March/April 2014
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| Innovating While Drilling |
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| EXCLUSIVE WEB CONTENT A long and winding road Broad-scope advances in RSS, mud motors, bits, LWD/MWD push limits of directional drilling as automation vision takes shape by Katie Mazerov, contributing editor |
| Dual-gradient system ensures quality cement job in North Sea well by Katie Mazerov, contributing editor |
| OMV deploys first continuous circulation system in northern Iraq by Martin Cullen and Clayton Christensen, Blade Energy |
| Highly sour fields push challenges for H2S-resistant pipe by Vincent Flores, Vallourec Drilling Products |
| Predictive system helps wells adapt to changing formation pressures by Brian Piccolo, Pat Savage, Henry Pinkstone, Christian Leuchtenberg, MPO |
| Push-the-bit RSS drills high-angle section in one run for PDVSA by Jorge Luis Hernández Jurado, PDVSA, and Cesar Figueredo, Schlumberger |
| Redesigned subs allow continuous circulation in MPD applications by Justin Cunningham, R.K. Bansal, Geoff George, Eisenhower De Leon, Weatherford |
| Coiled Tubing |
| EXCLUSIVE WEB CONTENT Going the distance Friction reducers, larger-OD tubing, selective perforation enhance coiled-tubing capabilities, applications by Joanne Liou, associate editor |
| CT-enabled frac sleeves boost completion efficiency in Bakken by Luis A. Castro, C. Christopher Johnson and Christopher W. Thacker, Baker Hughes |
| Completions: Sand Control |
| Keeping sand at bay Industry looks to new materials, integrated and intelligent solutions for deeper, multizone completions by Joanne Liou, associate editor |
| Integrated sand control modeling aids GOM multizone frac-pack by Hong Zhu, Kevin Joseph and Peter Chok, Baker Hughes |
| Regional Focus: Mediterranean |
| Stabilizing activity ushers positive outlook for Mediterranean by Katie Mazerov, contributing editor |
| IADC Connection |
| Guest Editorial: NSOAF audit finds that interfacing, bridging processes lack clarity in North Sea by Steve Walker, Chairman of North Sea Offshore Authorities Forum |
| News Cuttings |
| Wirelines |
| Departments |
| Drilling Ahead: When bad things happen to good teams by Linda Hsieh, managing editor |
| D&C News |
| D&C Tech Digest |
| HSE&T Corner: Management must lead way to culture of commitment, not of compliance by Lauren Wolfson, editorial assistant |
| People, Companies and Products |
| EXCLUSIVE WEB CONTENT Perspectives: Cason Swindle, WCI – Impact of well control performance reverberates around the world by Lauren Wolfson, Editorial Assistant |