Mud engineering designs, builds, operates, and continually optimizes the drilling fluid system to deliver wellbore stability, cuttings transport, pressure control, and equipment protection—safely and ...

Real-time streaming well data monitors drilling performance and aids drilling decisions using web-based drilling models to calculate and predict drilling parameters. These models improve rate of ...

Continued innovation in modeling and algorithm development has led to new process control for the Cyberbase/SDI drilling command center. Collaboration between the International Research Institute of ...

Like it or not, the world is moving toward automation. The drilling industry is no exception. The last two decades have seen numerous advances in mechanization and automation of traditionally ...

An oil-drilling procedure called cementing is coming under scrutiny as a possible cause of the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico that has led to one of the biggest oil ...

LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) - Texas Tech University’s Department of Petroleum Engineering is preparing to drill exploratory wells at its Oilfield Technology Center off East Loop 289 and 4th Street to add a ...

Drilling in its broadest sense is any process that involves making a circular hole in a solid material or hard surface using a boring tool. With thousands of applications across industries, drilling ...

On-site fluids specialist (often called “mud engineer”) responsible for the design, testing, maintenance, and assurance of drilling and completion fluid systems to meet well objectives while ...

KENNER, La. — Federal investigators on Wednesday revealed limitations in the complex web of inspections by various agencies that came in contact with the Deepwater Horizon before it exploded and sank ...

Singapore-based offshore drilling rig builder Keppel Offshore & Marine has delivered a newbuild jack-up drilling rig to Norway's Borr Drilling. The rig, named Hild, was built to Keppel's KFELS Super B ...