Issue: June 2017
Special Focus
A North Dakota operator took advantage of the recent slowdown, to take a fresh look at its Bakken completion design. Utilizing public data and shared industry learnings, a new recipe was developed that yielded a 23% production uplift in its first application.
Multiple completion technologies can be combined in one well for a hybrid solution to improve stimulation in extended reach laterals.
Features
Part 2: In this second of two monthly reports, the authors highlight innovations in ESPs, PCPs, plunger lift and gas lift systems, plus new developments in power, automation, control and monitoring systems.
Offshore Abu Dhabi, UAE, successful implementation of multiple firsts for the service team and its customer—the longest lateral section; the first application of a CaBr2 fluid system; and a field record ROP—was achieved.
Uniquely non-welded wear bands reduced friction and wear, helping to increase ROP.
Bolstered by the eagerly-awaited start-up of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), the takeaway bottleneck that trapped Bakken-Three Forks producers behind an economic eight-ball is evaporating and taking pricing differentials with it.
By surface area, Russia is the world’s largest country, and it also contains the globe’s largest natural gas reserves.
Earlier this year, one of the world’s first dynamic umbilicals was retrieved from deep water, offshore Europe, after 17 years’ deployment. As part of an overall investigation of the umbilical, the stainless steel tubes were tested, providing insight into the durability of the alloy in subsea conditions.
A new plug system is designed to help operators plug and abandon wells more safely, more efficiently, and more economically, by increasing hang-off loads, reducing rig site handling, and enabling pressure testing, both above and below the plug.
Columns
Natural gas output in the northeastern U.S., principally Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio, has grown rapidly, sparked by shale gas development.
Fossil fuels have been on the wrong side of environmental stewardship for a number of years, according to many.
When oil and gas prices began to drop in 2014, companies, including Tesco Corporation, intensified their efforts to reduce drilling costs and improve rig efficiency.
It was bound to happen—exploration litigation for everyone. Do you have some emotion about an experience with your former employer or partners?
An ever-growing catalog of water-treatment and reuse technologies, intended to solve Hydraulic Fracturing Problem Number One, has prompted out-of-the-box thinkers to ask themselves a tantalizing question: Do we have to use water in the first place?
It is that time again. A new administration in Washington, a new federal budget and its priorities being proposed, and tax reform being debated, have all joined to bring the subject of energy subsidies, yet again, to the forefront.
Growing up financially underprivileged in the Houston suburb of Tomball, Texas, Duke VanLue, founder and CEO of Downhole Technology, LLC, was never a stranger to hard work and perseverance.
Recent major discoveries in the Atlantic, off Guyana’s coast, promise an oil revenue boom as early as 2020.
Present some off-the-rack drilling software to an EOG Resources hand, and you’re likely to be met with no less indifference than had you offered up a floppy disk, or pointed out directions to the nearest phone booth.
In 2014, the U.S. shale boom was raging, and benchmarks were hovering around $100-$110/bbl. But Saudi Arabian oil minister Ali Al-Naimi sensed danger in U.S. shale development.
News & Resources
Dong Energy has divested its upstream business, DONG E&P, to Ineos for $1.05 billion.
OPEC agreed to extend its output cuts for another nine months. Libya and Nigeria, which have boosted output since January, will continue to be exempt from the arrangement.
Weir Oil & Gas has appointed Ronan Le Gloahec as managing director of the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) regions. Based in Dubai, Le Gloahec will lead the company’s business unit.
Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) has signed a five-year contract with Shell Brazil for light subsea construction and inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) services.
Vallourec has released VAM X-Force, a high performance drilling connection that is designed to drill in the most challenging environments.
