Drilling
Geophysicist Markos Sourial discusses advances in seismic imaging, the challenges of modern data processing, and what they mean for the next wave of subsurface professionals.
Updates about global exploration and production activities and developments.
One major challenge for drilling-fluid engineers is the design and management of optimal drilling-fluid formulations in emerging frontiers—fractured formations and high-pressure geothermal environments. Recently, operators have leveraged cutting-edge technology such as machine learning and expanded data-driven techniques to facilitate the development of new drilling-f…
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This paper describes a collaboration between the operator and a service company that resulted in a successful deployment of an automation platform to manage risks and optimize drilling operations in exploration wells. -
This paper discusses novel acoustic techniques used to identify productive zones and areas of sand production in a well with a sanding event.
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This paper discusses the strategy, approach, and challenges faced in the adoption and implementation of an onsite and remote automated-drilling performance measurement.
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The Cypre offshore gas project announcement comes the day after the energy company renewed its supply contract with the country’s national gas company.
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ADNOC awarded a new round of contracts to international service companies, intending to apply directional drilling and LWD to boost production by getting a better assessment of its reservoirs.
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This paper highlights a tailored chemical treatment strategy developed for solids mitigation for a Delaware Basin operator.
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An automated detection application helped identify stringers early for an operator of a mature field in the North Sea while drilling multilateral wells through reservoir sections containing hard calcite stringers interspersed in sand formations with low unconfined compressive strength. The application guided drilling decisions that minimized invisible lost time and sh…
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Drillers are working to find ways to break some bad data habits. Those problems can range from the use of multiple formulas to calculate mechanical specific energy to timekeeping systems where the clocks and the time records are often off.
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ADNOC Drilling and ADNOC Logistics & Services have won the newest round of contracts to develop the mega sour-gas project that will expand the UAE’s production of LNG.
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It has often been considered risky to use heavy drillships in depths below 2,000 ft. However, a good measure of innovation and market timing has recently proved otherwise.
