Archive | The Offshore Frontier
MPD system facilitates top-hole drilling offshore Brazil
Posted on 31 January 2012 in News, The Offshore Frontier
AGR has completed its first Brazilian operation using the EC-Drill system, a managed pressure drilling technology based on the RMR system and…
MECO delivers water purification system for arctic conditions
Posted on 26 January 2012 in News, The Offshore Frontier
MECO has shipped a reverse osmosis plant system for drinking and process water purification to a major oil and gas company operating in the extreme Arctic…
North Sea horizontal wells employs open-hole, multi-stage fracturing system
Posted on 18 January 2012 in Completing the Well, News, The Offshore Frontier
Wintershall recently drilled and completed a multi-fractured horizontal well in the North Sea using an open-hole…
Norwegian minister: Climate change, greater access, Russia driving Arctic development
Posted on 12 January 2012 in Global and Regional Markets, News, The Offshore Frontier
The Arctic could hold the answer to energy security and independence as the world continues to need fossil fuels…
Keppel AmFELS to build new semi from existing hull for Diamond Offshore
Posted on 11 January 2012 in News, The Efficient Rig, The Offshore Frontier
Diamond Offshore has contracted Keppel AmFELS to construct and upgrade a moored semisubmersible…
Woodside pushes total section depth to 6,250 ft using RMR, casing while drilling
Posted on 10 January 2012 in Innovating While Drilling, News, The Offshore Frontier
Woodside Petroleum reached a total section depth of 6,250 ft on an exploration well in Western Australia with the help…
STMZ frac-pack completion system proves value in ultra-deepwater GOM
Posted on 13 December 2011 in Completing the Well, Innovating While Drilling, News, The Offshore Frontier
A three-zone single-trip multi-zone frac-pack completion system was deployed successfully in the Lower Tertiary…
Offshore, optimism for an uncertain future
Posted on 04 May 2011 in 2011, May/June, The Offshore Frontier
The last time I had the privilege of writing an article for Drilling Contractor was in March 2009, when the offshore drilling industry was reeling from the effects of the more than 70% drop…
Wellbore hydraulics R&D supports evolution in Brazil’s deepwater, presalt
Posted on 04 May 2011 in 2011, May/June, The Offshore Frontier
Approximately 80% of Brazilian oil production comes from offshore fields. Campos Basin is the major producing area while Espirito…
Frontier drilling to require a shift in paradigm
Posted on 04 February 2010 in 2010, January/February, Onshore Advances, The Offshore Frontier
Critical D&C issues with John de Lange, BG Group. Looking at technology and the world demand for oil and gas, I see a couple of areas that haven’t been explored much and where there is potential. First, there is deepwater and ultra-deepwater. …
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21 February 2012
Colville succeeds Hunt as IADC president
Stephen A Colville has been appointed president of IADC, effective 1 March, following the retirement at the end of this month of Dr Lee Hunt...
21 February 2012
ExxonMobil hosts program to get young women interested in math, science
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16 February 2012
New wells push boundaries of Bivins Ranch area in Whittenburg Basin for Apache
Apache Corp has completed five of six initial vertical tests as oil producers in the Whittenburg Basin play...
14 February 2012
Industry pursues new strategies to enhance process safety management
Until recently, process safety management was seen as something that only plants and refineries had to worry...
14 February 2012
12 lives saved in F5 tornado proves value of Cactus Drilling emergency plan
Creating the plan started by recognizing opportunities where an emergency could affect the company’s crews...