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Drilling & Completion Tech Digest
Posted on 12 November 2009 in 2009, Departments, Innovating While Drilling, News, November/December
BJ Services Company has successfully installed the first InjectSafe chemical injection system with DynaCoil capillary injection strings offshore in two wells in Europe…
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…
Shoulder/thread verifier system uses thermal imaging to detect potential connection problems
Posted on 09 November 2009 in 2009, Innovating While Drilling, November/December
A new shoulder/thread verifier system (STVS) uses thermal imaging technology to enable verification of the shoulder, thread and seal engagement…
D&C Tech Digest
Posted on 03 November 2009 in 2009, Departments, Innovating While Drilling, July/August
Huisman rig completes 1st well in 6 weeks; drills surface hole using drilling with casing Huisman’s newly developed containerised drilling rig, the LOC 400, operated by the Northern Dutch Drilling Company (NDDC) for Northern Petroleum Netherlands (NPN), successfully completed its first well in Werkendam, The Netherlands. The unit drilled the well to a TD of [...]
Performance drilling – definition, benchmarking, performance qualifiers, efficiency and value
Posted on 03 November 2009 in 2009, Innovating While Drilling, July/August
Drilling programs continue to be pushed into harder and more abrasive formations while directional drilling activities have become more complex.
New water-based drilling fluid with treated micronized barite slurries may help reduce ECDs
Posted on 03 November 2009 in 2009, Innovating While Drilling, July/August
Technical challenges in the oil industry are becoming more complex each day. Ten- to 12-km wells are being drilled, ultra high-temperature, high-pressure…
Understanding yield point: Effect on pressure surges critical to managing deep, difficult MPD wells
Posted on 03 November 2009 in 2009, Innovating While Drilling, July/August
Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) is often used to drill formations that have a narrow window between formation pore pressure and fracture pressure.
Riserless drilling with casing: GOM well design model requires change for deepwater drilling
Posted on 03 November 2009 in 2009, Innovating While Drilling, July/August, The Offshore Frontier
As deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GOM) drilling operations move into deeper water and well depths, there has been a lack of consistent and sustained performance…
Continuous improvements lead to Maersk Oil Qatar’s longest horizontal well in the world
Posted on 03 November 2009 in 2009, Innovating While Drilling, July/August, The Offshore Frontier
Maersk Oil Qatar AS (MOQ) completed drilling the world-record BD-04A well in May 2008 offshore Qatar. It was the successful outcome of engineering…
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