Archive | Innovating While Drilling
Automation expert: Drilling industry hindered by traditional business model
Posted on 13 September 2012 in Innovating While Drilling, News
The world has never needed more from the drilling industry than it does today, yet current methods of operation…
SPE to hold drilling automation workshop on 7 October
Posted on 13 September 2012 in Innovating While Drilling, News
Drilling automation will take center stage at the SPE Drilling Systems Automation Symposium on 7 October in…
Mechanical extrusion process uses robust darts to activate downhole tools
Posted on 05 September 2012 in Innovating While Drilling, News
Churchill Drilling Tools has developed a mechanical extrusion process that uses rigid metal darts to improve cycling…
Ulterra PDC bit sets record time, distance in Oklahoma “chat” well
Posted on 31 August 2012 in Innovating While Drilling, News, Onshore Advances
An Ulterra 6.125-in. U613M PDC bit combined with a TorkBuster performance-drilling tool has drilled…
Statoil looks to integration of multidisciplinary services to drive drilling efficiency
Posted on 23 August 2012 in Global and Regional Markets, Innovating While Drilling, News
Statoil has awarded Baker Hughes a contract to provide integrated drilling services for 25 fields on the…
Aluminum alloy drill pipe helps navigate complex well offshore Brunei
Posted on 13 August 2012 in Innovating While Drilling, News, The Offshore Frontier
Alcoa Oil & Gas has deployed 1,800 meters (5,905 ft) of aluminum alloy drill pipe (AADP) in the Iron Duke Well C
New water-based fluid system targets shale wells with extended lateral sections
Posted on 08 August 2012 in Completing the Well, Innovating While Drilling, News, Onshore Advances
Baker Hughes has introduced the LATIDRILL water-based drilling fluid system that aims to enhance wellbore quality…
Shell targets tight-gas plays with SCADAdrill drilling automation system
Posted on 23 July 2012 in Innovating While Drilling, News, Onshore Advances
Shell’s SCADAdrill system for low-cost land wells will begin rolling out by the end of the year in tight-gas plays throughout the US…
Sharpe: Let’s innovate the innovation process itself
Posted on 17 July 2012 in Innovating While Drilling, News
Rather than simply looking to technological innovations, the drilling industry may need to start innovating the innovation process…
China looks to unconventionals development, technology breakthroughs
Posted on 17 July 2012 in Global and Regional Markets, Innovating While Drilling, News
With a goal to produce 6.5 billion cu meters of shale gas per year by 2015, Chinese energy companies are…
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