Eni using lean well design, near-balance drilling, dual-casing technologies to ensure well integrity, improve pressure management in complex wells...
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Training must keep up as well complexity rises
Technology gaps must also be addressed in ERD, geosteering, BOP control systems, hydraulic fracturing efficiency...
Read More »Technology adoption: No risk means no gain
Slow pace to implement emerging innovations leading to missed or delayed opportunities to reduce costs, NPT
Read More »Eurozone difficulties add market uncertainty
Uneven spending impacts marginal projects as emerging shale opportunities push demand for high-tech land rigs...
Read More »Engaging proactively to drive sustainability
Petronas looks to industry collaboration, guidelines to meet long-term training, technology needs...
Read More »Forging path forward for closed-loop drilling
Industry must support emerging technologies with standards, competent people...
Read More »Perspectives: Shane Marchand, H&P – Industry is nothing without our people
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...
Read More »Redundancy builds in maintenance time to boost safety, reliability
Efficiency, risk mitigation should go hand-in-hand if equipment is used effectively by competent workers...
Read More »Integrated solutions in a complex world
Efforts to reduce E&P costs focus on enhancing drilling efficiency, wellbore positioning, wellbore assurance...
Read More »People, Companies & Products
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...
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