Archive | January/February
Innovating to stay ahead of safety curve
Posted on 01 February 2012 in 2012, January/February
Eni using lean well design, near-balance drilling, dual-casing technologies to ensure well integrity, improve pressure management in complex wells…
Training must keep up as well complexity rises
Posted on 01 February 2012 in 2012, January/February
Technology gaps must also be addressed in ERD, geosteering, BOP control systems, hydraulic fracturing efficiency…
Technology adoption: No risk means no gain
Posted on 01 February 2012 in 2012, January/February
Slow pace to implement emerging innovations leading to missed or delayed opportunities to reduce costs, NPT
Eurozone difficulties add market uncertainty
Posted on 01 February 2012 in 2012, January/February
Uneven spending impacts marginal projects as emerging shale opportunities push demand for high-tech land rigs…
Engaging proactively to drive sustainability
Posted on 01 February 2012 in 2012, January/February
Petronas looks to industry collaboration, guidelines to meet long-term training, technology needs…
Forging path forward for closed-loop drilling
Posted on 01 February 2012 in 2012, January/February
Industry must support emerging technologies with standards, competent people…
Perspectives: Shane Marchand, H&P – Industry is nothing without our people
Posted on 01 February 2012 in 2012, Focused Microsites, January/February
For someone who has wanted to be in the drilling business ever since he went to a rig christening in East Texas as a child, going to work for Helmerich & Payne in 1996…
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Redundancy builds in maintenance time to boost safety, reliability
Posted on 01 February 2012 in 2012, January/February
Efficiency, risk mitigation should go hand-in-hand if equipment is used effectively by competent workers…
Integrated solutions in a complex world
Posted on 01 February 2012 in 2012, January/February
Efforts to reduce E&P costs focus on enhancing drilling efficiency, wellbore positioning, wellbore assurance…
People, Companies & Products
Posted on 01 February 2012 in 2012, Focused Microsites, January/February
Walter H. Helmerich III, businessman, civic leader and philanthropist, passed away on 10 January. He joined H&P in 1950 and became president in 1960…
Recent Drilling News
21 May 2013
Chesapeake taps Anadarko senior VP as new CEO
Robert Douglas (“Doug”) Lawler, will join Chesapeake Energy as its CEO and a member of the Board of Directors, effective 17 June, the company announced...
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...