October 2015
Special Focus

Drilling speed: More savings to be had?

The lifting cost, or cost per barrel, becomes a hot topic when margins are squeezed by low crude prices. An interesting debate, in this context, is what can be done to drilling speed—are we close to theoretical limits, or are we still far off?
Nils Reimers / Tomax AS

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