Drilling
Operators aren’t rushing to drill, even as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz drives oil prices up.
Drilling experts recently shared candid views on what will be required for their segment of the upstream business to move to the next stage of development.
In partnership with OTC 2026, Rystad Energy has shared its latest outlook for the offshore sector and the role it is expected to play in supplying low-cost barrels through 2050.
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Drilling, completion, production, and general surveillance are all areas that benefit greatly from remote real-time analysis. However, several challenges to remote services exist, including communications issues, fear of job loss, and working outside one’s comfort zone. What is considered an important development goal for a business might be regarded as a threat to an… -
Data-mining processes are fundamental in obtaining the predictive benefits of real-time systems and have been progressing from descriptive to predictive optimization methods.
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During the optimization process, the Castilla field became the model of management strategies for the rest of the fields in the company portfolio.
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Integration of technology applications is paramount in increasing the success rate of data delivery.
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The general industry perception is that, when drillstrings or casing strings exceed conventional helical-buckling criteria, they cannot be operated safely in the hole because the risk of failure or lockup is too high.
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The producing assets of unconventional shale-gas and shale-oil plays in North America are among the strategic alternatives for future growth of exploration-and-production companies.
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ExxonMobil, operator for the Sakhalin-1 project, planned an additional drilling campaign at the Chayvo field, Sakhalin Island, Russia.
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In 2012, the number of unconventional tight gas/shale and high-pressure/high-temperature (HP/HT) papers continued to grow. This year, we had some very interesting developments in these and other areas of well construction.
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This case history presents the highly challenging extended-reach deepwater well, Ursa A-10, drilled in the Ursa (Latin for bear) prospect in the US Gulf of Mexico (GOM).
