Halliburton Energy Services’ Harvey J. Fitzpatrick, Jr. shows how wellbore stimulation fluids can increase production. Fig. 1—Example of acid-etching properties of SandStim service. The service…
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…
Claire Zhao and Dharmik Vadel, of Clarus Subsea Integrity, discuss condition monitoring as a proactive approach to minimizing downtime. Control system failure is one of the top contributors toward unplanned shutdowns in offshore subsea production systems…
The Subsea Co. launched a blowout preventer (BOP) fluid conditioning & monitoring system. This system is primarily designed to improve fluid quality by reducing microbial activity with exposure to ultraviolet light, removing suspended particles…
Subsea 7 is to provide fabrication, subsea installation and diving services on Woodside Energy's Persephone project offshore Australia. The Persephone Project consists of two wells tied into a subsea production manifold with production…
International oilfield services company, Expro, is to provide integrated well testing and fluid sampling services for Statoil Petroleum on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). Starting on 1 January 2015, the initial four-year contract is worth US$200 million…
Weatherford International plc signed a definitive agreement with an affiliate of the Lubrizol Corp. for the sale of the Weatherford’s engineered chemistry and integrity drilling fluids business. The businesses will be sold for US$750 million in cash…
For all the technological advances that have been made in drilling and completing wells offshore, wellbore integrity remains the single, most important aspect of well construction. Without it, there is no guarantee of safety, productivity…
Norway's Cubility has appointed Jose Limia as the company’s regional manager for North America. Limia’s role will be to grow sales of the MudCube technology across the North American market, with specific emphasis on offshore drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico…
In October, Newpark Drilling Fluids named Phil Vollands president of North America. Vollands is focused on growing the business and positioning Newpark Drilling Fluids as the leader in water-based fluid technology. Vollands has plenty of industry experience…
FPSO, deepwater riser and subsea architecture. Photos from Flowsure. Ensuring successful fluid flow has always been at the heart of the oil and gas industry. However, it is only in the last…
Drill floor operations on the Rowan Norway. Image from Xcite Energy. Work on the Bentley heavy oil field in the North Sea showed the significance of experimental data when unconventional fluids are expected to be transported through pipelines…
Swire Oilfield Services, a global supplier of cargo carrying solutions, modular systems, offshore aviation services and fluid management has announced plans to further invest in Southeast Asia with the development of three new operational…
EnergyMakers' Russ Capper interviews SBM Offshore's Group Technology Director Michael Wyllie about the company's very high pressure (VHP) fluid swivel technology. The swivel earned SBM Offshore a Spotlight award at the 2014 Offshore Technology Conference in Houston…
Schlumberger has launched a new technology, the GeoSphere reservoir mapping-while-drilling service, which has been tested in more than 140 wells worldwide. The new technology gives operators an opportunity to optimize well landing operations…
