Drilling
A multidimensional Wiener process approach predicts casing remaining useful life, enabling safe, cost-effective well life extension and repurposing for carbon dioxide injection, CCS, and geothermal applications.
Equinor cites confined gas behind casing and calibration issues in investigation of Troll field well control incident.
The paper describes a multientry multistage fracturing technology developed to enable longer laterals, increase stage counts, improve stimulation efficiencies, and derisk operations.
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This paper delves into the evolving landscape of drilling automation, emphasizing the imperative for these systems to go beyond novelty and deliver quantifiable financial value. -
This paper describes the qualification of a multilayer, open-cell matrix polymer system for the first horizontal deployment in an offshore gas well.
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This paper describes installation of autonomous inflow control valves in the Bretaña Norte field in Peru, enabling effective water control even though the trial well was placed in the flank, close to the oil/water contact.
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This paper proposes a holistic, automatic, and real-time characterization of cuttings/cavings, including their volume, size distribution, and shape/morphology, while integrating 3D data with high-resolution images to pursue this objective for use in the real-time assessment of hole cleaning sufficiency and wellbore stability and, consequently, for the prediction, prev…
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This paper proposes a method to radically revise the well-path-generation process to reach the vision of planning a well in one day with high quality, relying on the collection of experience-based constraints from each discipline to generate possible alternatives.
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Investment in the Kingfisher and Tilenga upstream projects together with the East African Crude Oil Pipeline and a new refinery represents a $20-billion economic lift to the country.
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The highly anticipated SPE/IADC Asia Pacific Drilling Technology Conference was held in Bangkok and gathered over 1,000 professionals from the drilling and well technology communities across more than 30 countries.
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The company has agreed using its innovations in automation in an effort to derisk ultradeep offshore drilling for the Brazilian national oil company.
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The operator will utilize drillship Deepwater Invictus for both development and exploration drilling under a 3-year pact.
