BHP Billiton Petroleum eliminated an intermediate casing string in a Permian basin pilot by switching to an oil-based mud (OBM) from a water-based mud. BHP Billiton Petroleum eliminated an ...

Significant casing-job planning and modeling, with a dynamic-surge model, enabled BP PLC successfully to run and cement the 135/8-in. intermediate casing, in the subsea development well Marlin SS-1, ...

Elixir Energy Ltd (ASX:EXR, OTC:ELXPF) has drilled the Lorelle-3 appraisal well to the planned intermediate section depth of 2,320 metres measured depth below rotary table (MDRT) in ATP2056 in ...

Rodinia Oil is preparing to run the second intermediate casing string prior to drilling ahead into prospective formations at Mulyawara 1, in the Officer Basin of South Australia. Rodinia Oil is ...

Once a well has been drilled, if it is to become a production well, the well must undergo completion. While drilling a well cuts through the rock formations and allows drilling engineers to reach the ...

Conductor casing Conductor casing is the first string set below the structural casing (i.e., drive pipe or marine conductor run to protect loose near-surface formations and to enable circulation of ...