Archive | March/April
D&C News
Posted on 12 March 2009 in 2009, Departments, March/April
Tullow Oil announced that the Tweneboa-1 exploration well, in the Deepwater Tano licence offshore Ghana, has discovered a significant highly pressured, light hydrocarbon accumulation…
D&C Tech Digest
Posted on 12 March 2009 in 2009, Departments, March/April
Helix Energy Solutions Group recently completed installation of drilling equipment on its MODU Q4000 multi-service vessel, equipped with a DP-3 system…
People, Companies & Products
Posted on 12 March 2009 in 2009, Departments, March/April
Apache chairman and CEO G Steven Farris has formed an office of the chief executive with three executives reporting to him: Roger B Plank, CFO since 1997…
Perspectives: David Reid, National Oilwell Varco
Posted on 12 March 2009 in 2009, Departments, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, March/April
In what David Reid calls the “inventing/creating world” in his head, there are definitive ideas about how things should be and strong opinions about right and wrong…
Oman training center supports safety, operational goals
Posted on 12 March 2009 in 2009, Departments, Drilling It Safely, March/April
The Nabors International Oman Training Center (OTC) in Muscat, which began operating 12 years ago, originally trained rig mechanics and electricians…
Innovations in MWD/LWD and drill pipe technologies address key operator concerns and needs, put previously impossible wells into reach
Posted on 12 March 2009 in 2009, Features, Innovating While Drilling, March/April
Operators ask for a lot in their logging-while-drilling (LWD) and measurement-while-drilling (MWD) tools. And why shouldn’t they, considering the sizable chunks these services can chew off of a budget?
Case study: Hostile-environment LWD allows efficient oil recovery in HPHT field
Posted on 12 March 2009 in 2009, Innovating While Drilling, March/April
In the deep, high-pressure, high-temperature wells in the Villafortuna/Trecate field in northern Italy, LWD was planned to enable continuous correlation for casing and coring points…
New litho neutron density tool features shorter length, wireless capability
Posted on 12 March 2009 in 2009, Innovating While Drilling, March/April
Aside from the GeoTap IDS, two new tools have been added to the InSite suite of technologies from Halliburton’s Sperry Drilling Services…
Acoustic telemetry, with multiple nodes in drillstring, used to achieve distributed MWD
Posted on 12 March 2009 in 2009, Innovating While Drilling, March/April
Unattended acoustic telemetry in real-time drilling environments can now include multiple nodes in the drillstring. We utilize a primary tool near the drill bit that transmits telemetry and sensor/directional information with one or more acoustic transponding devices at other sites along the drillstring, these incorporating both the primary signal and additional information from their own local sensors…
Along-string pressure, temperature measurements hold revolutionary promise for downhole management
Posted on 12 March 2009 in 2009, Innovating While Drilling, March/April
It’s widely known that the majority of stuck pipe incidents occur while pulling out of hole. If we can detect where an incident might occur – for example, in a 20,000-ft well – that could mean a radical reduction in nonproductive time (NPT) related to wellbore stability or drillstring integrity…
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