Drilling & Completions
Technology News
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Drilling clean-up technologies showcased at recent expo
- 27 April -
- MI-Swaco Environmental Solutions' latest cleaning technologies for drilling operations were on display on 24 April at the company's Environmental Solution Expo 2008. Nearly 400 attendees from various operating companies were expected for the showcase event, which was held in the outside parking area of the company's corporate headquarters in Houston.
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New gridding editor makes contour mapping easier
- 09 April -
- While contour maps of oil and gas prospects are ubiquitous in the drilling industry, they are also notoriously difficult to edit and manipulate. A new tool called Grid Editor from Seismic Micro-Technology (SMT) aims to change that, by eliminating tedious single-contour editing and allowing the user to focus on overall structure.
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New Center for Technology Innovation opens in Houston
- 07 April -
- Baker Hughes recently held an open house for its new Center for Technology Innovation (CTI) in Houston. The USD 42-million facility promises to be the launching pad for the next generation of technologies for challenging production environments.
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Completion system offers multizone stimulation in a single trip
- 15 March -
- A completion technology that promises economic and efficiency gains over conventional multiple-trip completion and stimulation is receiving a great deal of attention, onshore and off. In numerous field trials, BJ Services' ComPlete MST (multizone, single-trip) completion system has eliminated several operational steps compared with traditional multizone frac-pack/gravel-pack completions, providing at least a 20 to 40% [...]
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Sakhalin extended-reach well a new world's record
- 10 February -
- ExxonMobil has broken its own world record for extended-reach drilling. The new record at the Sakhalin-1 oil project on Russia's east coast was for an offshore well in the Chayvo field, drilled from shore at a distance of nearly 7 miles (11 km).
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R&D Technical Section marks first year at ATCE
- 08 January -
- In its ongoing endeavor to foster cooperative research within the upstream oil and gas industry, SPE's R&D Technical Section (RDTS) held its annual meeting at the 2007 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) in Anaheim, California. According to Section Chair Chris Buckingham of the Southwest Research Institute, while the section made a great deal [...]
SPE.org now has a Technical Editor to help keep members up to date with technology developments. Ted Moon will be bringing you information on emerging technologies, R&D successes, new field applications, updates from SPE papers about recent innovations, and more.
Industry News
- Primeline, CNOOC Take Steps Toward Dvlpt. of Lishui 36-1
- Questerre, Talisman to Drill 3 More in Quebec
- JKX Issues Update on Worldwide Projects
- Dana Excels in E&P, Plans 17 Wells for Rest of 2008
- Elixir Exceeds Expectations with Pompano Production
- MOG Works Over Gas Well to Maximize Production
- MOG Continues Drilling Offshore Italy at Ombrina Mare 2
- Pryme Spuds Third Raven Well
- Marley-2 Drilling Ahead
- Otto Hits Pay Dirt at Arpaci-2 in Turkey
Technical Interest Groups
SPE offers TIGs on the following topics related to drilling.
- Coiled Tubing Applications
- Completions & Workovers
- Drilling
- Formation Damage Control
- Gas Technology
- Geological Engineering
- Multilateral Technology
- Oilfield Chemistry & Corrosion
- Real Time Optimization
- Stimulation
- Underbalanced Drilling & Completions
Technical Sections
The following Technical Sections may be of interest to professionals in drilling and completions.
- Wellbore Positioning
- Research & Development
