Mud pulse telemetry is a pivotal technology in modern drilling operations, enabling the transmission of downhole measurements to the surface via modulated pressure pulses in the circulating drilling ...

Halliburton Company (NYSE: HAL) today introduced PulseStar™, a service that provides operators with consistent, high-speed streaming of downhole data. The service transfers high-resolution, real-time ...

The company is still trying to determine what its ultimate bandwidth capacity will be, but Chell estimates it will be thousands of times faster. Based on initial tests, Cold Bore’s technology could ...

Halliburton Company (HAL), a global leader in energy services, introduced PulseStar, a service that offers operators a steady, high-speed flow of downhole data. This service transmits real-time ...

A closed-loop drilling system, to be effective, requires reliable two-way communication between the downhole module and surface. 1 2 Today's drilling industry uses mud-pressure pulse telemetry as one ...

Shell UK Exploration & Production, an operating unit of Royal Dutch/Shell Group, used an electromagnetic measurement-while-drilling (EM-MWD) tool to transmit downhole-measured data during drilling ...

IntelliServ Inc. of Provo, Utah (a Grant Prideco(TM)/Novatek venture) announced the successful completion of a fifth field trial of the IntelliServ® network, a high-speed, real-time drill string ...

Join Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi for a review of the best stories to grace the front page of Hackaday this week. Things kick off with the news about Raspberry Pi going public, and ...

We take easy communications for granted these days. It’s no bother to turn on a lightbulb remotely via a radio link or sense the water level in your petunias, but how does a drilling rig sense data ...