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US land rig count falls by four, offshore grows by two

Jul 21, 2017

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Oil & Gas Authority, Lloyd’s Register initiate strategy to revitalize UKCS oil and gas exploration

Jul 21, 2017

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Rig for Sonoro’s Budong Budong project on schedule for transport

Jul 19, 2017

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Significant oil discovery made with Zama-1 well offshore Mexico

Jul 19, 2017

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Noble Corp announces management change

Jul 18, 2017

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GE Marine, Maersk Drilling expand their digital partnership

Jul 17, 2017

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US total rig count holds steady

Jul 14, 2017

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Zinke announces 76 million acres offered in GOM region-wide oil and gas lease sale

Jul 14, 2017

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Seadrill announces contract award for West Saturn drillship in Brazil

Jul 13, 2017

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In This Issue

Figure 1 shows types of underground hydrocarbon storage facilities, including depleted reservoirs, aquifers and salt cavern formations. Significant features of an underground storage reservoir include its capacity to hold natural gas for future use and the rate at which gas inventory can be withdrawn, described as its deliverability rate.

New section milling technology designed for restricted IDs restores access to leached area of cavern in highly abrasive Texas salt dome

Jul 3, 2017

Figure 3 (left): Cross-fire from failed valves intensified the complexity of source control planning and operation.

Fire on closely spaced six-well pad illustrates heightened need for well control risk mitigation in pad drilling

Jul 3, 2017

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From the President: With eyes on a better future, IADC forges ahead with student chapters, advocacy

Jul 3, 2017

IADC President Jason McFarland (right) and IBP Secretary-General Milton Costa Filho signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on 4 May at the 2017 OTC in Houston. The MOU establishes a framework through which the organizations will cooperate to improve the upstream oil and gas industry in Brazil.

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Jul 3, 2017

The industry’s incident rates have been steadily improving, but to get to the holy grail of zero incidents, a new safety approach must be considered, Warren Hubler, Vice President-HSE for Helmerich and Payne, said at the 2017 IADC Drilling Onshore Conference in Houston on 18 May.

HSE&T Corner: Hubler: Organizations must lower tolerance for exposures and risks to reduce occurrence of serious injuries and fatalities

Jul 3, 2017

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People, Companies and Products July/August 2017

Jul 3, 2017

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Perspectives: Harris Reynolds, Diamond Offshore Drilling: Boom or bust, offshore industry must focus on innovations to drive down costs

Jul 3, 2017

Figure 1 presents a schematic of the drilling fluid flow with the dual drill string configuration. The dual drill string allows drilling mud to be pumped down the annulus inside the drill pipe, with the return flow up the concentric inner pipe. A top drive adapter connects the rig’s top drive to the top of the dual drill string. The flow control unit is positioned near the rig and remotely controlled from the driller’s cabin.

Trial well onshore Canada verifies dual drill string drilling method, enables managed gradient drilling

Jul 3, 2017

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New digital age may disrupt traditional business models

Jul 3, 2017

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Drilling & Completion News

Jul 3, 2017

The ENSCO 120 jackup is scheduled to begin a three-year drilling program in the North Sea in July. It was the first rig equipped with Ensco’s Canti-Leverage Advantage system, which enhances the rig’s hoisting capacity at the farthest reaches of the cantilever when the rig is fully skidded out, leading to fewer rig moves on multiwell programs.

Small signs hint at possible recovery in still-sluggish North Sea

Jul 3, 2017

The Offshore Riser Inspection System was designed to provide the accuracy and benefits of ultrasonic wall thickness and crack detection without the need to pull the riser for testing. The system consists of an ultrasonic inspection tool and a wireline logging unit. Photo courtesy of Intrgate

In-situ riser inspection system provides ultrasonic wall thickness, crack detection in a single run

Jul 3, 2017

IGas began exploration drilling at Barton Moss, Northwest England, in 2014. To date, the company has drilled three shale wells in Northwest UK, although none of them are currently producing.

Momentum builds in UK for major ramp-up in shale development

Jul 3, 2017

Halliburton developed the Endurance Hydraulic Screen as an alternative to traditional gravel-packing operations. The screen closes the annular gap between the screen and the formation in response to surface-applied pressure.

Open-hole, multizone completions drive development of single-trip sand control technologies

Jul 3, 2017

Tenaris recently deployed its TenarisHydril Wedge XP connection for YPF on two wells, one in the San Jorge basin and one in the Neuquén basin, in Argentina.

Drilling & Completion Tech Digest

Jul 3, 2017

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News Cuttings

Jul 3, 2017

Figure 2 shows mises stress contours on the valve at a static pressure of 5,000 psi.

Casing-integrated, surface-activated well control tool supplements BOP in uncontrolled blowout scenarios

Jul 3, 2017

Figure 2 depicts mixture density vs. pressure for different gas-oil ratios of methane-base oil mixtures at 150°C.

Study targets potential for gas loading in drilling fluids to improve influx detection, management

Jul 3, 2017

NOV developed the VectorEDGE RSS for drilling lateral sections in wells on well-understood fields. By eliminating near-bit sensors and built-in MWD equipment, the cost of the RSS has been cut in half. Design of the system began in 2012, and field tests in West Texas and the Northeast US have been ongoing since 2016.

No room for failure in RSS performance as cost pressures persist

Jun 30, 2017

Packers and sliding sleeves on the inner liner allow for staged fractured operations inside the perforated outer liner.

North Sea wells prove efficiency, function of multistage ball-actuated, sleeve-based stimulation system

Jun 30, 2017

Speaking at the 2017 OTC on 3 May in Houston, Jákup Øregaard, Drilling Manager at Statoil, detailed an integrated, trilateral partnership among the operator, drilling contractor and main service provider, including a shared incentive system, that supported a 70% recovery goal for the Johan Sverdrup field.

Statoil adopts integrated, trilateral partnership in search of ‘perfect wells’ on Johan Sverdrup field

Jun 30, 2017

Gunther Newcombe, Head of Operations at UK Oil and Gas Authority (OGA), speaks at a UK North Sea panel session at the 2017 OTC on 3 May in Houston. His presentation focused on how the OGA is working with the industry to drive down decommissioning costs by 35% relative to the 2015 base case cost. The OGA estimates that decommissioning aging platforms on the UKCS could cost an estimated £52 billion.

UK government, industry look toward collaboration to drive down decommissioning costs on UKCS

Jun 30, 2017

Figure 2: The MR150 Man Rider winch comes with an OEM-recommended maintenance and inspection schedule, but hoists and winches that are operated in harsh, dirty or corrosive environments will likely need more frequent and thorough inspections and maintenance.

Employing the three T’s — testing, timing and technology — can increase equipment reliability through maintenance strategies

Jun 30, 2017

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