Manual pressure management in a closed-loop mud circulating system enhances safety and efficiency of drilling and completion operations. This is the second of a four-part series of articles on the ...

Drilling operations cause changes in wellbore temperatures that can significantly impact effective fracture gradients. For example, circulation on bottom usually produces bottomhole temperatures that ...

It was an early adopter of super-spec rigs (AC drive, minimum 1,500 horsepower drawworks, minimum of 750,000 pounds hookload rating, 7,500 psi mud circulating system, and multiple-well pad capability) ...

Norway’s IKM Cleandrill has been awarded a contract for riserless mud circulating system services by Total E&P ABSHERON BV on behalf of JOCAP, Joined Operating Company for Absheron Project, said the ...