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 ...

ConocoPhillips, Tesco Corp., and Schlumberger Ltd. successfully tested rotary-steerable casing drilling in South Texas, combining directional drilling technology with casing drilling. "Each of these ...

Internal documents from BP show that there were serious problems and safety concerns with the Deepwater Horizon rig far earlier than those the company described to Congress last week. The problems ...

The tricky process of sealing an offshore oil well with cement — suspected as a major contributor to the Gulf of Mexico disaster — has failed dozens of times in the past, according to an Associated ...

Noble Energy Inc. suspended drilling the deeper part of its Leviathan-1 giant Miocene gas discovery well in the deepwater Mediterranean off Israel and is moving the rig to drill a development well at ...

Erle P. Halliburton in 1921 patented an advanced technology for cementing wells that brought greater production and environmental safety to America’s oilfields. With his “Method and Means for ...

Workers aboard the rigs hope to tap into the pipe gushing oil and plug it permanently with cement. ABOARD THE DEVELOPMENT DRILLER II – The men who spend weeks at a time aboard these deepwater rigs are ...