Drilling
Operators aren’t rushing to drill, even as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz drives oil prices up.
Drilling experts recently shared candid views on what will be required for their segment of the upstream business to move to the next stage of development.
This year, we observed a notable increase in activity centered on physical technologies, including cementing tools, zonal isolation barriers, and cement evaluation systems.
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Can a camera on the drill floor, or one on a mobile phone, measure what is going on during drilling or evaluate drill-bit wear more consistently than a human? -
When Hess, Halliburton, and Nabors sat down to create a single plan to stream on the driller’s display, they needed to work out a lot of differences, including the definition of the word "activity."
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SPYDR, MetaRock team up with Pioneer Natural Resources for a pilot program in the Permian Basin to test real-time fluid monitoring.
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The two companies have agreed to team up so their most-valued drilling-automation programs can be used together easily. The relationship has shined a bright light on drilling automation.
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Offline cementing was used to develop a marginal field in Malaysia. The development was made possible through distinctive wellhead technology and good operational planning.
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Whether considering the customization of drilling approaches in Middle Eastern carbonate reservoirs, implementing a collaborative work flow in tackling high-tortuosity wells offshore Western Australia, or researching the ability of a fibrous material to effect hole cleaning as opposed to polymeric sweeps, the authors of these papers understand that technical expertise…
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Effective use of downhole dynamics and mechanical specific energy data played a critical role in delivering a well that was the longest in the Middle East, and the fourth-longest globally, at the time of writing.
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This paper describes the path to implementation of full casing rotation during primary cementing jobs.
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A specialized fibrous material was examined and was found to be effective for hole-cleaning applications.
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This paper describes the path to implementation of full casing rotation during primary cementing jobs.
