Summary: Ideal conditions for geothermal power can create some of the biggest cementing challenges for wells. Where traditional cementing methods fail, tailored cement formulations and processes can ...

- On location for Burlington Resources in central Wyoming (Madden Deep Unit), Unit Drilling Co.'s Rig 201 recently set a producing depth record for the Wyoming and Rocky Mountain area at 24,938 ft.

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 ...

A tension cut and pull subsea wellhead retrieval system has reduced the time required to abandon subsea wells, according to the service provider Baker Oil Tools. For instance, James A. Sonnier, Baker ...

The east Africa-focused oil company, Aminex, says an intermediate casing string has been set on its Ntorya-1 well onshore in Tanzania. The well was spudded on December 22nd 2011 and had been drilled ...