From reliability-centered maintenance programs to integrated sensors to advanced risk modeling, the drilling industry is dedicating more resources than ever to ensuring the integrity of its assets...
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Automated well control: Industry gets ready for 20,000 psi and beyond
The drilling industry continues to push the limits of its technologies in order to access deeper, hotter, higher-pressure reservoirs. As the industry moves toward drilling...
Read More »Real-time drilling service halts twist-offs in Wolfcamp wells
An operator in the Permian Basin requested Baker Hughes to provide a real-time drilling performance service due to numerous drill string twist-offs occurring on both...
Read More »Rolling PDC cutter enhances drill bit life in Granite Wash runs
Recent advances in diamond bonding techniques and manufacturing processes have enabled the industry to produce highly abrasion-resistant polycrystalline diamond cutters...
Read More »Liner hanger systems bump up pressure ratings, load capacities
Following the industry’s path to deeper operations and longer laterals, liner hanger systems are amping up in terms of higher load capacities and higher-pressure ratings. However...
Read More »A fluid situation
The complexities of today’s oil and gas reservoirs demand new levels of sophistication for drill fluids, including fluids that improve lubricity and reduce risk and environmental impact...
Read More »Martin Culen: In future, MPD equipment on rigs will be as common as seat belts in cars
When Martin Culen joined a Canada-based oilfield services company in 1996, he wasn’t entirely sure that this was the industry for him. He had wanted to put his mechanical...
Read More »People, companies and products
Alden James “Doc” Laborde, an offshore drilling pioneer who transformed the drilling industry with innovations that made it possible to drill farther and in deeper waters...
Read More »Onshore Drilling & Technology Briefs: Unit Drilling launches new rig design; China preps for large-scale shale development
Unit Drilling has put the first of its newly designed BOSS series, Rig 401, to work in the Texas Panhandle for Unit Petroleum. The 1,500-hp, AC-powered walking rig...
Read More »HSE&T Corner: Quantitative method can guide competency programs, determine value of assessment
When something goes wrong, the culprit is oftentimes the human factor – not having the right person with the right skills in the right place at the right time. “If you look...
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