Current Issue: October 2020 ///
Special Focus
Vera Wibowo, Chandramani Shrivastava, Schlumberger
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.
Chris Gooch, Ulterra Drilling Technologies
An innovative PDC bit technology is improving motor and downhole tool reliability, while setting new performance records.
Marco Perez, Hector Vizcarra, Anurag S. Yadav, Weatherford
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
Jay Geist, Packers Plus Energy Services
Continuous innovation in liner hanger development assists operators in overcoming liner installation and hanger integrity challenges.
Jim Redden, Contributing Editor
A capsized market achieves what activists couldn’t.
Brandon Dodge, Weir Oil & Gas
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.
Juan Carlos Vergara, YPF; Emilio Langlois, Alberto Leal, Stephen Forrester, Gyrodata
Taking into account wellbore quality when planning new wells has driven the development of new technology that solves issues inherent in low-quality wellbores.
Dr. Hamed Darabi, Wassim Benhallam, Johanna Smith, Dr. Amir Salehi, Dr. David Castineira, Quantum Reservoir Impact; Dr. Emmanuel Gringarten, Emerson Automation Solutions
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.
Richard Beesley, Trelleborg Offshore
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.
Alec Walker, DelfinSia
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.
Rajeev Sonthalia, Schlumberger
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 E&P Sector
Ricardo Giamattey, Bruce Crager, Endeavor Management
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
Kurt Abraham, World Oil
Democracy on the edge
Willard C. (Bill) Capdevielle, P.E., Contributing Editor
It’s hard to fool Mother Nature….but not impossible!
Dr. Roger Bezdek, Contributing Editor
Oil and gas to the rescue
Jaclyn Herrera, Weir Oil & Gas
Connecting people in a disconnected world
Craig Fleming, World Oil
Let’s harvest public lands—responsibly