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Directional Drilling by Rotary Drilling Assembly
Rotary drilling assemblies can typically control a directional of a well by having proper stabilizer placement. With this kind of drilling assembly, only inclination can be controlled and a well cannot...
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Directional Control by Rotary Steerable
Nowadays, many wells required complex well trajectory plans in order to reach reservoir sections and some of complicated well paths (Figure 1) cannot be drilled with either rotary drilling assemblies...
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An Introduction to the Oil Industry for Kids – Free Download
It is quite difficult to find a book that explain about oil and gas industry to our children. There are many times that you are asked about oilfield by your kids and you could not find the good...
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Transocean to sell all jack-up fleet to Norwegian offshore drilling...
In our opinion, it is very interesting decision made by Transcoean to sell all jack-up fleets to Norwegian offshore drilling contractor, Borr Drilling. With current oil market situation, Transocan has...
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Deepwater Sea Life
When you work in deepwater environment (3000 ft + below sea level), you may think what kinds of creatures live in that condition. Roman Fedorstov has shared some amazing photos of animal living at...
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Petroleum Engineering Development Timeline from 1848-1959 (1st Part)
Petroleum engineering has been developed since the beginning of the 19th Century. The following images demonstrates petroleum technology milestone from 1848 – 1959. This is the first part of this...
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Drilling an oil well from surface drilling to completion – video training
This is one of excellent training video demonstrating the drilling process from start at surface casing to completing of the well in less than 7 minutes. This would be a good tool to teach people about...
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Directional Drilling Calculation Example for J-Profile Well
This article demonstrates how to design the well trajectory in J-shape from the surface location to the required target depth (TD). Information Given The surface location coordinate of Well-A is...
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Basic Knowledge about Multilateral Well and Completion
A multilateral well is a well with two or more laterals (horizontal, vertical, or deviated) drilled from a main mother well. This allows one well to produce from several reservoirs. Multilateral wells...
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Is the oil and gas industry not picking back up forever?
The present downturn has made large portions of us question whether the oil industry is dying. The quantity of oil and gas jobs lost amid this downturn is assessed to be between 400,000 – 500,000...
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Spectacular photos of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010
These are amazing photos of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. On 22 April, two days after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig, an oil leak was discovered when an oil slick began to spread...
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American Oilfield History Photos
This is good to see the American oilfield in the old day. Drill crew The surveyor East Texas Oil Fields Damaged Oil Derrick Oil Derrick in River Basin After a Fire Good Team Reserve pits Galveston Oil...
View ArticleHeavy Lifting ‘Mariner A’ Platform Topside Installation – Please Watch The...
Norwegian energy company Statoil has completed the installation of the 38,000-tonne topside of its Mariner A production, drilling and quarters (PDQ) platform in the UK sector of the North Sea. The...
View ArticleCatastrophic incident while inspecting Top Drive on the rig
This is purely for learning purposes. You can see what happen in the footage below. Three man were inspecting the top drive system on the rig floor. All the sudden the drilling link was accidentally...
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Top 10 Countries With Largest Oil Reserves 2017
Over the past ten years, the price of oil has certainly been volatile. This has led to concern at all levels, from the businesspeople selling oil, to the governments and policy makers in charge of...
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The Cheapest Ever for Ultra Deep Water Drillship in 2017
In April 2013 Transocean’s Deepwater Pathfinder drillship demanded the highest dayrate of any other rig contracted at that time. Eni contracted the drillship at an astronomical dayrate of $681,000 a...
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Top 10 World’s Catastrophic Accidents in Oil and Gas Industry
Much offshore gas and oil exploration takes place many miles beneath the ocean. As well as involving some seriously complex equipment, oil platforms can also be dangerous places, with numerous...
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What are Central Processing Platforms (CPP)?
Offshore platforms are used to explore, extract, and process oil and gas retrieved from the seabed. One vital part of these structures is the central processing platform (CPP), where the well head...
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Two-Year Contract for ‘Deepwater Invictus’, Transocean Ultra-Deepwater Drillship
Transocean Ltd. (NYSE:RIG) announced Tuesday that its ultra-deepwater drillship Deepwater Invictus has been awarded a two-year contract with options by a subsidiary of BHP Billiton. Transocean said the...
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Review Well Control Method Presentation by Wild Well Control
Wild Well Control is one of the best well control specialist companies in the world. The company not only provide well control and engineering services to the company’s customers, it also provides free...
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