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Automation has been a key driver in the pace of change for drilling operations in recent years, but the adoption of new technologies can unveil complex challenges, particularly in assuring worker competency. Learn more in this video with Kevin Taylor, WellSafe System IT SME at Chevron...

Following its investigation of the January 2018 Pryor Trust incident in Oklahoma, the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) issued numerous recommendations on how drillers and regulators can work together to ensure better safety on rigs. At the 2020 IADC HSE&T Conference in Houston on 18 February, Chuck Barbee, Director of Recommendations with the CSB, spoke with DC about some of those recommendations, as well as the need for increased industry collaboration on safety.

Though industry has achieved significant cost savings at hydraulic fracturing sites in recent years, completions costs can often be twice as high as drilling costs. Optimizing frac pumping schedules through machine learning may prove valuable in bringing completions costs down.

With an influx of automation making its way onto the rig in recent years, drillers face the challenge of incorporating new equipment in their operations while maintaining a strong safety culture.

The exploration well will be plugged and abandoned after operator Karoon Energy announced the results. Marina-1 was the first well to be drilled at Block Z-38 in the Tumbes Basin. Karoon said no further drilling was planned for the block in the initial campaign.

The agreement for the continuation of drilling services for three Noble drillships currently operating in the basin: The Noble Bob Douglas, Noble Tom Madden, and Noble Don Taylor. Other drilling rigs may be added to the agreement.

While oil prices have rebounded slightly, they are still down significantly from the start of the year. IHS Markit reports that China, where the virus was first discovered, accounted for 14% of global oil demand and half of global oil demand growth in 2019...

The company said the tool has a feature that allows users to address and release it, even if the tool string is shorted below the tool. This feature reduces operational risk by maintaining the ability to release a tool should the string become stuck in the wellbore...

The program helped train workers in hazard awareness on SANAD’s land-based drilling rigs in Saudi Arabia. Virtual reality scenarios covered shutdown procedures, working and height, and working on the drill floor...

Talos Energy has contracted the Transocean Discoverer Inspiration, an ultra-deepwater dual-activity drillship, for its 2020 deepwater drilling and completions program in the US Gulf of Mexico. The Discoverer Inspiration rig will assist with the Bulleit completion and tieback project...