Drilling

Design, implementation, and operation of the Cascade and Chinook field development project in ultradeep water in the Lower Tertiary play of the Gulf of Mexico.

Drilling, completion, production, and general surveillance are all areas that benefit greatly from remote real-time analysis. However, several challenges to remote services exist, including communications issues, fear of job loss, and working outside one’s comfort zone. What is considered an important development goal for a business might be regarded as a threat to an…

Recently, a series of instrumented perforation experiments demonstrated that existing cleanup models do not accurately predict perforation cleanup when perforating in a DUB condition.

Recently, while preparing to present a seminar on deepwater-well-construction optimization, I tried hard to find a word or a phrase that could be seen as “the secret” for a safe and optimized drilling performance.

Data-mining processes are fundamental in obtaining the predictive benefits of real-time systems and have been progressing from descriptive to predictive optimization methods.

During the optimization process, the Castilla field became the model of management strategies for the rest of the fields in the company portfolio.

Integration of technology applications is paramount in increasing the success rate of data delivery.

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The general industry perception is that, when drillstrings or casing strings exceed conventional helical-buckling criteria, they cannot be operated safely in the hole because the risk of failure or lockup is too high.

The producing assets of unconventional shale-gas and shale-oil plays in North America are among the strategic alternatives for future growth of exploration-and-production companies.