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While the slowdown offshore persists, this 96-year-old drilling outfit says that sharing its high-tech simulators with more of its clients will strengthen the business.

Service company executives examine how the oil price downturn affected supply and demand for their services in the unconventional sector, and strategies they have undertaken to stay afloat as operators adjust to uncertainty.

Harry Barnum has been named a principal consultant and regulatory manager at InterAct. Barnum has more than 30 years' experience in the oil and gas industry, having managed all aspects of oilfield development including reservoir analysis, drilling and facility optimization, waterflood and steamflood injection program design, property valuation, regulatory and safety c…

Many of the worst oilfield incidents have been attributable to human factors. Consequently, a corporate well-control manual was refreshed to include human factors in the management of well-control incidents.

Adopting a robust set of Life-Sav­ing Rules can reduce fatalities and lost-time inju­ries.

In an effort to better understand well issues, a global offshore drilling contractor created a program of fully integrated deepwater-DP-drilling simulation exercises to scrutinize all critical aspects of deepwater well-control operations.

Wellbore-construction methods, especially casing-and-cementing practices for the protection of freshwater aquifers, have been reviewed in the Piceance, Raton, and San Juan Basins in Colorado.

Robots have the potential to move human operators away from uncomfortable, potentially risky environments and into comfortable, safe control rooms.

This paper describes the integrated approach taken by Petronas to reinforce effective management of fatigue.

A consortium of international and national Iraqi oil and gas companies took operatorship of the Qarmat Ali water-treatment plant. They engaged and responded to community expectations for social investment while addressing the effects of operations.

AMETEK Drexelbrook's Impulse wave-guided radar level systems generate total level, distance, or volumetric outputs, unaffected by variations in process material electrical characteristics. The wave guide option eliminates nozzle interference, negating the need for coaxial probe systems. The system's transmitters provide continous level measurement of liquids to ranges…

SpotSee, a global internet of things (IoT) and connectivity platform, has combined with ShockWatch, ShockLog, ShockTrak, WarmMark, and OpsWatch to create a tracking network that helps companies spot asset damage in real time. The SpotSee Cloud allows companies to utilize histograms, maps, directional impact analysis, and time studies of incidents involving their asset…