Archive | Drilling It Safely
Dynamic FITs verify changing integrity of complex wellbores
Posted on 02 November 2012 in 2012, Drilling It Safely, November/December
Managed pressure drilling (MPD) methods enabled by drilling with closed-loop circulating fluid systems and PLC-controlled automatic chokes with the ability to…
Real-time data offers critical tool to redefine well control, safety
Posted on 01 November 2012 in 2012, Drilling It Safely, November/December
The industry has historically viewed real-time data as it relates to drilling optimization. Recent catastrophic events have proven that loss of containment and…
Shell to test technologies for enhancing deepwater well control
Posted on 30 October 2012 in 2012, Drilling It Safely, News, November/December
Shell is testing three technologies designed to ensure ongoing process safety by preventing catastrophic incidents, with subsea trials set to begin in key…
Aerospace design addresses risks of deepwater drilling
Posted on 30 October 2012 in 2012, Drilling It Safely, News, November/December
Bastion Technologies has developed a well control intervention system designed to automate the control and separation of a welll under upset conditions and leave a clean interface…
New BOP design eliminates need for elastomeric seals
Posted on 30 October 2012 in 2012, Drilling It Safely, News, November/December
Enovate Systems has developed a product that replaces the BOP riser package design with a system that combines gate valves and a new shear system. The En-Tegrity Shear Seal Valve provides complete…
From the 2012 ATCE exhibit floor: Closed-loop drilling mitigates well control events
Posted on 11 October 2012 in Drilling It Safely, News, Videos
Brian Grayson, Weatherford global manager of emerging technologies for drilling optimization services, speaks with Drilling Contractor…
KCA DEUTAG, Aker Solutions help EnQuest reach 5 years free of LTIs
Posted on 05 October 2012 in Drilling It Safely, News
EnQuest PLC has reached a new North Sea safety milestone by recording five years free of lost-time incidents…
Shell keynote: To maintain license to operate, industry must improve performance, accelerate learning
Posted on 02 October 2012 in Drilling It Safely, News
Royal Dutch Shell executive VP of safety and environment Kieron McFadyen is urging the drilling sector to learn…
Exclusive video: Process safety should not be an HSE function?
Posted on 02 October 2012 in Drilling It Safely, News, Videos
Vivek Bhatnagar, director of Phillip Townsend Associates, spoke with DC publisher/editor Mike Killalea at the 2012 IADC Drilling HSE Europe…
Subsea Well Response Project intervention system nears completion
Posted on 02 October 2012 in Drilling It Safely, News, The Offshore Frontier
The first equipment under development with the Subsea Well Response Project are due to be completed by the end of this year…
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