Archive | Innovating While Drilling
No longer niche: Expandables finally going mainstream
Posted on 06 July 2011 in 2011, Features, Innovating While Drilling, July/August
Since they came onto the scene nearly 15 years ago as the game changers that were going to revolutionize drilling and completions, expandables are finally coming of age…
Drilling automation: Is resistance futile?
Posted on 06 July 2011 in 2011, Features, Innovating While Drilling, July/August, The Efficient Rig, Videos
“Automation”: Say the word the right way with the right group of people in drilling circles, and it can almost come off as an obscenity. Drilling is an art, they say, with too many unpredictabilities. How can it be entrusted in the hands of a bunch of machines, computers and algorithms?
Open-hole packers may help isolate faults in multistage fracturing tight formations
Posted on 04 May 2011 in 2011, Innovating While Drilling, May/June
Drilling and completion operations in faulted reservoirs present a unique set of challenges. With the advent of multistage…
Remote workflows put digital resources to work to reduce NPT
Posted on 23 March 2011 in 2011, Innovating While Drilling, March/April
One of the biggest economic challenges for an operator when drilling a well is to reduce nonproductive time (NPT)…
Longer, deviated wells push drill pipe limits
Posted on 23 March 2011 in 2011, Innovating While Drilling, March/April
Drill pipe technical performance is rarely the starting point for well planning – engineers expect that drill pipe will handle the challenges, loads and environments that it…
Stick-slip workshop highlights mitigation technologies, needs
Posted on 23 March 2011 in 2011, Innovating While Drilling, March/April
This article presents the results from a workshop on stick-slip mitigation held in Houston on 15 July 2010…
Managing kick/loss cycles in East Java
Posted on 23 March 2011 in 2011, Innovating While Drilling, March/April
Dealing with extreme kick/loss cycles is a given in the vuggy, fractured limestone of East Java’s Kujung formation. The difficult drilling is further complicated by reservoir gas with…
2-in-1 bit: Dual cutting structure boosts ROP
Posted on 23 March 2011 in 2011, Innovating While Drilling, March/April
Drilling at a high penetration rate while maintaining durability to complete abrasive sand sections in the Riverside field of Pinedale, Wyo., has been a challenge…
Minimizing uncertainty: Geosteering advances keep wellbores in sweet spot
Posted on 21 March 2011 in 2011, Features, Innovating While Drilling, March/April, Videos
Deviated, ultra-deep and unconventional have become bywords of the complex and complicated nature of oil and gas drilling today. Underlying this new vernacular is another challenge…
UBD unlocks pay in North Sea wells
Posted on 21 March 2011 in 2011, Features, Innovating While Drilling, March/April
This article reviews an offshore underbalanced drilling project in the Danish sector of the North Sea undertaken during summer 2010. Two oil wells were drilled from a jackup, with produced oil and gas transferred to the accompanying…
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