April 2009
Special Focus
Spotlight on new technology
- Baker Hughes Inc. receives two Spotlight awards for fourth consecutive year
- Subsea electronics module offers better communication
- Coil shooting enhances WAZ and MAZ techniques
- System combines freshwater injection and crude-freshwater mixing
- Pulse technology extends battery life
- Dynamic curvature sensor detects problems early
- Power suction tool more effective at debris recovery from producing wells
- Subsea monitoring systems record buckling
- Industry’s first one-trip Level 4 multilateral system
- Diamond radial bearings offer greater abrasion resistance
- LNG loading system allows new transfer methods
- New method challenges drilling limitations
- Acoustic system provides full control for subsea BOP equipment
