Drilling Rig Systems
Introduction Although drilling rigs differ greatly in outward appearance and method of deployment, all rotary rigs have the same basic drilling equipment. The main component parts of a rotary rig…
Well planning
Well planning is perhaps the most demanding aspect of drilling engineering. It requires the integration of engineering principles, corporate or personal philosophies, and experience factors. Although well planning methods and…
Oil&Gas Well Drilling
The term drilling indicates the whole complex of operations necessary to construct wells of circular section applying excavation techniques. To drill a well it is necessary to carry out simultaneously…
Shell uses real-time data for early detection of underreamer failure in deepwater Gulf of Mexico
It’s no secret to the offshore drilling community that expandable underreamers are tremendously important tools in deepwater drilling, but underreamer failure is also a major contributor to increased costs and…
Exxon Mobil’s Halsey: Oil patch’s digital transformation will be comparable to horizontal drilling’s tech revolution
The oil field’s digital transformation is bringing sweeping change to the upstream industry, from using data analysis to help companies find the oil, to the possibility of operating equipment autonomously. These technological…
WannaCry attack brings cybersecurity to front, center for upstream oil industry
The upstream oil and gas industry should take notice of the WannaCry ransomwareattack that hit companies across the globe last week, holding valuable proprietary data hostage unless the organizations agreed to…
Statoil outlines digitalization strategy toward 2020, spearheads E&P effort
As more and more E&P companies, including supermajors and large independents, continue to praise the possibilities created by Big Data, Statoil is emerging as one of the leaders in the space. The Norwegian…
Oil and gas industry lags new trend of chief digital officers
Companies from around the world are starting to establish new executive-level positions, as in “chief digital officers (CDOs),” to navigate the open sea of the digital transformation, according to a recent…
Deloitte’s hacking report underscores cybersecurity threat to oil and gas companies
Cyber-attacks are developing into formidable threats within the oil and gas industry, and according to a recent study by Deloitte, the industry may not be regarding these threats with the respect that…
“Digital twin” defined for the oil field
The “digital twin” is one of many common colloquialisms used by data wizards during technical presentations on the virtues of the E&P industry’s digital transformation. Such terms also include “the…
