Exploration drilling remains the foundation of every new mine development, but the operating environment is becoming more demanding. Programs are moving deeper, labour shortages persist and safety ...

ABS has announced it has issued the managed pressure drilling notation ABS MPD to Seadrill for the ABS-classed West Capricorn, a 6th generation ultra-deep water semi-submersible operating in the Gulf ...

Athens Group, an independent consulting company that specializes in software-related risk mitigation and problem remediation for drilling and rig control systems, announced a 66% increase in year-over ...

Directional drilling technologies have revolutionised the extraction of subsurface resources by enabling precise control over borehole trajectories and optimising well placement. These techniques ...

Saipem has launched a state-of-the-art Drilling Training Centre featuring a full-scale simulator designed to deliver ...

Pacific Drilling and Athens Group announced a three year partnership to reduce non-productive time (NPT) from the design phase through to operations for all software-dependent control systems for ...

BATON ROUGE – The 2020 spring semester has been a challenging one for LSU Engineering students and faculty. Teaching classes online is hard enough, but the biggest challenge was determining how ...

BP officials insist safety was a top priority on the Macondo drilling project more than 40 miles off the coast of Louisiana, but there were plenty of reasons for the oil giant to want to cut corners ...

Drilling Systems has delivered a bespoke well-control training lab to Western Texas College (WTC). 3t Energy Group’s Drilling Systems has delivered a bespoke well control training lab to Western Texas ...

Drilling costs can be estimated with a combination of established, analytic techniques. This article, concluding a three-part series, presents a general framework to estimate costs with a formalized ...