How Training Simulators are Used for Offshore Drilling

Offshore drilling represents the most complicated and dangerous operations which exist within the energy sector. Crews need to control advanced equipment while working under difficult maritime conditions and they must…

Well Completion in Unconventional Reservoirs

Unconventional reservoirs need advanced stimulation and completion methods because their low permeability makes it difficult to reach profitable oil and gas extraction. The process of well completion in unconventional reservoirs serves…

Effective Risk Management in Oil and Gas Production

The oil and gas industry executes its operations as the world most challenging and dangerous industrial process. Drilling wells, operating offshore platforms, transporting hydrocarbons and maintaining processing facilities create multiple…

How to Integrate Well Logging with Reservoir Simulation

An accurate understanding of subsurface reservoirs is imperative for optimizing recovery and reducing operational risks in oil and gas exploration and production. Core components include well logging and reservoir simulation…

Conventional vs. Automated Well Control Systems

Well control systems are aimed at ensuring safe drilling operations and preventing any uncontrolled flow of formation fluids in the wellbore during drill stem testing. Traditionally, well control has depended heavily…

How to Prevent and Mitigate Well Control Failures

The oil and gas industry considers well control to be an essential element for both drilling activities and operational activities at well sites. The process requires operators to maintain pressure equilibrium…