Next Generation

Extracts from Straits Times 4th Dec2012 About 90 workers were injured when a jackup rig at Singapore Shipyard tilted to one side o...

RIG BOOK

The main functions of the offshore rotary drilling rig are as follows: - Penetrating operations. The drill bit breaks down rock at the bott...

Floaters in deep water normally use dynamic positioning system to keep the position above the well, and make use of a guideline-less drillin...

Once an oil/gas well is being drilled and commercially viable quantities of oil/gas are present for extraction, the well must be 'com...

The drilling fluid called mud only looks like mud. Actually, it is a complex mixture of water or oil, clays, and chemicals. It's composi...

DIVERTER PROCEDURE WHILE DRILLING ON A FIXED RIG Where shallow casing strings or conductor pipe are set, fracture gradients will be low. ...