Drilling
Article
March 2020
A hybrid UBD/MPD solution for an unconventional gas exploration project proves to mitigate hazards, improve safety, and make future drilling campaigns economically viable.
Article
February 2020
In today’s environment, the need to expedite wellbore construction has been supplanted by the requirement to drill boreholes more intelligently. A real-time wellbore guidance technology offers operators and service companies a means of improving precision and accuracy in wellbore placement.
Article
February 2020
Improved offshore activity, coupled with significant conventional oil development programs operated by NOCs, should push drilling marginally higher in 2020.
Article
February 2020
As wellbores and drilling operations have become more complex, drill bit development must keep pace to meet increasingly difficult performance requirements.
Article
January 2020
Into the brink
News
January 17, 2020
Oil production in Angola has slumped by a third in the past decade to less than 1.4 million barrels a day, reflecting years of underinvestment in new projects.
News
January 14, 2020
The well in Angola’s Block 48 will be drilled at a new world record water depth of 3,628 m. The current world record is 3,400 m, set by Maersk Voyager’s sister drillship Maersk Venturer when it drilled the Raya-1 well for Total offshore Uruguay in 2016.
News
January 10, 2020
Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract for the 7th generation drillship Maersk Valiant which will be employed by Noble Energy for a one-well campaign offshore Colombia.
Article
December 2019
The rig is a little taller than the driller, and the bit fits in the palm of his hand. Designed, built and operated by a team of university students, the miniature drilling system is making hole for SPE’s international Drillbotics competition. Their objective is to autonomously drill a directional well to plan, as quickly as possible, while maintaining borehole quality, and integrity of the rig and drillstring.
News
January 02, 2020
Hess rose above the carnage in shale stocks with a more traditional approach to oil exploration – partnering in a massive offshore discovery in a frontier nation.
News
January 02, 2020
A drive to drill new wells at 20 “priority” fields in Mexico largely using smaller, local service providers is faltering, with Pemex expected to re-bid some of the work in the year ahead.
Article
December 2019
A team of dedicated field engineers utilized specialized turbine technology to dredge a lake bed, to uncover a sufficient length of competent production casing, to accommodate a modified surface capping stack, and secure the well.
Article
December 2019
Engineers examine the importance of advanced simulation to enhance well barrier design and maximize well control.
News
December 20, 2019
TGS announced the completion of a new multibeam and coring program covering over 213,0000 square kilometers in the Campos and Santos basins of offshore Brazil.
News
December 18, 2019
Maersk Drilling has received notification that Perenco is cancelling the previously announced three-well contract for the jack-up rig Maersk Resolute in the UK North Sea.
News
December 17, 2019
Maersk Drilling has secured a three-well contract for the semi-submersible rig Maersk Discoverer with BP for development drilling at the Matapal project offshore Trinidad and Tobago.
News
December 12, 2019
The 20,000-psi field development plan is based on eight subsea wells and two subsea drilling bases connected via two production loops to a newbuild, lightweight floating production unit.
News
December 11, 2019
Maersk Drilling has signed agreements with Halliburton and Petrofac to collaborate on a shallow and deepwater exploration program to be delivered under Maersk Drilling’s master alliance agreement with Seapulse.
