Issue: October 2018
Special Focus
Advancements in electronics and sensor technology, sophisticated algorithms, and high-speed telemetry are leading the way to automated drilling.
Advancements in wireless communications have enhanced real-time drillstring measurements, resulting in improved autodriller control. Field tests document that the system can increase BHA stability, improving ROP in deeper hole depths and verifying the technology’s benefit in extended-reach wells.
Advances in drilling technology are helping to unlock challenging reservoirs and achieve the industry-wide goal of maximizing economic recovery. This article discusses the importance of innovation and collaboration for the industry moving forward, and how new technologies are maximizing efficiencies and reducing costs.
Features
In the past decade, PDC bits have overtaken the market in applications where roller-cone bits were traditionally the bit of choice. Major factors in this paradigm shift have been advancements in PDC cutter manufacturing and leaching technologies.
Despite suffering a major loss of revenue during the downturn, the OFS sector has done an exemplary job of funding R&D and launching new drill bit technologies designed to improve ROP and useful bit life.
A suite of permanent monitoring products takes well monitoring one step further by providing accurate, reliable and cost-effective multi-point temperature and pressure sensing.
Some 350 mi and a gaping civic and developmental fissure separate the unconventional cores of the Denver-Julesberg (DJ) and Uinta basins.
Given the opportunity that analytics present, and the pressures facing oil and gas producers, the question isn’t, “Can analytics help improve our operations?” but rather, “How long can we compete without them?”
For producers to survive and stay profitable, companies are now more focused on efficiencies and costs. These pressures are prompting operators to speed up adoption of digitally enabled solutions, to improve productivity and safety.
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remain the quintessential oil exporting region, replete with considerable assets and tensions.
Columns
A job done well
There is sand, and then there is sand
Where are the oil reserves?
Windows to the hole
Let’s party
21st century commercialization: Where are we now?
John Costagna: Fostering the industry’s human intelligence
Everything old is new again
News & Resources
LNG Canada—with JV partners Shell (40%), Petronas (25%), PetroChina (15%), Mitsubishi Corp. (15%) and KOGAS (5%)—have taken FID on Canada’s first large-scale export facility in Kitimat, British Columbia. According to LNG Canada, the export plant has been designed to achieve the lowest carbon intensity of any major plant operating in the world today.
Russian oil production hit a post-Soviet high in September, when the country rolled back OPEC limits and pushed output up to 11.36 MMbpd.
Hal J. Goldie has been appointed to the board of Enpro Subsea, based in Houston. With a career that spans almost 50 years in the industry, Goldie was previously president at Cameron Subsea Systems.
Norway’s largest and longest pipeline, laid by the vessel Saipem Castorone, has reached Johan Sverdrup field.
Nine Energy Service has rolled out enhanced SkyView wireline trucks.
