Drilling
This study aims to systematically assess casing integrity and corrosion risks associated with CO2 injection in oil-recovery operations.
This paper presents findings reinforcing the argument that acid fracturing is a strong alternative stimulation method to improve productivity in the Austin Chalk formation.
Output is rising fast in the South American shale play and putting Argentina on a course to soon reach 1 million B/D.
-
Drilling automation and innovation continue as dominant trends despite market downturns and unprecedented challenges in the past year. In many ways, the drive toward new efficiencies and step changes in well-construction performance has taken on an even greater sense of urgency.
-
The cutting-edge technological developments in geothermal are devoted to drilling into deeper, hotter, and harder rock. Oil and gas expertise and know-how holds the key to cost reduction.
-
The complete paper discusses a geophone array, including four, three-component geophones deployed by wireline, that provides a solution for this problem by creating a 3D map of the acoustic environment.
-
The complete paper presents a solution that integrates a physics-based torque-and-drag (T&D) stiff/soft string model with a real-time drilling analytics system using a custom-built extract, transform, and load translator and digital-transformation applications to automate the T&D modeling work flow.
-
The London-based company is seeking to restructure more than $3 billion in debt as it struggles to find work for its offshore fleet.
-
The complete paper discusses a new performance-evaluation methodology that combines bottomhole assembly (BHA) modeling with field data.
-
The complete paper presents a methodology designed for optimally matching drill bits, mud motors, and bottomhole-assembly components for reduced failure risks and improved drilling performance.
-
This paper explores the nature of the vibrational dysfunction known as BHA chatter. A field-proven frequency-domain model illustrates the cause of the dysfunction, its rotary-speed dependence, and mitigation methods and results.
-
Achieving and sustaining performance drilling’s intended benefits—improved drilling efficiency with minimal downhole tool failures and the associated reductions in project cycle time and operational costs—requires new protocols in drilling-system analysis.
-
A Canadian company reports that it has drilled and completed a historic horizontal well in Saskatchewan.