May/June 2015
| IADC: Global Leadership |
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| IADC leads drilling industry into new era of well control training with launch of WellSharp By Amy Rose, Director External Relations, IADC |
| WADI advances in Brazil, Malta By Amy Rose, Director External Relations, IADC |
| Offshore Market and Technologies |
| Five years after Macondo Significant progress has been made to improve offshore safety, but industry realizes that the journey is not over By Alex Endress, Editorial Coordinator
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| Moonpool dance on the Pacific Santa Ana: Subsea MudLift Drilling system deployments pave path to deepwater DGD By Frédéric Jacquemin, Pacific Drilling, and Dale Straub, Chevron |
| New riser safety system enables effective contingency riser gas handling, MPD in deepwater By Max Yeo, Alex Macgregor, Henry Pinkstone, Managed Pressure Operations |
| Industry needs standards for cement plug testing, placement to bump up deepwater efficiency By Michael Trogus, Shell Exploration and Production, and Douglas Farley and Gregory Gaspard, Weatherford |
| Integration of knowledge, experience make for effective relief well contingency planning By John Wright, Wild Well Control |
| Regional Focus: Gulf of Mexico |
| Eyes on the long term in US Gulf of Mexico Utilization, dayrates both sharply down, though floaters are seeing more insulation due to longer-term contracts By Kelli Ainsworth, Editorial Coordinator |
| Onshore Drilling |
| US shale production expected to rise even as rig count tumbles Operators, contractors focus on high-grading crews and rigs, drilling optimization to lower costs and prepare for the next upturn By Kelli Ainsworth, Editorial Coordinator |
| Coalition challenges data in US agencies’ sage grouse reports By Kelli Ainsworth, Editorial Coordinator |
| Global Drilling Outlook |
| No end in sight for market volatility In the face of continued supply increases, reduced CAPEX spending and record-high storage, industry begins to organize itself around lower prices for the longer term By Katie Mazerov, Contributing Editor |
| Completions |
| Open-hole completion innovations push efficiencies in shales Longer laterals, rising stage counts drive uptake of open-hole systems in areas like Bakken, Granite Wash By Katie Mazerov, Contributing Editor |
| IADC Connection |
| From the Chairman: Next upturn hard to see amid weak market, but industry must stay the course to come out stronger By Ed Jacob, IADC 2015 Chairman |
| Wirelines |
| News Cuttings |
| Departments |
| Drilling Ahead: Collaboration reaps benefits for industry By Mike Killalea, Editor & Publisher |
| D&C News |
| D&C Tech Digest |
| HSE&T Corner: Applying lessons from golf to well control training: Practice must be strategic and reinforce the right habits By Bill Murchison Jr, Murchison Drilling Schools |
| People, Companies and Products |
| EXCLUSIVE WEB CONTENT Perspectives – Ronald Sweatman, RS Consulting: ‘Well Cementing Operations’ to fill knowledge gap for engineers, rig crews By Alex Endress, Editorial Coordinator |