July/August 2007

European Drilling Outlook
EXCLUSIVE WEB CONTENT Evolving Frontiers Click here for an Odfjell Drilling video about onshore support centers.
Global market pushes mature North Sea into new era
North Sea diversity means no silver bullet will unlock reservoirs
Seadrill, Rowan, KCA DEUTAG discuss chanlenges ahead in European operations
EXCLUSIVE WEB CONTENT Ormen Lange leads North Sea innovation with big bore, deepwater gas wells
Innovative Drilling
EXCLUSIVE WEB CONTENT HPHT Operations pose escalating challenges for operators supplies
Multi-service system achieves new level of pressure contorl in shallow gas well
EXCLUSIVE WEB CONTENT Changing the look and feel of UBD
MPD with DAPC system proves successful on Auger TLP redevelopment
Short-radius drilling: a decade of development
Advances in composite drilling components
Well Control
Absence of blowout fatalities encouraging in MMS OCS study 1992-2006
Risk assessment, kick modeling mitigate well control risk events
Case study of preventable fatal shallow gas blowout
New dynamic low choke method
Global Drilling
Myanmar drilling market flourishes with new global players
Fracturing and Stimulation
Open-hole system enables multi-stage fracturing, stimulation
Hydraulic fracturing:overview, trends, issues
Offshore Market & Outlook
EXCLUSIVE WEB CONTENT Who gets what in offshore drilling?
Completions
EXCLUSIVE WEB CONTENT Ultra-HP completion tubular developed for Tahiti field
IADC Connection
Annual ASP report
EXCLUSIVE WEB CONTENT Contractor of the Year Click here to see footage of Mr. Burns accepting the award at the IADC Contractor of the Year Luncheon, held in Houston on 7 March 2007.
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