March/April Archives - 三昇体育 /2016/marapr2016 Get the latest oil drilling news with 三昇体育 Tue, 05 Apr 2016 15:21:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 202015461 If Greenpeace loves it, can we live with it? /if-greenpeace-loves-it-can-we-live-with-it-38594 /if-greenpeace-loves-it-can-we-live-with-it-38594#respond Mon, 04 Apr 2016 18:08:03 +0000 https://live-drillingcontractor-org.pantheonsite.io/?p=38594 The US offshore drilling industry is on pins and needles awaiting the release of the final well control rule produced by the US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE).

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]]> /if-greenpeace-loves-it-can-we-live-with-it-38594/feed 0 38594 Technology champions build up business case for MPD adoption while advancing automation, training /technology-champions-build-up-business-case-for-mpd-adoption-while-advancing-automation-training-38652 /technology-champions-build-up-business-case-for-mpd-adoption-while-advancing-automation-training-38652#respond Mon, 07 Mar 2016 16:54:57 +0000 https://live-drillingcontractor-org.pantheonsite.io/?p=38652 Although managed pressure drilling (MPD) continues to gain traction across the industry, it remains incumbent upon service providers and technology champions to build and prove a business case for MPD. This remains challenging due to the nature of the technology. One of its key benefits is minimizing or eliminating kicks and losses. However, proving that something didn鈥檛 happen can be difficult. 鈥淗ow do you quantify non-events? How do you quantify something that didn鈥檛 happen?鈥 asked Per Christian Stenshorne, EC-Drill Product Line Manager for Enhanced Drilling.

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]]> /technology-champions-build-up-business-case-for-mpd-adoption-while-advancing-automation-training-38652/feed 0 38652 VisiTrak services may eliminate need for pilot wells in wellbore placement /visitrak-geospatial-navigation-and-analysis-service-38568 /visitrak-geospatial-navigation-and-analysis-service-38568#respond Mon, 07 Mar 2016 16:54:57 +0000 https://live-drillingcontractor-org.pantheonsite.io/?p=38568 As operators continue to target increasingly complex geological formations in deepwater reservoirs, accurate and efficient horizontal wellbore placement has become essential to productivity. Conventional methods for mapping out wellbore placement involve drilling pilot wells, which can cost millions of dollars to drill. Baker Hughes aims to remove the need for such pilot wells, while also improving recovery, with the VisiTrak Geospatial Navigation and Analysis Service, commercially launched in July 2015. 鈥淭his represents the combination of two decades developing reservoir navigation,鈥 said Jon Skillings, Product Line Manager, Reservoir Navigation Services, Baker Hughes.

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]]> /visitrak-geospatial-navigation-and-analysis-service-38568/feed 0 38568 Cloud-computing, sophisticated models enhance meaning of downhole drilling data /cloud-computing-sophisticated-models-enhance-meaning-of-downhole-drilling-data-38575 /cloud-computing-sophisticated-models-enhance-meaning-of-downhole-drilling-data-38575#respond Mon, 07 Mar 2016 16:54:57 +0000 https://live-drillingcontractor-org.pantheonsite.io/?p=38575 Collaborative use of real-time telemetry to more effectively utilize the massive amount of data that is now available at the wellsite has been instrumental in taking drilling optimization to a new level in the past five years, according to David Johnson, VP, Research and Innovation for Petrolink. The company provides real-time data infrastructures that help operators and service companies manage and correctly use relevant information to analyze various drilling parameters, such as well hydraulics, torque and drag, vibration, bit selection and drilling fluids and rheology.

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]]> /cloud-computing-sophisticated-models-enhance-meaning-of-downhole-drilling-data-38575/feed 0 38575 Drilling & Completion News /38599-38599 /38599-38599#respond Mon, 07 Mar 2016 16:54:57 +0000 https://live-drillingcontractor-org.pantheonsite.io/?p=38599 Chevron subsidiary Unocal East China Sea has begun natural gas production from the first stage of the Chuandongbei Project in the Sichuan Basin of southwest China. Chuandongbei is one of the largest onshore gas projects developed by an international oil company and a national oil company in China.

