Archive | March/April
Stick-slip workshop highlights mitigation technologies, needs
Posted on 23 March 2011 in 2011, Innovating While Drilling, March/April
This article presents the results from a workshop on stick-slip mitigation held in Houston on 15 July 2010…
Remote workflows put digital resources to work to reduce NPT
Posted on 23 March 2011 in 2011, Innovating While Drilling, March/April
One of the biggest economic challenges for an operator when drilling a well is to reduce nonproductive time (NPT)…
Longer, deviated wells push drill pipe limits
Posted on 23 March 2011 in 2011, Innovating While Drilling, March/April
Drill pipe technical performance is rarely the starting point for well planning – engineers expect that drill pipe will handle the challenges, loads and environments that it…
Sand control case histories: Shape memory polymers, resins, shunt tubes
Posted on 23 March 2011 in 2011, Completing the Well, Features, March/April
Sand, a familiar adversary for drilling and completion engineers, continues to present a major obstacle to well production. It erodes hardware, blocks tubulars, creates downhole cavities and must be removed and disposed of…
Managing kick/loss cycles in East Java
Posted on 23 March 2011 in 2011, Innovating While Drilling, March/April
Dealing with extreme kick/loss cycles is a given in the vuggy, fractured limestone of East Java’s Kujung formation. The difficult drilling is further complicated by reservoir gas with…
We’ve only just begun…
Posted on 23 March 2011 in 2011, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, March/April
As we approach the first anniversary of the Macondo tragedy, the drilling industry remains far from back to normal. The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) issued the first deepwater…
2-in-1 bit: Dual cutting structure boosts ROP
Posted on 23 March 2011 in 2011, Innovating While Drilling, March/April
Drilling at a high penetration rate while maintaining durability to complete abrasive sand sections in the Riverside field of Pinedale, Wyo., has been a challenge…
Industry must engineer for simplicity, standardization
Posted on 23 March 2011 in 2011, Departments, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, March/April
For those of us who work in the drilling business, we know that the industry’s image among the general public is a misrepresentation, that it doesn’t reflect the emphasis we put on safety or efforts…
Drilling and Completion News
Posted on 23 March 2011 in 2011, Departments, March/April
Seadrill has signed a three-year contract with Chevron Thailand E&P for the T-12 tender rig, with a two-year option period. The contract is expected to commence in Q2 this year. T-12 will be the fifth such unit operating for Chevron…
Strategy, engagement, execution: 10 secrets to raise your company’s safety quotient
Posted on 23 March 2011 in 2011, Departments, Drilling It Safely, March/April
What do great safety organizations do that others don’t? Drawing on our experience with hundreds of organizations around the world, we have identified 10 characteristics shared by great safety organizations. These…
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