Archive | March/April
People, Companies & Products
Posted on 15 March 2012 in 2012, Focused Microsites, March/April
FMC Technologies has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Control Systems International (CSI), which supplies control and automation system solutions…
Preserving our license to drill – IADC president Stephen Colville is ready to take the association to the next level
Posted on 15 March 2012 in 2012, Features, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, March/April, Videos
Preserving the energy industry’s license to operate in an era of increasing tendency toward much tighter regulations and perhaps unnecessary…
Outsmarting Mother Nature
Posted on 15 March 2012 in 2012, Features, Innovating While Drilling, March/April
The oil and gas industry has conquered many a force of nature in its history, but management of wellbore pressures remains among the trickiest challenges still being confronted on a daily basis in drilling operations around the world. From increasingly depleted land and offshore fields to the growing number…
IADC developing KSAs for oil/gas positions
Posted on 15 March 2012 in 2012, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, March/April, Videos
Drilling Contractor editorial coordinator Katherine Scott speaks with Mark Denkowski,vice president of accreditation and certification for IADC, on the KSA project. IADC has initiated the development of Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs) for all oil and gas positions, with assistance from Petrofac in the implementation of the current KSA review and development of new positional [...]
What the shales have taught us
Posted on 15 March 2012 in 2012, Completing the Well, Features, March/April
When the industry cracked the code on shales, it unlocked a wealth of unconventional resources, introduced new methods of drilling and completions, and made “fracturing” a household word. Technology sparked the shale boom that began a decade ago in the dry gas reservoirs of the Barnett play…
Perspectives: Gregers Kudsk, Maersk Drilling – Industry’s joint efforts lead to advances in technology
Posted on 15 March 2012 in 2012, March/April, The Efficient Rig, The Offshore Frontier, Videos
At the forefront of advances in offshore drilling technologies, Gregers Kudsk, vice president and senior technical advisor for Maersk Drilling, pursues ideas from the beginning, even when the majority of people have yet to come on board. In the early stages of his career, he found himself working on technologies that would lead to improved rig efficiency and automation at a time when resources and knowledge were limited…
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