Archive | Downhole Technologies
Innovative logging technique boosts productivity for Chevron Thailand
Posted on 24 November 2009 in Downhole Technologies, News, Offshore Operations, Regional Market Trends
Under rig floor logging (URFL) is a technique pioneered by Chevron Thailand that has improved drilling efficiency…
Drilling & Completion Tech Digest
Posted on 12 November 2009 in 2009, Departments, Downhole Technologies, News, November/December
BJ Services Company has successfully installed the first InjectSafe chemical injection system with DynaCoil capillary injection strings offshore in two wells in Europe…
Shoulder/thread verifier system uses thermal imaging to detect potential connection problems
Posted on 09 November 2009 in 2009, Downhole Technologies, Innovating While Drilling, November/December
A new shoulder/thread verifier system (STVS) uses thermal imaging technology to enable verification of the shoulder, thread and seal engagement…
D&C Tech Digest
Posted on 03 November 2009 in 2009, Departments, Downhole Technologies, Innovating While Drilling, July/August
Huisman rig completes 1st well in 6 weeks; drills surface hole using drilling with casing Huisman’s newly developed containerised drilling rig, the LOC 400, operated by the Northern Dutch Drilling Company (NDDC) for Northern Petroleum Netherlands (NPN), successfully completed its first well in Werkendam, The Netherlands. The unit drilled the well to a TD of [...]
Performance drilling – definition, benchmarking, performance qualifiers, efficiency and value
Posted on 03 November 2009 in 2009, Downhole Technologies, July/August
Drilling programs continue to be pushed into harder and more abrasive formations while directional drilling activities have become more complex.
D&C Tech Digest
Posted on 02 November 2009 in 2009, Departments, Downhole Technologies, Rig Equipment, September/October
Weatherford International and ENI have entered an agreement to develop a subsea drilling-with-casing system. It will enable a 20-in. casing string…
Accurate wellbore trajectory delivers 70% more reservoir contact with Gullfaks sidetrack well
Posted on 02 November 2009 in 2009, Downhole Technologies, September/October
The Gullfaks field is located in the central part of the East Shetland Basin in the Northern North Sea and was discovered in 1979. The StatoilHydro-operated field…
Innovations in acquisition geometries, telemetry improve complex imaging, seismic logging
Posted on 02 November 2009 in 2009, Downhole Technologies, September/October
WesternGeco has developed a new single-vessel method of acquiring seismic data over a wide range of azimuths that the organization says improves the efficiency…
Defining drillstring specifications to maximize safety, performance in sour service environments
Posted on 30 October 2009 in 2008, Downhole Technologies, September/October
By Anne Sevignon and William Gamisans, VAM Drilling The evolution of drilling programs has driven the industry to develop more suitable solutions adapted to extreme and aggressive environments such as sour service. High-strength drill pipe is necessary to achieve deeper drilling objectives, even if the sulfide stress cracking susceptibility is an acknowledged concern starting with [...]
Service company geomechanics group: Knowledge integration is our objective
Posted on 30 October 2009 in 2008, Downhole Technologies, September/October
In today’s high-cost drilling environment, the lack of integration of valuable pore pressure or other reservoir information can cost a company millions of dollars, said Colin Sayers, scientific advisor for Schlumberger’s geomechanics group. He cited an example of one oil company where the geophysics department never told the drilling department about a small fault above [...]
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