Educated Predictions
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- Published: 2013-Oct-01
- Author: Lynda Harrison
New drilling tool is designed to predict problems before they occur
Western Canada, from Manitoba to the high Arctic, has many different formations, and each depositional environment comes with its own rock strengths and composition.
Frac With Care
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- Published: 2013-Sep-11
- Author: Carter Haydu
Risk assessment system helps companies find least harmful additives
Developing hydraulic fracturing fluid additives posing the least environmental risks—and therefore attracting less scrutiny regarding the practice's impacts on water quality—is a challenge that the Fracturing Fluid Additive Risk Assessment and Selection Tool helps companies address.
Numbers Game
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- Published: 2013-Sep-01
- Author: Gordon Cope
A revised well ID system will help the U.S. O&G industry—Canada is next
For almost half a century, the American Petroleum Institute’s API well number (based on the API D12A Bulletin) has been a workhorse of the U.S. oil and gas industry. Operators use it to label, store and retrieve well information, including the geographic location, class of well (exploration, etc.), and well components such as sidetracks, logs, cores and completions. Regulatory bodies use it to track drilling permits, collect royalties from production and optimize field conservation.
Improving Drilling Efficiency
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- Published: 2013-Jun-01
- Author: Jim Bentein
Wealth of well data made useful to producers, explorers
It isn’t every day that an executive with a software company focused on the oil and gas drilling sector calls a main offering from his company “a concept, not a product,” but then that pretty well describes the drilling information databases built by Calgary-based XI Technologies Inc.
Better Safe Than Sorry
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- Published: 2013-May-01
- Author: James Mahony
Laser scanners and specialized software allow for faster, more effective testing of pipelines
Even before recent high-profile crude oil pipeline ruptures in the United States, North America’s pipeline carriers had good reason to adopt the latest in pipeline-testing technologies.
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