Drilling
The company’s new Retina imaging system creates high-resolution borehole images at the drill bit.
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Altitude Energy Partners optimized drilling efficiency by minimizing dysfunctions and protecting downhole components. Their directional drilling team ensured consistent curves and laterals through precise BHA design, modeling, and trajectory control—reducing nonproductive time and drilling costs, and achieving a 100% improvement in efficiency by pad completion.
Operator targets first oil 30 months after field sanction of $1.5 billion heavy-oil project that will use a refurbished wellhead platform and FPSO.
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The industry’s commitment to improve drilling efficiency and reduce operational costs is in full gear, yielding positive results, because of the new alignment and focus on cycle-time improvement. Holistic methodologies and solutions needed for this endeavor pose several questions that must be answered because clearer and complete pictures must be drawn for all challen… -
This paper highlights the potential of machine learning to be used as a tool in assisting the drilling engineer in bit selection through data insights previously overlooked.
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The authors write that simple changes in drillstring design can lead to huge savings in a climate that demands continual reductions in well-delivery time and well costs.
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The SPE Workshop “Impact of Digitalization on Drilling Operations” began on 29 November in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia, welcoming 316 attendees from 17 countries and 44 companies.
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Nabors' RZR-equipped rig has successfully drilled multiple horizontal wells in the Permian Basin.
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The Permian Basin operator said the purchase ‘checks all the boxes’ it looks for in an acquisition.
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Seven facilities design and public engagement principles are identified as key elements for the future oil and natural gas production facilities for the DJ Basin, and maybe even as a guide for other North American onshore shale basins.
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The deal upon closing at year-end would expand Marathon’s position in the south Texas shale play by 130,000 net acres.
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Remote operations and automation have reshaped the drilling landscape in recent years, but this may be just the beginning. Find out here which big milestones may be coming up next for the drilling sector.
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In this paper, β-cyclodextrin polymer microspheres, generally used for drug release and wastewater treatment, are evaluated as an environmentally friendly ultrahigh-temperature filtration reducer.
