Completions
Article
July 2016
Underground gas storage wells are an essential component of the natural gas supply chain. The flexibility and resiliency provided by these storage wells are the key to maintaining reliable and responsive gas delivery, especially as demand has increased in the last several years, while supply has become more volatile.
Article
July 2016
Oil markets have driven down activity but not the advance of technology. In tough times when every efficiency and operational advantage can make a difference, service and manufacturing companies are focused on offshore innovations that drive hard to the bottom line. We turned to five leading service and manufacturing companies, and asked them to highlight the advances that were at the top of their lists. Their answers reveal vigorous innovation across a broad scope of offshore technologies that include drilling data, subsea production chemicals, specialized drill bits, MPD-ready rigs, subsea safety valves and gravel packs.
News
June 23, 2016
Rystad Energy expects horizontal oil completion activity in U.S. shale plays to outpace drilling operations by 30% in second-half 2016, resulting in the contraction of the DUC inventory by 800 wells.
News
June 23, 2016
Archer has launched the Point system, a well integrity resource that combines Archer’s proactive and systematic approach to integrity management, with its experience in over 4,000 integrity-related deployments worldwide.
News
June 14, 2016
Liberty Oilfield Services, a privately held pressure pumping company, has completed its acquisition of Sanjel Corporation's U.S. assets.
News
June 14, 2016
In the Bakken Formation, an operator wanted to improve efficiency during plug-and-perf completions in a high-temperature (275-degF [135-degC]) unconventional well. A dissolvable plug-and-perf system eliminated conventional millout of plugs and the risks associated with conventional milling operations.
Article
June 2016
The Williston basin has seen a full evolution of completion technology throughout its development, with increasing levels of science being applied to determine the best methodology.
Article
June 2016
Deferrals replace unchecked production
Article
June 2016
Expanding the boundaries of ball-drop technology has led to a simple, yet effective design for reducing completion time and improving operational efficiency.
News
June 09, 2016
Peak Well Systems, a specialist in the design and development of advanced downhole tools for well intervention, has reached another important milestone in the development program for its SIMULTRA range of retrievable bridge plugs.
News
June 08, 2016
API Upstream and Industry Operations Director Erik Milito touted the environmental benefits of hydraulic fracturing in a conference call with reporters today.
News
June 08, 2016
Oil closed above $50/bbl in New York for the first time in 10 months and U.S. production has fallen to the lowest in almost two years. Time to drill, baby, drill?
News
June 06, 2016
Materia Inc., a leader in the development and manufacture of catalysts and advanced polymers, is pioneering the next generation of oil and gas solutions with Proxima thermoset resins.
News
June 02, 2016
The shale revolution helped drive oil prices down to levels not seen in over a decade.
News
June 01, 2016
Packers Plus Energy Services recently installed and stimulated an open hole completion system in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, the company said Wednesday.
News
May 25, 2016
Packers Plus Energy Services has announced the successful completion of a "multi-cluster" stimulation in a cemented system, which simulated plug-and-perf operations in the Meramec formation within the STACK play of Oklahoma.
News
May 24, 2016
InterAct, an Acteon company, has been awarded a contract with a major West Coast operator to provide well integrity management and engineering services for three gas fields in California.
News
May 23, 2016
AccessESP, a leading provider of rigless electric submersible pump (ESP) conveyance solutions for the worldwide oil industry, has successfully retrieved and replaced an existing ESP for a major operator on the Alaskan North Slope using a standard slickline unit.
News
May 20, 2016
Operators have accumulated about 3,900 drilled but uncompleted horizontal oil wells (DUCs) across the U.S. shale, with more than 90% of these located within the major liquids plays, according to the latest analysis by Rystad Energy.
News
May 17, 2016
Packers Plus Energy Services has announced the opening of its Global Technology and Training Center in Louisville, Colorado.
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May 17, 2016
Nine Energy Service successfully completed 124 perforated stages in an 18,544 ft lateral (27,034 ft TMD) in Guernsey County, Ohio, for Eclipse Resources, a premier independent E&P company in the Appalachian basin.
