Archive | Drilling It Safely
From the chairman: It’s time to push forward on environmental performance; benchmarking will be 1st step
Posted on 10 November 2009 in 2009, Drilling It Safely, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, November/December
As 2009 chairman of IADC, the time is approaching when I begin to take stock of the year that has almost passed. While it is premature to write a close-out report…
Web-, computer-based well control program provides cost-driven, self-paced training
Posted on 10 November 2009 in 2009, Drilling It Safely, November/December
As we address the uncertainties of future activities in the oil and gas industry, the constant remains with the need to drive down lifting costs for operators…
Modified BIBO, LOT applied to trip out from deep HPHT well with simultaneous loss, ballooning
Posted on 10 November 2009 in 2009, Drilling It Safely, Innovating While Drilling, November/December
The leak off test (LOT) and barrel in – barrel out (BIBO) procedures were modified and applied successfully to trip a very deep high-pressure, high-temperature…
Automated system provides well control for extreme drilling environments, enhances MPD
Posted on 10 November 2009 in 2009, Drilling It Safely, Innovating While Drilling, November/December, The Efficient Rig
The essence of well control is information. Ideally, downhole information facilitates a knowledgeable, expert response to prevent a costly or even…
When is the right time for training? The answer is always ‘now,’ and the well blowout stats prove it
Posted on 03 November 2009 in 2009, Drilling It Safely, July/August
When 2,000 rigs were out in the field in 2008, drilling contractors barely had time to scratch, let alone think about sending their employees off…
‘Biofouling’ is tip of green iceberg
Posted on 03 November 2009 in 2009, Drilling It Safely, July/August
“Biofouline” is the latest environmental hobgoblin impacting global industries and the world, but it is just the tip of the green iceberg. Biofouling is the…
Relief well case study: Modified drillers method used as intervention alternative to bullheading
Posted on 03 November 2009 in 2009, Drilling It Safely, July/August
This article summarizes the innovative use of a relief well as a cost-effective and safe alternative for a non-blowout well control intervention.
Well control faces new complexities with deep, HPHT, horizontal, deepwater, multiwell drilling
Posted on 03 November 2009 in 2009, Drilling It Safely, July/August
There have been many advances in the drilling industry in the last 20 years. What was once the exotic has now become routine. Some examples are:
Snubbing power tong could be cost-effective alternative to workover rigs while maintaining safety
Posted on 03 November 2009 in 2009, Drilling It Safely, July/August
In oil and gas recovery operations, tubular members are usually run or pulled using a workover rig or a snubbing unit. Workover rigs are basically small…
Norwegian PSA tracks negative trend in attitudes toward safe lifting, urges radical change
Posted on 03 November 2009 in 2009, Drilling It Safely, Global and Regional Markets, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, July/August
Change was the winning slogan in the recent US presidential election. In the same way, a willingness to adapt and think anew is essential for reducing risk…
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