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Keiran Wulff was named successor to retiring Oil Search Managing Director Peter Botten, effective in February. He is currently Oil Search's executive vice president of Alaska and president of Oil Search Alaska. Wulff was appointed chief executive designate on 30 September and will retain his Alaska responsibilities until mid-December. He worked at Oil Search from 1993…

Marcelo Alves was appointed president of Rotating Equipment Services in South America at Sulzer, in addition to his role as managing director Brazil at the company. Alves has more than 25 years of experience in engineering solutions such as profit and loss management, operations, supply chain, engineering, manufacturing, and project management. He holds a BEng degree …

Petrobras board of directors elected Nicolás Simone as digital transformation and innovation executive officer. Simone is a software and systems engineer from ORT University, Uruguay, with extensive international experience and knowledge in information technology (IT), digital transformation, cyber security, artificial intelligence, omnichannel, customer relationship …

Measured-pressure approaches have offered much promise for some time but have been slow to reach widespread application. A spate of technical developments, deployments, trials, and applications, however, recently has pushed measured-pressure drilling and its nuanced variants to their full potential.

The types of advancements made in real-time drilling data acquisition and processing are now on the doorstep of the North American completions sector. Technology developers are banding together under the umbrella of “coopetition” in a bid to change the way producers fracture tight reservoirs.

Applications development in reservoir geomechanics has grown exponentially in recent years, taking advantage of significant computer breakthroughs. Data integration and multidisciplinary strategies are key to advancing integrated reservoir geomechanics capabilities.

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This paper presents lessons learned regarding design, testing, and installation of a completely integrated managed-pressure-drilling (MPD) control system on a deepwater drilling rig.

This paper presents the design considerations, methodology, and results of two deepwater MPC operations conducted to cement production casing strings within a target operating window of approximately three-tenths of a pound.