Issue: October 2020
Special Focus
A new LWD tool system enables multiple high-resolution borehole images in nonconductive OBM, providing real-time geological characterization and inputs for drilling parameter optimization.
An innovative PDC bit technology is improving motor and downhole tool reliability, while setting new performance records.
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.
Features
Continuous innovation in liner hanger development assists operators in overcoming liner installation and hanger integrity challenges.
A capsized market achieves what activists couldn’t.
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.
Taking into account wellbore quality when planning new wells has driven the development of new technology that solves issues inherent in low-quality wellbores.
Effective reservoir management requires combining multiple engineering/geoscience disciplines to identify improvement opportunities. To optimize analysis, an AI-powered management platform was developed that delivers faster, more accurate results to maximize asset value.
World Oil talks with PESA President Leslie Beyer about the key issues facing the sector in 2020 and beyond.
How does a global industry respond to a global pandemic? In this roundtable, four experts with four different perspectives look beyond the economic impacts and consider how the experience of Covid-19 could change attitudes toward work, technology, the environmental agenda and the future of the energy sector, itself.
It has become essential to extend the service life of subsea pipelines and cables. New digital monitoring technologies are capturing data on motion and bending strain to mitigate damage to subsea infrastructure, to maximize asset life and ROI.
As the big crew change continues, operators have a wealth of digitally stored knowledge, for which less-experienced technical staff need innovative AI-based tools to efficiently access this valuable operational information.
By embracing openness while valuing partnerships and collaboration, and by sharing information and data, the E&P industry will develop better solutions quickly, and become more sustainable and responsible, faster.
Special Report: Analysis of Brazil’s O&G Sector
Part 1: Current challenges to unlock Brazilian oil and gas potential are huge, but as long as the government provides the right incentives, this time the long-awaited future may become a reality.
Columns
Democracy on the edge
It’s hard to fool Mother Nature….but not impossible!
Oil and gas to the rescue
Connecting people in a disconnected world
Let’s harvest public lands—responsibly
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