Archive | 2012
Glenda Wylie, Halliburton: Passion for solving challenges driven by love of science
Posted on 20 December 2012 in 2012, Exclusive Video, Innovating While Drilling, November/December, Recent Drilling News, Videos
At the age of four, Glenda Wylie, now director of global technical marketing for Halliburton, was given three acres of land by her family on their farm in Missouri to do with as she pleased…
Rig count doubles in Utica Shale from year ago
Posted on 20 November 2012 in 2012, Global and Regional Markets, News
The number of active oil and natural gas rigs in the Appalachian Basin’s Utica Shale for the last week of October 2012 has doubled…
Multiphase simulations enhance well designs, contingency planning
Posted on 02 November 2012 in 2012, Drilling It Safely, November/December
Events in recent years have heightened industry awareness regarding well control issues, especially high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) and…
MPD powers static pre-drill modeling with dynamic capacity
Posted on 02 November 2012 in 2012, Innovating While Drilling, November/December
Managed pressure drilling (MPD) significantly reduces the likelihood of a well control event and associated wellbore problems by addressing two key…
Research expands as sour gas completion challenges increase
Posted on 02 November 2012 in 2012, Completing the Well, November/December
Like vinegar in a cylinder of honey, hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is the industry’s ultimate party-pooper, a sour intruder that puts the damper on an otherwise…
Wirelines
Posted on 02 November 2012 in 2012, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, November/December
Following an August meeting with James Watson, director of the US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), IADC, API, NOIA and the Offshore Operators Committee have…
News Cuttings
Posted on 02 November 2012 in 2012, Departments, November/December
IADC has launched an initiative for a comprehensive revision and update of the definitive rig-operations manual, the IADC Drilling Manual…
Optimism strong despite market uncertainties
Posted on 02 November 2012 in 2012, Features, Global and Regional Markets, November/December
Trumpets or fireworks may be absent in celebrating substantial industry growth as 2012 concludes, but that’s no matter. Over the past 12 months, industry solidified its footing after facing significant regulatory and economical challenges over the previous couple of years…
Technology Development: A game of risks vs rewards
Posted on 02 November 2012 in 2012, Features, Innovating While Drilling, November/December
Industry investing in new generation of forward-thinking technologies even as it works to overcome old mindsets, barriers. When National Oilwell Varco (NOV) unveils its open-platform drilling automation system NOVA in 2014…
Annual General Meeting Special: IADC 2012 – A year of reflection, changes
Posted on 02 November 2012 in 2012, Features, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, November/December
The drilling world is rapidly changing, and IADC is changing with it. With our strategic review recently completed, we’ve begun reshaping ourselves and have started to roll out new global initiatives aligned with our new way forward…
Recent Drilling News
15 May 2013
BP commits to renewed focus on upstream oil and gas over next decade
Over the next decade, as much as 75% to 80% of BP's majority group capital expenditure will be spent in upstream...
15 May 2013
Statoil sanctions Julia development in GOM with ExxonMobil, pushes ahead with Logan
Pursuing further growth in its US offshore portfolio, Statoil has sanctioned its fourth field development in the Gulf of Mexico...
15 May 2013
Exclusive video: New composite wireline cable contains seven-conductor electrical core
Serko Sarian, telemetry and conveyance portfolio manager for Schlumberger, talks with Drilling Contractor...
15 May 2013
PETRONAS: NOCs expand globally with increasing autonomy, financial strength
National oil companies (NOCs) continue to assume an increasingly meaningful role in the oil and gas industry...
15 May 2013
Different dual-gradient methods enable drilling in deepwater, depleted reservoirs
Dual-gradient technology continues to gain attention as an important solution to deepwater drilling and...