Archive | 2014
Drilling Ahead: Want good news? Don’t read this column!
Posted on 10 July 2014 in 2014, Departments, July/August
“It’s not my job to give you good news,” declared spunky Susan Mackenzie, head of the Energy Division of the UK Health & Safety Executive. When Ms Mackenzie began…
Drilling & Completion News
Posted on 10 July 2014 in 2014, Departments, July/August
KCA Deutag’s land division has been awarded a contract worth more than $90 million by Russia’s second-largest oil company, Lukoil, for the supply of two arctic cluster…
Extreme drilling drives drill pipe innovations
Posted on 10 July 2014 in 2014, CurrentFeatures, Innovating While Drilling, July/August, Onshore Advances, The Efficient Rig, The Offshore Frontier
Drill pipe, like everything else in well construction, is rapidly evolving to match an ever-expanding operational window. Whether operators are drilling longer laterals in resource plays, launching high-stakes…
IADC launches KSA Competencies Program online database
Posted on 10 July 2014 in 2014, Drilling It Safely, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, July/August
IADC officially kicked off its Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA) Competencies Program at IADC World Drilling 2014 in Vienna in June. The goal of the project is to ensure…
Downhole shakeup
Posted on 10 July 2014 in 2014, CurrentFeatures, Innovating While Drilling, July/August
Rumblings, from surface to TD, are omnipresent throughout a drilling operation. From long-reach horizontal wells onshore the US to the deepest offshore wells around the world, shock and vibration takes…
Drilling & Completion Tech Digest
Posted on 10 July 2014 in 2014, Departments, July/August
Maersk Drilling has placed an order with GE Oil & Gas for the industry’s first 20,000-psi rated deepwater BOP and riser systems. The order, which is subject to a final investment…
Q&A’s with UK, Norwegian regulators
Posted on 10 July 2014 in 2014, Drilling It Safely, Global and Regional Markets, July/August, The Offshore Frontier
As head of the UK Heath and Safety Executive (HSE) Energy Division, what goals do you have for the coming years? Susan Mackenzie: The health and safety priorities for the…
Expandable liner gets deepwater well to TD past 3 sand zones
Posted on 10 July 2014 in 2014, Completing the Well, July/August, The Offshore Frontier
Deep and ultra-deepwater exploration activities continue to set records as new wells are drilled in deeper waters and in more complex reservoirs. At the same time, the…
Front-loaded approach to well control stresses planning, prevention
Posted on 10 July 2014 in 2014, Drilling It Safely, Innovating While Drilling, July/August, Onshore Advances, The Offshore Frontier
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Benjamin Franklin’s sage advice still resonates today, even in 10,000-ft laterals and subsea wells a mile or more beneath…
IADC ISP: LTI rate holds steady in 2013, TRIR down by 8%
Posted on 10 July 2014 in 2014, Drilling It Safely, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, July/August
The global drilling industry saw its lost-time incidence (LTI) rate and its number of fatalities unchanged from 2012 to 2013, at 0.26 and 22 fatalities, respectively. Improvements…
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01 August 2014
Fugro’s real-time helideck monitoring aids operational planning, safety
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31 July 2014
Eni discovers gas and condensates offshore Gabon
Eni has made a gas and condensates discovery in the Nyonie Deep exploration prospect in block D4, approximately 13 km offshore Gabon and 50 km from the capital city Libreville...
31 July 2014
Blue Ocean Technologies: Subsea well intervention completed in 6,700- ft record depth
Blue Ocean Technologies has set multiple records in subsea well intervention by intervening in, and subsequently plugging and abandoning, a production gas...
30 July 2014
Fugro’s DeepData pod provides data for deepwater riser monitoring
Fugro has delivered a motion dataset from the BOP stack and lower riser of two deepwater wells in the Barents Sea using its DeepData pods. The DeepData pods...
28 July 2014
SDI completes 500th MagTraC MWD Ranging project
Scientific Drilling International (SDI) has completed the 500th MagTraC MWD Ranging project. MagTraC was introduced in 1998 to target challenging applications...