Drilling
News
January 06, 2021
The decision is a victory for the administration, which has been racing to issue oil leases in the refuge’s coastal plain before the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.
News
December 30, 2020
The number of rigs drilling for oil in the U.S. closed out 2020 at 267, according to Baker Hughes Co. data released December 30th. It’s the lowest end-of-year figure since 2005, when drilling and fracking breakthroughs perfected in natural gas regions like North Texas’s Barnett shale were just beginning to be deployed.
News
December 25, 2020
World Oil editors discuss The North Face doubling down on its principled stand against well-paying American jobs, Russia wants to see OPEC+ production rise in February, and U.S. land regulators shrink Alaskan oil lease acreage.
News
December 22, 2020
The Nordic government beat back a lawsuit by environmental groups in the country’s Supreme Court, which ruled on Tuesday the authorities had acted lawfully by awarding exploration licenses in the Barents Sea to companies including Equinor ASA, Aker BP ASA and Lundin Petroleum AB.
Article
December 2020
While the various and constantly evolving Biden/Harris promises to ban hydraulic fracturing—at one level or another—dominated the narrative during the general election campaign, the approach they will choose to take on a range of oil and gas issues, now that they are in a position of power, will come into sharp relief.
Article
December 2020
U.S. shale drillers lead the world—but even so, investing to improve drilling efficiency, well design, and back-office functions can deliver returns that far outweigh the costs.
Article
December 2020
When a pad well blows out, other nearby wells are in danger of blowout, posing a unique risk. Cascade failures require synergistic use of technologies and specialized expertise to properly respond to, and secure, multiple well blowouts.
News
December 16, 2020
On Dec. 14th, the groups filed requests with an Anchorage judge for a preliminary injunction to prevent the Interior Department’s planned Jan. 6 auction of oil and gas leases across the refuge’s 1.56-million-acre coastal plain.
News
December 15, 2020
Home to the Bakken shale formation, North Dakota won’t see any sustained growth in production sooner than the second half of 2022, Lynn Helms, director of the state’s Department of Mineral Resources, said.
Article
December 2020
A survey-while-drilling service performs definitive dynamic analysis as the BHA rotates, providing significant rig-time savings compared to conventional static MWD surveys. The ability to see continuous real-time borehole conditions optimizes drilling, reduces risks and eliminates survey-related NPT.
Article
December 2020
A new triangulation method, using MWD survey data, provides operators a viable ranging and homing option for well control contingency planning.
Article
December 2020
Unique geomechanical modeling technique mitigates geological and drilling-related risk in basins with layered evaporite sequences, which are not amenable to traditional structural analysis methods.
News
December 04, 2020
Total has been selling assets to curb debt as plunging oil and gas prices sap earnings, including oil field assets in Brunei and the UK, as well as a stake in a renewables subsidiary in France.
News
December 03, 2020
A formal “notice of sale” is set to be published in the Federal Register on Dec. 7. The move is in keeping with a congressional mandate to hold two auctions of oil and gas leases in the refuge’s coastal plain by Dec. 22, 2024.
Article
October 2020
World Oil talks with PESA President Leslie Beyer about the key issues facing the sector in 2020 and beyond.
Article
October 2020
A new solution offers tool-free, 8-min. setup and reduces NPT in multi-well pad operations, thereby yielding more drilling time and lowering costs.
Article
October 2020
Dependable rotary steerable systems, tied to an effective drilling engineering process through digitalization and automation, are the foundation of a new era in directional drilling.
Article
October 2020
A capsized market achieves what activists couldn’t.
Article
October 2020
Continuous innovation in liner hanger development assists operators in overcoming liner installation and hanger integrity challenges.
