Drilling
The company said that its AD-300, a 50-m-high automated island drilling rig that walks between wells, was delivered 3 months ahead of schedule.
A report commissioned by Havtil, the Norwegian Ocean Industry Authority, calls for better dialogue regarding pore-pressure uncertainty and higher-end drilling techniques like managed pressure drilling as methods to reduce the risk of well-control events.
Output is rising fast in the South American shale play and putting Argentina on a course to soon reach 1 million B/D.
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Dual-gradient drilling has long been described as the drilling method of the future for challenging offshore wells. Now, indications show it could start being used with some regularity. -
The variables defining drill-bit performance cover a lot of ground. There is a lot of attention given to cutters studding diamond drill bits, but just as important are what is in the rest of the drillstring and the decisions made by the driller.
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The vision of fully automated drilling rigs driven by big data gathered in real time looks so far off but there are people working on a road map to help the oil and gas industry find its way there some day.
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A previous attempt to drill an exploration well in ultradeep water in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) did not reach its objective.
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This paper describes the design, testing, installation, and performance of the first fully completed well using an intelligent inner completion inside an uncemented liner with openhole packers for zonal isolation.
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This paper presents a case history of a North Sea well in which managed-pressure drilling (MPD) was used as the enabling technology to drill, case, and cement the well.
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This paper describes placement of horizontal wells in this kind of heterogeneous reservoir through an integrated approach.
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The oil industry has always been innovative, even under adverse and challenging conditions imposed by the nature of upstream projects.
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This paper discusses the factors to be taken into account when designing cement jobs using fluids in turbulent flow and some of the overlooked benefits of using turbulent-flow design for mud removal.
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This paper describes the first application of the 10¾-in. CV in a deep-well sour environment.
