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News Cuttings

Stephen Whitfield — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 21:59:04 +0000

North Sea Chapter recognizes Safety Award winners, celebrates achievements The IADC North Sea Chapter recognized outstanding safety practice at its annual Safety Awards, held at P&J Live in Aberdeen, Scotland, on 21 March. An audience of 460 of the chapter’s primary members, associate members, industry partners and guests gathered to celebrate the following award winners: …

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Photo Gallery: SPE/IADC International Drilling 2025, 4-6 March 2025

Editorial Assistant — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:29:40 +0000

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Students discuss experience attending 2025 SPE/IADC International Drilling Conference in Norway

Stephen Whitfield — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 21:26:53 +0000

IADC is committed to developing the next generation of leaders in the drilling industry. As part of that commitment, the association routinely sponsors members of its Student Chapters to attend various conferences around the world, giving them the chance to network with drilling industry professionals and learn about the latest technologies driving the industry today. …

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Cultural shift needed for industry to better support oilfield workers’ mental health

Stephen Whitfield — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 21:26:21 +0000

Advocating for the mental health needs of drilling industry personnel is a top priority for Darren Sutherland, VP – Europe and Africa at Borr Drilling. As a Past Chair of the IADC North Sea Chapter, he spearheaded IADC’s Mental Health and Well-Being Charter, as well as the Mental Health in Energy Initiative. While those efforts …

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AI Driller automation platform designed to boost efficiencies for drillers

Stephen Whitfield — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:55:29 +0000

AI Driller, founded in 2019 as a startup company, provides a rig automation platform that uses well data stored on a cloud server to analyze and monitor drilling activity. The platform hosts software programs for managing mud motors; early detection of anti-collision risk, washouts and motor stalls; rotary and sliding automation; and directional planning. In …

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Ryan Smallwood, Patterson-UTI: Passion for service drives work to improve drilling safety

Stephen Whitfield — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 13:45:07 +0000

By Stephen Whitfield, Senior Editor For Ryan Smallwood, service to others has been a driving force for most of his life. He remembers being a 20-year-old in September 2001, moved by news footage of firefighters, police officers and emergency crews rushing to get people out of the wreckage of the World Trade Center. That desire …

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IADC’s new Riser Gas Handling Guidelines set to enhance safety of deepwater drilling operations

Stephen Whitfield — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 22:48:23 +0000

By Oscar Gabaldon, Blade Energy Partners; Gavin Humphreys, Stena Drilling; Paul Sonnemann, Safekick; and Mario Teixeira, Equinor In a landmark development for the deepwater drilling industry, the Gas in the Riser Subcommittee of the IADC Underbalanced Operations & Managed Pressure Drilling (UBO & MPD) Committee released its Riser Gas Handling Guidelines in August. These comprehensive guidelines …

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Perspectives: Stephen Foster, Scandrill – Moving from US Army to the oilfield opens new career opportunities

Stephen Whitfield — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 16:27:36 +0000

By Stephen Whitfield, Associate Editor The oil and gas industry draws folks from all walks of life to work in different disciplines, but when it comes to drilling, it is the men and women working on the rig who are the backbone of the business – the pressure washers, the floorhands, the motor hands and …

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Technical innovations, sensible policies vital to energy security

Stephen Whitfield — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 19:40:15 +0000

By Linda Hsieh, Editor & Publisher As we head into the winter season, it’s heartening to see to the world refocusing on the critical issue of energy security. For a long time, it seemed that our industry had done such a good job of finding and producing oil and gas that the world was taking …

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2018 IADC/SPE Drilling Conference abstracts

Linda Hsieh — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 21:36:28 +0000

Apply a unique approach and workflow to transform data into usable knowledge supporting multi-rig deepwater operations to aid the reduction of well cycle time and remain economically competitive during low cost oil environment. Maximize the utilization and concise visualization of surface digital data providing invaluable insight to achieve reliable, efficient and world-class performance excellence. Establish data-driven well construction optimization process to achieve rig operations consistency closer to the technical limit. ...

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