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]]> /38599-38599/feed 0 38599 Drilling & Completion Tech Digest /drilling-completion-tech-digest-26-38606 /drilling-completion-tech-digest-26-38606#respond Mon, 07 Mar 2016 16:54:57 +0000 https://live-drillingcontractor-org.pantheonsite.io/?p=38606 Rice University鈥檚 Integrated Systems and Circuits (RISC) laboratory has developed a new generation of microchips, approximately the size of a grain of sand, that travels downhole through fracturing fluids to plot the cracks and pores through which oil and gas move to the surface. Activated by electromagnetic signals sent from an aboveground transceiver, the microchips return real-time data to create high-resolution maps of reservoirs and formations formed by hydraulic fracturing.

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]]> /drilling-completion-tech-digest-26-38606/feed 0 38606 Diamond Offshore, GE pursue step-changes in subsea BOP reliability, uptime through 10-year performance-based agreement /diamond-offshore-ge-pursue-step-changes-in-subsea-bop-reliability-uptime-through-10-year-performance-based-agreement-38611 /diamond-offshore-ge-pursue-step-changes-in-subsea-bop-reliability-uptime-through-10-year-performance-based-agreement-38611#comments Mon, 07 Mar 2016 16:54:57 +0000 https://live-drillingcontractor-org.pantheonsite.io/?p=38611 Diamond Offshore Drilling and GE Oil & Gas are turning tradition upside down with a first-of-its-kind contractual service agreement (CSA) aimed at increasing the economic viability of deepwater drilling.

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]]> /diamond-offshore-ge-pursue-step-changes-in-subsea-bop-reliability-uptime-through-10-year-performance-based-agreement-38611/feed 1 38611 Perspectives: Erin Welsh, Seadrill: Offshore work is not a career stepping stone but provides valuable opportunities for hands-on work, making real changes /perspectives-erin-welsh-seadrill-offshore-work-is-not-a-career-stepping-stone-but-provides-valuable-opportunities-for-hands-on-work-making-real-changes-38619 /perspectives-erin-welsh-seadrill-offshore-work-is-not-a-career-stepping-stone-but-provides-valuable-opportunities-for-hands-on-work-making-real-changes-38619#comments Mon, 07 Mar 2016 16:54:56 +0000 https://live-drillingcontractor-org.pantheonsite.io/?p=38619 For Erin Welsh, Technical Superintendent-Well Control Equipment at Seadrill, what started as a stepping stone became the foundation for a career.

She attended the Colorado School of Mines starting in 1992 and majored in engineering, with a specialty in mechanical engineering. Her intention was to design equipment.

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]]> /perspectives-erin-welsh-seadrill-offshore-work-is-not-a-career-stepping-stone-but-provides-valuable-opportunities-for-hands-on-work-making-real-changes-38619/feed 1 38619 Mechanical pressure relief system protects riser against overpressure during MPD, riser gas handling /mechanical-pressure-relief-system-protects-riser-against-overpressure-during-mpd-riser-gas-handling-38661 /mechanical-pressure-relief-system-protects-riser-against-overpressure-during-mpd-riser-gas-handling-38661#respond Mon, 07 Mar 2016 16:54:56 +0000 https://live-drillingcontractor-org.pantheonsite.io/?p=38661 Managed Pressure Operations (MPO) has designed and manufactured a redundant, mechanical pressure relief system for installation on the drilling riser to protect against overpressure during managed pressure drilling (MPD) and riser gas handling (RGH).

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]]> /mechanical-pressure-relief-system-protects-riser-against-overpressure-during-mpd-riser-gas-handling-38661/feed 0 38661 Data acquisition capabilities, durability enhanced in new crop of coiled-tubing, intervention tools /data-acquisition-capabilities-durability-enhanced-in-new-crop-of-coiled-tubing-intervention-tools-38667 /data-acquisition-capabilities-durability-enhanced-in-new-crop-of-coiled-tubing-intervention-tools-38667#respond Mon, 07 Mar 2016 16:54:56 +0000 https://live-drillingcontractor-org.pantheonsite.io/?p=38667 The need to keep pace with the increasingly long laterals that operators are drilling remains a driver for R&D efforts around well intervention and coiled tubing (CT). However, in the current price environment, that innovation must be coupled with the ability to lower costs. New CT and intervention technologies appear to be achieving such cost reductions by increasing equipment durability, which results in fewer trips out for replacement. In addition, more real-time data collection is being used to make real-time adjustments to maximize efficiency.

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