Heavy weight drill pipe (HWDP)
Grant Prideco offers three types of heavy weight drill pipe: Standard, Tri-Spiral™, and Spiral-Wate™. Each of these heavy weight drill pipe designs is available in different material grades for standard…
Introduction to Petroleum Products and Test Methods
CRUDE OIL ANALYSIS Crude petroleum oil is a mixture of hydrocarbons. The hydrocarbon gases, methane, ethane, propane, and butane, are present in crude oil in its dissolved state. Methane has…
What is Directional Drilling?
Most wells drilled for water, oil, natural gas, information or other subsurface objectives are vertical wells - drilled straight down into the earth. However, drilling at an angle other than…
Fluid Saturations
Oil and/or gas are never alone in “saturating” the available pore space. Water is always present. Certain rocks are “oil-wet,” implying that oil molecules cling to the rock surface. More…
Bharat Petroleum to merge Bina oil refinery with itself
Privatisation-bound Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL NSE 0.95 %) on Friday said its board has approved the merger of the unit that operates the Bina oil refinery in Madhya Pradesh with…
USES OF LIQUID NITROGEN & ITS WORKING PRINCIPLE
Liquid nitrogen is a colorless, odorless, non-flammable, non-corrosive and extremely cold element that finds a lot of applications including research and development. Liquid Nitrogen Liquefaction : Liquid Nitrogen Plant (LNP)…
Fractional distillation of crude oil
Fractional distillation separates a mixture into a number of different parts, called fractions. A tall fractionating column is fitted above the mixture, with several condensers coming off at different heights. The…
Drilling for Oil and Gas
Drilling for oil is a costly process, especially offshore. The object of a well is to prove the presence of, or produce, oil or gas. Sometimes wells are also drilled…
Formation of Source Rocks
All marine organic material is formed near the surface of the ocean, in the photic zone, through photosynthesis. For the most part this is algae. Some phytoplankton are broken down…
The Role of Petroleum Production Engineering
Petroleum production involves two distinct but intimately connected general systems: the reservoir, which is a porous medium with unique storage and flow characteristics; and the artificial structures, which include the…
