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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SponsoredExtended reach wells provide access to otherwise inaccessible areas, improve production and reduce footprint. Advancements in completion technology allow producers to eliminate coiled tubing, perforation guns and milling out operations to lower project risks, costs, and environmental impact. -
In a natural pivot from oil and gas E&P, former oilfield executives are taking up the hunt for helium. Helium is used in a wide variety of products, such as rocket ships and computer chips, and, while there is still plenty left to find on Earth, finding quality commercial quantities can be a difficult task and reserves are running low.
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SponsoredBefore you pump materials down your well, be sure you fully understand the effectiveness of your friction reducers and gas migration slurries.
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The impact of orphan wells, both on the environment and on tightening budgets, is a growing concern in the industry. Boom times result in a vast uptick in wells drilled. In bust times, when companies disappear, the liability outlook for these probes gets murky and federal and state governments start looking for answers.
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Extended-reach drilling is becoming more of a mainstream technology as the industry seeks to squeeze difficult reserves and reduce the footprint of projects in fragile environments.
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Cube drilling was an exciting idea several years ago. Since then, the luster seems to have faded. Now, production software company Novi Labs says machine learning may bring life back to the concept.
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The deal adds 16 super-spec land rigs to Patterson UTI’s domestic fleet and will result in the sale of Pioneer’s well service business.
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The authors of this paper propose a new chemical treatment for efficient remediation of water- or hydrocarbon-phase-trapping damage in low-permeability porous media.
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Transocean has delayed the delivery of the first two drillships capable of drilling and completing wells requiting 20,000-psi pressure control and told investors they are arriving at a time when the demand for ultrahigh performance is coming back.
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The latest success for the ExxonMobil-led consortium is also adding drillships to support a 15-well campaign in the Stabroek Block.
