Baker Hughes announced the introduction of its Hammerhead system鈥攖he industry鈥檚 first fully integrated wellhead-to-reservoir ultra deepwater completion and production system. Hammerhead. From Baker Hughes鈥
FMC Technologies awarded DNV GL to perform independent third party verification of a high pressure, high temperature (HPHT) subsea completion, production and work-over system. Subsea illustration鈥
Halliburton Energy Services鈥 Harvey J. Fitzpatrick, Jr. shows how wellbore stimulation fluids can increase production. Fig. 1鈥擡xample of acid-etching properties of SandStim service. The service鈥
Drilling in deeper waters calls for more advanced technology. Mark R. Luyster provides an overview of recent fluid advances for the completion phase of deepwater projects. The industry has evolved in the last decade to further drilling鈥
During the past decade, our industry has applied new technologies and adapted old ones that enabled us to meet the world鈥檚 energy needs more efficiently, productively and safely. Bond. From Hess. As an engineer鈥
Jerry Lee and Greg App examine how lasers could be used for not just drilling, but for completions and well intervention projects, too. Laser drilled sandstone core sample. Images from ZerLux Hungary Ltd鈥
UK-based distributed acoustic sensing technology firm OptaSense has partnered with Weatherford International to form a strategic alliance to deliver integrated optical sensing solutions designed to optimize well planning, construction and production across the asset lifecycle鈥
Well drilling and management specialists Acona UK have completed a two-well campaign for Perenco UK in the Southern North Sea. The seven-month campaign, using the Transocean GSF Monarch jackup, drilled a subsea well on the Leman field鈥
Reservoir engineers are getting to grips with automatic flow control devices to limit water cut and gas breakthrough 鈥 just as they did with their passive forbearers, explain Benn A Voll, Ismarullizam Mohd Ismail, and Iko Oguche. Fig鈥
Raptor Oil Ltd, a pre-revenue start-up company is to invest £1.5 million on a new research and development (R&D) project to help boost performance in the oil and gas sector. Raptor is using proven proprietary signal processing technology鈥
BPZ Energy spudded a new well in the Albacora development well, offshore Peru. Map of Block Z-1. From BPZ. Well A-22D was spudded on 10 January due to positive results from Albacora well A-27D鈥
Tullow Oil signed a contract in 2014 with ExproSoft for the continued use of WellMaster 鈥 the global well equipment reliability database. By tracking the failures of all their active wells, the operator enables increased production and reduced鈥
The capability to benchmark the reliability of safety-critical well barrier components against a global component test database will enable oil and gas operators to optimize asset performance, Ged Lunt says. Optimizing asset performance鈥
It is possible to verify that the integrity of a well is robust by analyzing and comparing the reliability of its existing components with those in a reliability database. Engineers can compare new technology against that used in existing components鈥
GlobalData鈥檚 Adrian Lara sheds light on the kinds of deepwater projects expected to advance while the price of oil continues to fall. Engineers from Jumbo Maritime deliver 25 MOF caissons for the鈥
