit life in Granite Wash runs
Recent advances in diamond bonding techniques and manufacturing processes have enabled the industry to produce highly abrasion-resistant polycrystalline diamond cutters...
The July/August 2014 issue of Drilling Contractor features topics such as IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, Innovating While Drilling, Regional Focus: North Sea, Well Control, Asset Integrity, Completions, Health, Safety, Environment and Training, and Drilling & Completion Briefs.
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Recent Drilling News
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01 August 2014
Fugro’s real-time helideck monitoring aids operational planning, safety
Fugro has developed and delivered a new fully integrated helideck monitoring system to Diamond Offshore’s Ocean Guardian in the North Sea. Severe...
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31 July 2014
Eni discovers gas and condensates offshore Gabon
Eni has made a gas and condensates discovery in the Nyonie Deep exploration prospect in block D4, approximately 13 km offshore Gabon and 50 km from the capital city Libreville...
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31 July 2014
Blue Ocean Technologies: Subsea well intervention completed in 6,700- ft record depth
Blue Ocean Technologies has set multiple records in subsea well intervention by intervening in, and subsequently plugging and abandoning, a production gas...
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30 July 2014
Fugro’s DeepData pod provides data for deepwater riser monitoring
Fugro has delivered a motion dataset from the BOP stack and lower riser of two deepwater wells in the Barents Sea using its DeepData pods. The DeepData pods...
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28 July 2014
SDI completes 500th MagTraC MWD Ranging project
Scientific Drilling International (SDI) has completed the 500th MagTraC MWD Ranging project. MagTraC was introduced in 1998 to target challenging applications...
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