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Very Interesting Technology – Versabar Claw Lift VB 10000 (Heavy Lift Catamaran)
We read about very interesting heavy lift catamaran named VB 10000. The VB 10,000 consists of two 240′ tall lift gantries joined to twin 300′ by 72′ barges to form a catamaran. The gantries are...
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The deepest depth on Norwegian shelf by Mærsk Gallant
Congratulate to Mærsk Drilling for making the record yesterday. With a total depth of 5,941 metres(19,491 fr), Mærsk Gallant has beaten the record for deepest well ever drilled on the Norwegian...
View ArticleFailure Lifting – Mobile Crane Operations
Working on the rig both offshore and onshore always involves lifting operation using rig cranes or mobiles crane. Therefore, hazards associated with lifting operation must be carefully taken into...
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Baker Hughes To Cut Pay In Effort To Avoid More Job Cuts
Houston-based Baker Hughes Inc. plans to begin a temporary furlough program for some employees. “In response to challenging industry conditions, Baker Hughes has implemented a temporary 5 percent pay...
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Shape of the Earth and Geodetic Datums for Directional Drilling
Directional drilling relies on mapping system to accurately identify location of the wells. Therefore, it is very important to learn the basics of mapping and other relevant information. This topic is...
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Latitude, Longitude and Drilling Map Projection
Directional drilling maps are flat, but the Earth is an oblate spheroid. This leads to a challenge to accurately represent the wellbore position on the Earth on a piece of paper. In this section, you...
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Animal You Caught While Working in the Oilfield
We have a post in Facebook Fanpage (https://www.facebook.com/drillingformulas) about animal that you cauguth while you were working in the field. There are many people participating in this discussion...
View ArticleShell has started production from the world’s deepest offshore oil and gas...
Shell has started production from the Stones development in the Gulf of Mexico, the world’s deepest offshore oil and gas project. When fully ramped up at the end of 2017, the development is expected to...
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Universal Transverse Mercator Application in Directional Drilling
Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) is one of the commonly used map projection methods in directional drilling. In UTM, the world is divided up into 60 zones between 84° North and 80° South and...
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Apache Revealed Massive Oil Shale Discovery in Texas
This is the big oil discovery in Texas, USA. Shale oil/gas technology made shale production profitable. Have you ever worked on any shale oil/gas project? Please feel free to share your experience in...
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Scale Factor in UTM Mapping System and its Application in Directional Drilling
Scale factor represents distortion from a mapping system since the Earth is mapped into a flat surface, but the actual surface is in curvature. Figure 1 illustrates a scale factor with a reference...
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Baker Hughes cuts employee pay 5 percent by using furloughs
This might be good ideas from Baker Hughes to keep oil and gas people in the business during downturn. Read the full details below. Houston-based Baker Hughes is cutting employee pay for many U.S....
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Magnetic Declination and Grid Convergent and Their Applications in...
This article will describe about Magnetic Declination and Grid Convergent and how to use them for directional drilling purposes. Magnetic Declination In the azimuth reference, three North references...
View ArticleWell in an Unbalanced Condition (Video)
The well is in an underbalanced condition while pulling out of hole. You can see in the video below that the fluid is flowing up from the drill pipe side. It is such very important to understand the...
View ArticleAutoTrak Rotary Steerable System from Baker
AutoTrak Rotary Steerable System from Baker Hughes is one of the most popular RSS tool. We have several feedback from people in our Facebook page and this is what they say. Gaspar Giroto We used...
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Texas Earthquakes Caused By Fracking, Say Scientists !!!
We’ve never done fracking jobs so we don’t know if this is true. It is quite difficult to understand the relationship about Earthquake and Fracking. Please let us about your comment down at the comment...
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OPEC agrees to limit oil output at 32.5 million barrels per day = Oil jumps 6%
ALGIERS (Reuters) – OPEC agreed on Wednesday to cut its oil output for the first time since 2008, with the group’s leader Saudi Arabia softening its stance on arch-rival Iran amid mounting pressure...
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Determine Thickness of Concrete for Concrete Coated Pipeline
Coating the subsea pipeline with concrete is a technique to add downward force for stability of pipelines situated on the seabed. Figure 1 shows that the concrete coated subsea pipe line is being...
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Oil Well Cement Additives
Most oil well cement slurries will be added to some additives in order to modify cement properties so cement operation can be properly performed. In this article, it will cover some of important cement...
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25 World’s Largest Public Oil & Gas Companies in 2016 – Interesting Information
The World’s Largest Public Oil & Gas Companies in 2016 by Forbes. This is so interesting to know that Russian companies are ranked as the first and the second biggest public oil and gas company in...
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