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What is LPG? Liquefied Petroleum Gas
LPG – Liquefied Petroleum Gas – describes flammable hydrocarbon gases including propane, butane and mixtures…
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DRILLING FLUID PROPERTIES & FUNCTIONS
IntroductionThe rotary or air method of drilling is distinguished by two factors; (1) the bit…
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Drilling Rig Systems
Introduction Although drilling rigs differ greatly in outward appearance and method of deployment, all rotary…
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Well planning
Well planning is perhaps the most demanding aspect of drilling engineering. It requires the integration…
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Oil&Gas Well Drilling
The term drilling indicates the whole complex of operations necessary to construct wells of circular…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…