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Cementing: Taking in lessons learned
Posted on 18 March 2013 in 2013, CurrentFeatures, Features, Innovating While Drilling, March/April, Onshore Advances
Hydrocarbon production is a risky business, and nowhere is this more evident than in the deepest, darkest waters on the planet, where some of the brightest prospects for the future lie miles beneath the surface. High pressures and temperatures, extended laterals and unstable reservoirs are…
Harsh environments, extended drilling envelopes steer drill pipe evolution
Posted on 18 March 2013 in 2013, CurrentFeatures, Features, Innovating While Drilling, March/April
Just as wells have become longer and more complex, drill pipe is not what it used to be. Improved steel grades and connections for conventional pipe, advanced materials for extreme environments, wired drill pipe…
Latin America: Growth expected across the board
Posted on 18 March 2013 in 2013, CurrentFeatures, Features, Global and Regional Markets, March/April, The Offshore Frontier
Picture Latin America as a quilt. In unison, the pieces come together to form a vibrant and vast region, but separately, every patch tells a story all its own. “Each country has different needs and challenges regarding…
Environment and drilling: It’s not one or the other
Posted on 18 March 2013 in 2013, CurrentFeatures, Features, March/April
Like the path that has been taken to achieve safer operations, industry has come a long way in improving its environmental performance, taking incremental steps that are adding up to significant change…
Plenary session to explore impact of stakeholders’ growing expectations, heightened public awareness
Posted on 30 January 2013 in 2013, Features, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, January/February
The 2013 SPE/IADC Drilling Conference and Exhibition, 5-7 March in Amsterdam, will provide leading industry thinkers…
Critical Issues in Drilling & Completions
Posted on 30 January 2013 in 2013, Features, January/February
For all the big iron the drilling industry has spent billions of dollars building that can lift millions of pounds and drill miles beneath the earth’s surface, for all the highly sophisticated downhole technologies that can match anything in the aerospace or nuclear industries, much of our efforts are now…
Deeper waters, LNG prospects gain momentum
Posted on 30 January 2013 in 2013, Features, Global and Regional Markets, January/February
Asia Pacific is stepping out of its comfort zone. Long a region with plenty of shallow, easy-to-tap conventional resources, the market has begun a transition, shifting focus to more complex and risky ventures such as deepwater, high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) reservoirs and…
2013 IADC chairman David Williams: Safety is not negotiable
Posted on 30 January 2013 in 2013, Features, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, January/February
In life, sometimes you have to be at the right place at the right time in order to get to that next step. But a lucky break is never enough; it’s what you do once you get that break…
Completing the shale puzzle
Posted on 30 January 2013 in 2013, Completing the Well, Features, January/February
It’s no secret that unconventional shale production is booming in North America, and the news keeps getting better as industry continues expanding into new oil and liquids-rich plays. So bullish is the outlook for shale oil, the International Energy Agency…
Optimism strong despite market uncertainties
Posted on 02 November 2012 in 2012, Features, Global and Regional Markets, November/December
Trumpets or fireworks may be absent in celebrating substantial industry growth as 2012 concludes, but that’s no matter. Over the past 12 months, industry solidified its footing after facing significant regulatory and economical challenges over the previous couple of years…
Recent Drilling News
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