Archive | Onshore Advances
Low-cost radial jet drilling helps revitalize 40-year-old oilfield
Posted on 28 May 2013 in 2013, Innovating While Drilling, May/June, Onshore Advances
Upward trends in oil prices and the proliferation of new technologies are enabling operators to capitalize on new opportunities…
Environmentally friendly proppant technology to improve hydraulic fracturing efficiency
Posted on 28 May 2013 in 2013, Drilling It Safely, Innovating While Drilling, May/June, Onshore Advances
Preferred Sands has launched a non-phenolic, resin-coating technology designed to be more environmentally friendly and efficient than conventional phenolic-based resins…
Automated control system integrates preventive and predictive maintenance functions
Posted on 28 May 2013 in 2013, Innovating While Drilling, May/June, Onshore Advances
ntegrated Drilling Equipment (IDE) has introduced the second-generation, automated Centurion drilling control system on a new 1,500-hp AC Sparta rig…
ASTM subcommittee to develop hydraulic fracturing standards
Posted on 28 May 2013 in 2013, Drilling It Safely, May/June, Onshore Advances
ASTM International has formed a subcommittee to develop standards for hydraulic fracturing. Subcommittee D18.26, which held its first meeting in January, includes 230 volunteer…
DOI to encourage RD&D of oil shale, tar sands resources
Posted on 28 May 2013 in 2013, Drilling It Safely, May/June, Onshore Advances
The US Department of the Interior (DOI) has finalized a plan to encourage research, development and demonstration (RD&D) of oil shale and tar sands resources on Bureau of Land Management…
Remote directional drilling enhances shale well quality, efficiency
Posted on 28 May 2013 in 2013, Global and Regional Markets, Innovating While Drilling, May/June, Onshore Advances
After a successful pilot application in the Haynesville Shale, Shell Upstream Americas is taking steps to conduct all of its directional drilling (DD), geosteering (GS) and measurement/logging while drilling (MWD/LWD) operations in the Americas and beyond from remote drilling centers…
Shale drilling reaps efficiency gains from MPD pressure control
Posted on 28 May 2013 in 2013, Global and Regional Markets, Innovating While Drilling, May/June, Onshore Advances
Managed pressure drilling (MPD) techniques that are used to drill some of the world’s most extreme conventional wells also have the capability to significantly improve drilling efficiency in unconventional shales…
Honghua developing new-generation shale-drilling rig, plans testing of frac pump
Posted on 23 May 2013 in News, Onshore Advances, OTC, The Efficient Rig
Honghua Group and its US subsidiary Honghua America are developing a next-generation onshore rig…
Case study: Planning enables remote-area drilling campaign
Posted on 22 May 2013 in 2013, Innovating While Drilling, May/June, Onshore Advances
Offshore the Falkland Islands, approximately 650 km southeast of the South American continent, two small UK operators with limited in-house operational resources conducted a successful drilling campaign…
Global Shale Report: An expanding playground
Posted on 22 May 2013 in 2013, Features, Global and Regional Markets, May/June, Onshore Advances
Conventional wisdom has its place, but when it comes to land drilling, the thinking these days has a definite unconventional spin. “Unconventional” includes the vast shale plays that continue to be developed and discovered, not just in North America but also in basins worldwide…
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