While deepwater drilling presents a myriad of challenges, perhaps one of the most economically and technically taxing relates to the risk of lost circulation. This phenomenon, in which whole drilling ...

Several Russian oil field case histories have demonstrated that expandable-profile tubulars or pipes have proven to be an effective way to control formation caving and sloughing problems in ...

State regulators of the oil and gas industry will be debating next month over how gas drilling companies should deal with large and potentially toxic pit liners. The liners are giant sheets of ...

RIFLE, Colo. – Garfield County and the state’s gas and oil overseers are deep in talks about what to do with huge rubbery sheets covered with sludge, some of it apparently toxic, that are a byproduct ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Enventure Global Technology, Inc. (Enventure), the leading provider of solid expandable tubulars to the energy industry, is excited to announce that it has been awarded a ...

A new method which simplifies drilling operations in unstable formations and thereby saves time and costs has been tested by Statoil on the Brage field. A new method which simplifies drilling ...

Now that the state has decided to stick to rules requiring disposal of “pit liners” used to contain holding ponds next to gas drilling pads, Garfield County is trying to figure out what it should do ...

Baker Hughes has introduced the TORXS system, the only expandable liner hanger system that is installed and released prior to the cement job, which eliminates the risk of the running tools becoming ...

ABB Vetco Gray has developed a unique approach to the MCI joining issue for its composite drilling riser design. Originally developed for the aerospace industry by Northrop Grumman and licensed to ABB ...