Trendsetter Engineering and Add Energy have teamed up to develop the Relief Well Injection Spool (RWIS), designed to enable pumping of up to 200 bbl per minute of kill mud through a single relief well utilizing multiple vessels as opposed to the conventional method of multiple relief wells…
Cubility, a provider of solids control solutions, has launched CubeLink, a technology that aims to improve the transportation of drilling waste. CubeLink transports drilling waste directly from shale shakers or Cubility’s own MudCube…
Clint Galliano and André Rand of Halliburton; and Steve Sparling and Pat Watson of Anadarko Petroleum discuss how automated, real-time measurement of fluid density and rheology can enhance drilling operations. Offshore workers…
Castex Energy is set to fabricate and install a platform jacket over the Main Pass Block 270 #3 BP 1 well on its Hummer exploration prospect, in the Gulf of Mexico, according to partner Petsec Energy. The well is located about 50mi southeast of Venice…
Total's UK subsidiary (Total E&P UK Ltd) has been fined a record £1.125 million (US$1.67 million) after it admitted failures that led to largest release of gas on record from the Elgin offshore platform in 2012. The fine was passed down by the Sheriff Court in Aberdeen…
An accident onboard the drillship Pacific Santa Ana has left one worker dead. The news was confirmed by the US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), operator Chevron, and the drillship's owner, Pacific Drilling. The Pacific…
Claxton developed an extension module for its suspended well abandonment tool (SWAT), enabling Claxton and Acteon sister company, Offshore Installation Services Ltd. (OIS), to set deeper environmental and intermediate barriers. The existing…
Nanotechnology is a wide and growing field being researched and developed by both academia and industry alike. Elia Barnett spoke with researchers at University of Houston, Rice University, and Halliburton to see how far the technology has come…
Designer mud is helping Total tap pressure depleted HPHT reservoirs in the UK North Sea. Elaine Maslin takes a look. The West Franklin well head platform installation last year. Photos from Total…
Weatherford’s Steve Rosenberg and Ming Zo Tan demonstrate how drilling-with-liner technology isolated a depleted sand section in deepwater Gulf of Mexico well in one trip. The Weatherford Defyer…
Revamping older offshore rigs with modern technology positions them for more efficient and safer drilling to target depth. Weatherford’s James Onifade and Turkish Petroleum Oilfield Services’ Yilmaz Kum and Benhur Sahin explain. RCD…
Statoil awarded Cubility a US multi million dollar deal to provide the MudCube solution for installation on the Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea. The MudCube. From Cubility. The MudCube…
Enteq Upstream introduced the new Twin Electro-Magnetic Telemetry Systemfor high-speed electromagnetic (EM) MWD telemetry, as an alternative or supplement to mud pulse telemetry to transmit drilling data. The system enables the use of mud pulse and EM telemetry concurrently…
LR Senergy has updated its formation evaluation and well data interpretation tool, IP v4.3, featuring enhancements to key workflows plus advanced and new technologies that make IP v4.3 a well data interpretation package for multi-user…
Sperry Drilling, a Halliburton (HAL) business line, has introduced a 4-3/4 inch slimhole size to its XBAT LWD service. HAL’s portfolio now includes 4-3/4, 6-3/4, 8 and 9-1/2 inch tools, which allows the XBAT tool to service wellbore holes ranging from 5-3/4 to 36 inches…
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