Drilling
Co-owner Chevron confirmed the find at the Bandit prospect offshore Louisiana and suggested it may become a subsea tieback to existing faciltiies operated by Occidental Petroleum.
The Orange Basin and Gulf of Guinea will see most of the high-impact drilling activity planned this year in Africa.
ExxonMobil will retain its equity stakes in ongoing Bass Strait projects even as it hands off its operatorship responsibilities to Woodside Energy.
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In the October 2021 issue of JPT, incoming SPE President Kamel Ben-Naceur discussed the importance of collaboration in solving technical problems quickly and efficiently. Three of the papers selected in this section are from collaborations between multiple companies pooling their expertise and resources to develop solutions for complex problems that could not be addre… -
This paper presents a screenout-classification system based on Gaussian hidden Markov models that predicts screenouts and provides early warning.
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This paper discusses the results of driller stress tests and the implementation of a system that assists the operator in kick detection, space out, and preparation for well shut-in.
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The authors describe a laboratory method for measuring cement expansion that has been used to evaluate the total bulk volume change of cement based on curing in a dry environment and in water.
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As the number of discoveries goes down and headwinds increase, the days of the US Gulf of Mexico megaproject could be numbered.
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Founded in 2008, GA Drilling is developing plasma-based tools to achieve drilling speeds that are about three times faster than what conventional bit technology has historically achieved.
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The DOI guidance explains how states can apply for the first $775 million in grant funding available this year under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to create jobs cleaning up polluted and unsafe orphaned oil and gas wellsites across the country.
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The DS-16 is one of four Valaris rigs undergoing reactivation work for new drilling contracts.
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Drillers are feeling good about higher oil prices, but only to a point.
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SPE Technical Directors Silviu Livescu and David Reid talk about the intersection of AI and drilling.
