Drilling
This study identifies critical knowledge gaps in wellbore integrity and underscores areas that require further investigation, providing insights into how wellbores must evolve to meet the technical demands of the energy transition.
This study illustrates the new capabilities, tailored for CO₂ storage applications, of a modeling framework that provides a quantitative, risk-based assessment of the long-term integrity of legacy plugged and abandoned wells.
Two critical facets of the discipline of well control and wellbore integrity—decarbonization and groundbreaking automation of essential processes—are highlighted in the three primary paper selections presented at SPE and SPE-affiliated conferences during the past year.
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This paper discusses tools and techniques used to localize a tubing leak in a horizontally completed multilateral well, identifying the bore responsible for sand production and providing relative sand quantification at differing flow rates. -
This paper describes the application of learnings from an offshore project in the Caspian to an underground gas storage project to enhance drilling performance.
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The heated global jackup rig market has day rates for premium units climbing higher.
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The Oklahoma independent agreed to acquire the assets of three private companies in its quest to scale up in the Permian's Delaware Basin.
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The heated global floating rig market has day rates for high-end units climbing over a half million dollars and toward a newbuild cycle that will (likely) never come.
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The winners of this year’s Drillbotics competition are teams from the University of Stavanger and Clausthal University of Technology. Thirteen teams registered last fall, coming from seven countries spanning four continents.
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The UAE's biggest oil company said it has successfully delivered a pair of geothermal wells to help power cooling systems in Abu Dhabi.
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The Caspian Sea's newest platform is equipped with automation technology and will be controlled remotely from an onshore station.
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Uganda is on course to become the newest African oil exporter by 2025.
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The US onshore business is looking flat at the moment, though these sorts of predictions are prone to sudden shifts.
