Well integrity/control
This paper describes an automated workflow that helps mitigate sanding caused by excessive drawdown by determining the minimum tubinghead pressure.
![JPT_2025-09_GuestEd1_SS_382853197[4].jpg](https://assets.spe.org/dims4/default/b4eb909/2147483647/strip/true/crop/850x478+0+44/resize/320x180!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fspe-brightspot.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2F8a%2F95%2Fe4e82cb54fd597d497a5b1267f8a%2Fjpt-2025-09-guested1-ss-3828531974.jpg)
Intelligent completions could improve many of the world’s oil and gas wells, but not all are suited to the technology. There is another option.
This paper presents the characterization and comparison of a metakaolin-based geopolymer as a candidate treatment for remedial operations in oil and gas wells versus conventional state-of-the-art materials.
-
Australian technology developer MezurX is touting its newly introduced flow, density, and mud monitoring system as a significantly better alternative to the widely used Coriolis meter. -
On the basis of safety performance results achieved through automation downstream, an operator set out to achieve the same advances in its upstream business.
-
As deeper and more complex well designs proliferate throughout oil and gas fields, well completion methods are challenged and new technologies are emerging to ensure safe, cost-efficient, and optimized completions.
-
Well integrity and well barriers have been part of the exploitation for oil and gas for nearly a century, with the introduction of the blowout preventer (BOP) in the 1920s.
-
Well control training programs for deepwater drillers and key rig personnel are undergoing a major overhaul that has been years in the making.
-
More precise measurement can create a dilemma. One example is the precise fluid flow measurements used to control managed pressure drilling (MPD) systems.
-
After the 2010 subsea blowout of the Macondo well that resulted in 11 deaths and the worst oil spill in US history, early kick detection technology found itself at the top of the wish list for regulators and offshore companies seeking to avoid similar accidents.
-
Offshore drillers have been battered by the plunge in oil prices with falling day rates and a growing number of older rigs headed for demolition.
-
An ongoing research project started nearly 3 years ago by the US Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is shedding new light on what really happens to foamed cement as it is pumped deep down offshore wells during completions.
-
A large mature onshore Saudi Arabian oil field is producing sour crude oil that multiplies well-integrity challenges.
