Archive | Featured Microsite Articles
People, infrastructure challenge Brazil growth
Posted on 15 March 2012 in 2012, Features, Global and Regional Markets, March/April
The offshore drilling industry has seen exponential activity growth in Brazil, and it’s all about deepwater and the pre-salt. In particularly high demand is rig equipment that can go deeper…
CT finds niches in data retrieval, plug drill-out
Posted on 15 March 2012 in 2012, Features, March/April, The Efficient Rig
As one of the oilfield’s most flexible and versatile workhorses, coiled tubing continues to push the technology envelope with new applications in more sophisticated operations…
Self-removing EFDAs level stimulation access
Posted on 15 March 2012 in 2012, Completing the Well, March/April
The industry has made great strides to improve the well completion phase of today’s producing oil and gas wells. What used to be considered a unique operation has been…
Drilling Ahead: ‘Interesting times’ well met by IADC leaders
Posted on 15 March 2012 in 2012, Departments, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, March/April
It’s with mixed feelings that I write this column, fondly and sadly bidding farewell to my longtime boss and friend Dr Lee Hunt, while welcoming with cheery anticipation his successor Stephen Colville. Lee has served this industry as IADC president since 1990, and as an IADC staffer for six years prior. I’ve had the honor and pleasure to work with Lee for more than 21 years…
Drilling & Completion News
Posted on 15 March 2012 in 2012, Focused Microsites, March/April
Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre (KOMtech) and ConocoPhillips are jointly designing a first-of-its-kind “ice-worthy” jackup to operate in the Arctic seas…
Drilling & Completion Tech Digest
Posted on 15 March 2012 in 2012, Focused Microsites, March/April
AGR has completed its first Brazilian operations using the EC-Drill technology, which is based on the riserless mud recovery system that has been modified for use on Petrobras’ jackup wells…
HSET Corner: Shifting gears from a culture of training to a culture of competence assurance
Posted on 15 March 2012 in 2012, Departments, Drilling It Safely, March/April
The introduction of new technologies, crews and regulations are affecting the way companies are approaching training and development. Competency assurance programs (CAPs) are gaining popularity and guiding a shift from a culture of training to a culture of competence. “It’s really about demonstration,” Martin Payne, technical director – Americas for Petrofac Training Services, said at the 2012 IADC Health, Safety, Environment and Training Conference & Exhibition on 7 February in Houston. “It’s not just about going and doing training. It’s really about ‘Don’t tell me, show me.’ ”
People, Companies & Products
Posted on 15 March 2012 in 2012, Focused Microsites, March/April
FMC Technologies has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Control Systems International (CSI), which supplies control and automation system solutions…
Preserving our license to drill – IADC president Stephen Colville is ready to take the association to the next level
Posted on 15 March 2012 in 2012, Features, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, March/April, Videos
Preserving the energy industry’s license to operate in an era of increasing tendency toward much tighter regulations and perhaps unnecessary…
Outsmarting Mother Nature
Posted on 15 March 2012 in 2012, Features, Innovating While Drilling, March/April
The oil and gas industry has conquered many a force of nature in its history, but management of wellbore pressures remains among the trickiest challenges still being confronted on a daily basis in drilling operations around the world. From increasingly depleted land and offshore fields to the growing number…
Recent News
15 May 2012
Anadarko encounters natural gas; Golfinho area estimated to hold 13 to 45 Tcf of gas
Anadarko Petroleum’s Golfinho exploration well recently discovered a new, major natural gas accumulation nearly...
08 May 2012
BSEE looks to new BOP requirements, to hold forum on 22 May
A proposed rule for enhancing blowout preventer (BOP) requirements is one of four key next-generation...
08 May 2012
OTC event raises industry awareness for high school students
Approximately 200 high school math and science students from across Texas arrived at the 2012 OTC on...
08 May 2012
COS forges ahead on strategic plan
Third-party auditing and technical assistance to member companies are among several initiatives that are...
08 May 2012
Fit-for-purpose rigs, unconventionals drive Statoil production goals
Statoil is directing its fit-for-purpose rig fleet and technology strategy to help reach a production goal of more than...