Archive | 2013
.jpg&h=57&w=100&zc=1&q=90)
Risk-based approach to competency places focus on rig floor, well control
Posted on 30 January 2013 in 2013, Drilling It Safely, January/February
Contractors expanding safety management systems to formalize stronger process safety components. For the majority of drilling contractors…
Plenary session to explore impact of stakeholders’ growing expectations, heightened public awareness
Posted on 30 January 2013 in 2013, Features, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, January/February
The 2013 SPE/IADC Drilling Conference and Exhibition, 5-7 March in Amsterdam, will provide leading industry thinkers…
News Cuttings
Posted on 30 January 2013 in 2013, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, January/February
Maersk Drilling vice president and senior technical advisor Gregers Kudsk was named the 2012 IADC Contractor of the Year…
Survey: Rising operating costs pose biggest industry challenge in Asia Pacific
Posted on 30 January 2013 in 2013, Global and Regional Markets, January/February
Industry professionals are bullish about the near-term outlook for Asia Pacific, but rising operating costs as the region transitions from “easy” production…
Weatherford anticipates growth in Asia Pacific unconventional, intervention markets
Posted on 30 January 2013 in 2013, Global and Regional Markets, January/February
Oilfield services company Weatherford is anticipating near-term growth in a number of sectors in Asia Pacific, particularly…
People, companies and products
Posted on 30 January 2013 in 2013, Departments, January/February
Travis Hubert Petty, the former CEO of El Paso Co who got his start in the mailroom, died 21 December in Colorado Springs, Colo., at age 84. “He lived a real American story…
Drilling Ahead: Let’s not shoot ourselves in the foot over shales
Posted on 30 January 2013 in 2013, Departments, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, January/February
Amid a seemingly endless barrage of negative press, demonstrations and moratoriums, I was heartened to see the United Kingdom…
D&C News
Posted on 30 January 2013 in 2013, Departments, January/February
Maersk Drilling and Maersk Training inaugurated the MOSAIC II, Maersk’s offshore simulator training complex in Svendborg, Denmark in late 2012…
D&C Tech Digest
Posted on 30 January 2013 in 2013, Departments, January/February
The first commercial application of a new support system for conductor casing operations is under way on ConocoPhillips Norway’s Ekofisk field…
Critical Issues in Drilling & Completions
Posted on 30 January 2013 in 2013, Features, January/February
For all the big iron the drilling industry has spent billions of dollars building that can lift millions of pounds and drill miles beneath the earth’s surface, for all the highly sophisticated downhole technologies that can match anything in the aerospace or nuclear industries, much of our efforts are now…
FEATURED MICROSITES
Recent Drilling News
16 April 2014
Maersk Drilling takes delivery of ultra-deepwater drillship
Maersk Drilling has taken the delivery of its second drillship, Maersk Valiant from the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) shipyard in Geoje-Si, South-Korea. Maersk Valiant has begun its voyage toward the...
16 April 2014
Ensco orders new jackups from Lamprell
Ensco has ordered two high-specification jackups, ENSCO 140 and ENSCO 141, for delivery in mid-2016 from Lamprell’s shipyard in the United Arab Emirates. The rigs will also...
16 April 2014
MPD/UBD successfully drills sidetrack after 6 failed conventional drilling attempts
In the Brookeland Field in East Texas, conventional drilling methods failed in six attempts to drill a “straightforward” horizontal wellbore. The original well had surface casing installed...
16 April 2014
Chevron’s DGD training program serves array of learners across generations
Since 2008, more than 400 people – from operators, drilling contractors, service companies and regulators – have completed Chevron’s dual-gradient drilling (DGD) training...
16 April 2014
Pacific Drilling integrates ‘disruptive’ DGD technology into 7th-generation drillship
A disruptive technology is one that “gets its start away from the mainstream of a market and, then, as its functionality improves over time, invades the main market,” as defined by Harvard...