The cost drilling oil well now costs as much as $120 million, according to the chairman, Green Energy International Limited, Prof. Anthony Adegbulugbe. He dropped the hint at the official project sign ...
As technology advances and options increase, the selection process becomes more difficult and time-consuming, drilling is not an exception. Directional drilling is the norm of the industry. Most wells ...
Drilling rate of penetration (ROP) is an important indicator for achieving cost reduction in drilling operations and formulating plans. Accurately predicting the ROP is the first step to improving the ...
Engineering downtime analysis of all exploration wells drilled off Ireland produced recommendations to improve drilling performance off Ireland. Drilling time-depth curves for different sectors can be ...
Efficient drilling in shale reservoirs requires detailed 3-dimensional (3D) horizontal well trajectories. An orthogonal-arc trajectory (OAT) method assumes a single constant curvature in the curved ...