Archive | March/April
Drilling Ahead: Webinar on competency clarifies complex topic
Posted on 18 March 2013 in 2013, Departments, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, March/April
Technology is our industry’s defibrillator. Without it, we would have shared the same calamitous demise that befell blacksmiths and buggy makers. Unable to pursue any but the lowest-hanging fruit, we’d end up beating our rigs into plowshares…
Drilling & Completion Tech Digest
Posted on 18 March 2013 in 2013, Departments, March/April
Halliburton, Apache Corp and Caterpillar have developed dual-fuel technology to safely and efficiently power the pumping equipment used for fracturing treatments with a mixture of natural gas and diesel. With 12 pumps (24,000 hp), it is one of the largest dual-fuel projects in the industry…
Cementing: Taking in lessons learned
Posted on 18 March 2013 in 2013, CurrentFeatures, Features, Innovating While Drilling, March/April, Onshore Advances
Hydrocarbon production is a risky business, and nowhere is this more evident than in the deepest, darkest waters on the planet, where some of the brightest prospects for the future lie miles beneath the surface. High pressures and temperatures, extended laterals and unstable reservoirs are…
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Drilling & Completion News
Posted on 18 March 2013 in 2013, Departments, March/April
Keppel FELS has delivered the UMW Naga 4 jackup to UMW Oil & Gas five days ahead of schedule in February, on budget and with a perfect safety record…
Plug locator system mitigates cement plug displacement risks
Posted on 18 March 2013 in 2013, Innovating While Drilling, March/April
The ongoing search for new oil and gas reserves continues to push the technical limits of well construction, as more complex wells are being drilled into increasingly remote…
Harsh environments, extended drilling envelopes steer drill pipe evolution
Posted on 18 March 2013 in 2013, CurrentFeatures, Features, Innovating While Drilling, March/April
Just as wells have become longer and more complex, drill pipe is not what it used to be. Improved steel grades and connections for conventional pipe, advanced materials for extreme environments, wired drill pipe…
Latin America: Growth expected across the board
Posted on 18 March 2013 in 2013, CurrentFeatures, Features, Global and Regional Markets, March/April, The Offshore Frontier
Picture Latin America as a quilt. In unison, the pieces come together to form a vibrant and vast region, but separately, every patch tells a story all its own. “Each country has different needs and challenges regarding…
Logging data linked in real time mitigate drilling complications
Posted on 18 March 2013 in 2013, Global and Regional Markets, March/April, The Offshore Frontier
he Brazilian petroleum industry has entered a new era of success exploiting shallow-water oil reserves in the Campos Basin, utilizing methods enhanced by advanced software…
IADC pushes forward on KSA project, calls for more industry participation
Posted on 18 March 2013 in 2013, Drilling It Safely, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, March/April
The IADC Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA) project is well under way and headed toward completion later this year, with worldwide mapping of competence-based models already completed, Dr Brenda Kelly, IADC senior director of program development, said at the 2013 IADC HSE & Training Conference in Houston on 6 February. The work continues to focus on rig-based positions, Dr Kelly said, “but ultimately there is that vision on expanding to other third-party personnel who will be…
GOM deepwater well puts dual-gradient drilling on the map
Posted on 18 March 2013 in 2013, March/April, The Offshore Frontier
IADC defines dual-gradient drilling (DGD) as a variation of managed pressure drilling that uses “two or more pressure gradients within selected sections to manage…
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