Archive | 2013
Wirelines
Posted on 18 March 2013 in 2013, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, March/April
ADC welcomed an agreement reached on 21 February between the European Parliament and the European Council on a proposal for oil and gas safety regulation…
Accident precursor program under development to prevent major hazards
Posted on 18 March 2013 in 2013, Drilling It Safely, March/April
It is rare for a major catastrophe to occur in isolation. Typically, major accidents are not caused by a single failure but by multiple failures occurring in sequence…
Trent Latshaw, Latshaw Drilling: Lessons learned in setbacks lead to greater success
Posted on 18 March 2013 in 2013, Departments, Exclusive Video, March/April, Recent Drilling News, Videos
Arriving in Alaska in 1971, just three years after the Prudhoe Bay discovery, Trent Latshaw, now president and owner of…
Improving well control calls for continuous evaluation of barriers
Posted on 18 March 2013 in 2013, Drilling It Safely, March/April
Traditional well control training teaches critical skills needed to recognize and prevent wellbore influx, such as recognizing pore pressure fluctuations…
Real-time capabilities, inspection systems fine-tune coiled tubing
Posted on 18 March 2013 in 2013, Innovating While Drilling, March/April
Improvements in coiled-tubing (CT) data acquisition are sharpening the eyes and ears of downhole operations, as real-time data allows operators to better monitor…
Emergency response: Industry builds an equipped community
Posted on 18 March 2013 in 2013, Drilling It Safely, March/April
Breakthroughs in exploration technologies have opened up opportunities of historic proportions, but they have also brought new liabilities and…
News Cuttings
Posted on 18 March 2013 in 2013, Departments, March/April
IADC presented Mike Hoyle, head of advanced engineering in GL Noble Denton’s UK marine and offshore operation…
People, companies and products
Posted on 18 March 2013 in 2013, Departments, March/April
Aker Solutions has signed a contract with Statoil for the supply of a subsea production system for the Aasta Hansteen field…
Environment and drilling: It’s not one or the other
Posted on 18 March 2013 in 2013, CurrentFeatures, Features, March/April
Like the path that has been taken to achieve safer operations, industry has come a long way in improving its environmental performance, taking incremental steps that are adding up to significant change…
IADC introduces the Red Thread
Posted on 18 March 2013 in 2013, CurrentFeatures, March/April
With president and CEO Stephen Colville at the helm, IADC recently introduced the Red Thread, an accordion-style document and HTML5 app that details how IADC will achieve its core goal of catalyzing improved performance for the drilling industry…
Recent Drilling News
23 May 2013
Honghua developing new-generation shale-drilling rig, plans testing of frac pump
Honghua Group and its US subsidiary Honghua America are developing a next-generation onshore rig...
21 May 2013
Exclusive video: How leaders can achieve and sustain safety excellence
Leaders can achieve more in safety excellence by focusing on what they want employees to...
21 May 2013
Exclusive video with Marshall Adkins: Bearish on oil, relatively more bullish on natural gas
Marshall Adkins, managing director of Raymond James & Associates, speaks with...
21 May 2013
Marathon Oil: 3,000-plus wells possible in Eagle Ford acreage
Marathon Oil has determined that it may drill more than 3,000 wells in its Eagle...
21 May 2013
Noble Energy moves toward mixed fleet of LNG-dedicated, dual-fuel rigs
After a pilot program initiated in early 2011 to compare the use of LNG versus diesel to power...