Significant casing-job planning and modeling, with a dynamic-surge model, enabled BP PLC successfully to run and cement the 135/8-in. intermediate casing, in the subsea development well Marlin SS-1, ...

BHP Billiton Petroleum eliminated an intermediate casing string in a Permian basin pilot by switching to an oil-based mud (OBM) from a water-based mud. BHP Billiton Petroleum eliminated an ...

CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwired - Sep 17, 2015) - Condor Petroleum Inc. ("Condor" or the "Company") (TSX:CPI) is pleased to provide a drilling update on the KN-501 Primary Basin well located on the ...

Elixir Energy Ltd (ASX:EXR, OTC:ELXPF) has drilled the Lorelle-3 appraisal well to the planned intermediate section depth of 2,320 metres measured depth below rotary table (MDRT) in ATP2056 in ...

Once a well has been drilled, if it is to become a production well, the well must undergo completion. While drilling a well cuts through the rock formations and allows drilling engineers to reach the ...

Conductor casing Conductor casing is the first string set below the structural casing (i.e., drive pipe or marine conductor run to protect loose near-surface formations and to enable circulation of ...

Henry Ford was on to something 100 years ago when he ramped up his operations with the assembly line. It was Dec. 1, 1913, and workers, who had been trained in one of 84 separate steps to build the ...