Archive | July/August
Drilling Ahead: Safety – Collaboration, not confrontation
Posted on 16 July 2012 in IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, July/August
Against the changing backdrop of E&P regulation in the post-Macondo world and with shales capturing a skeptical public eye, we must as an industry unite on basic principles of governance and self-regulation. If industry is to sustain its license to drill and produce, it’s critical to collaborate and confront tough realities…
Drilling & Completion News
Posted on 16 July 2012 in 2012, Departments, July/August
A Central Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sale held in June attracted more than $1.7 billion in high bids for tracts on the US Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. A total of 56 offshore energy companies submitted 593 bids on 454 tracts covering more than 2.4 billion acres, the US Interior Department announced…
Raising the bar for global safety, competency
Posted on 16 July 2012 in 2012, Drilling It Safely, Features, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, July/August
IADC has kicked off an ambitious project to develop worldwide competency guidelines for virtually all rig positions, with a priority on safety-critical positions with well control responsibilities. The guidelines, to be built upon IADC’s Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA) templates, aim to provide tools…
Low-ECD fluid facilitates deepwater, high-angle GOM well
Posted on 16 July 2012 in 2012, Innovating While Drilling, July/August
Modern wellbore design continues to become more complex. Many wells designed today, especially deepwater wells, contain significant challenges to effective wellbore…
Dual-gradient system evaluation highlights key high-risk issues
Posted on 16 July 2012 in 2012, Innovating While Drilling, July/August, The Offshore Frontier
This article provides an overview of the studied DGD system and equipment, as well as a hazard identification and risk assessment methodology…
Advanced oil-based, synthetic muds enable deeper, hotter wells
Posted on 16 July 2012 in 2012, Innovating While Drilling, July/August
Beyond the hardware required for today’s complex wells and state-of-the-art drilling and completion systems, advanced fluid technologies are keeping pace…
Drilling & Completion Tech Digest
Posted on 16 July 2012 in 2012, July/August
Globe Energy Services has added new rigs to its fleet designed for quicker and safer rig-up/rig-down. The Mustang 600-Class rigs feature Globe’s mast design with 116 ft of clear height…
BP case study: MPD application supports HPHT exploration
Posted on 16 July 2012 in 2012, Innovating While Drilling, July/August, The Offshore Frontier
Following successful implementation of managed pressure drilling (MPD) in high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) wells drilled from jackups in the Eastern…
HPHT research heats up
Posted on 16 July 2012 in 2012, Features, Innovating While Drilling, July/August
BP’s Project 20K among industry initiatives to push technologies beyond 20,000 psi, 400°F. What will production in subsea, ultra-deepwater fields look like in 10 years? That’s the multi-billion-dollar question as industry attempts to chart a course for those high stakes-arenas…
10 tools to build more effective training
Posted on 16 July 2012 in 2012, Drilling It Safely, July/August
In the oil and gas trade, proper safety training can mean the difference between life and death. The goal of every teaching program should be to create training that attracts and retains people’s attention and…
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