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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As technology continue to evolve and reservoirs become more challenging to access, the drilling industry is further improving its efficiency and derisking operations through the use of artificial intelligence, lighter and stronger pipes, and sophisticated data analytics. -
This paper presents laboratory testing and application of a resin-cement system designed to be placed as a tail slurry to provide enhanced mechanical properties compared with a conventional slurry.
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This paper presents the completion strategy implemented in an intelligent well completed in Malaysian deepwater Block K.
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Private explorer Rhino Resources has tapped the oil services giant for upcoming Orange Basin campaign.
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The latest signs that momentum is building in the geothermal space include military bases.
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As the biggest US companies grow bigger, the advantage of scale becomes clearer.
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The national oil company credits lean operating practices and AI for making the three-well, 45,000 B/D project economically viable.
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SponsoredExpanding its portfolio of high-tier technologies, TAQA develops a high-performance perforation-plugging patented product.
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Enhancement to the drillship comes ahead of work commitment on Shell's Sparta development in the US Gulf of Mexico, its first in the Gulf to produce from 20K reservoirs.
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Derived from the principles of radial jet drilling, a new technology called micro-turbine drilling is developed to allow for drilling of micro-sidetracks from cased boreholes in very hard reservoir rock.
