Drillingrigcontractor Stories

Fluctuations in rotary speed and damaging lateral vibrations can result in stick slip, whirl, and overall downhole tool failure. H&P's FlexTorque® technology actively re...

H&P is known for our best-in-class technology and industry-leading rig designs, developed and maintained by the specialized, purpose-driven expertise of our workforce in...

The drilling industry faces challenges when it comes to implementing physics-based decisions in real-time, resulting in missed opportunities to improve drilling performa...

You plan your well to be safe, but when deviations from plan inevitably occur an updated analysis must be performed to confirm that the new execution plan is still safe...

These analyses can constitute guidelines about stabilizer design to minimize vibrations. The novelty of this work is to introduce the geometry details of the stabilizers...

Challenge A major operator in the Midland Basin had been using the H&P Bit Guidance System with AutoSlide® Technology as their solution to successfully build and scale t...

H&P's Advanced Well Engineering service combines the vast experience of their engineering team and DrillScan® digital solutions, an industry-leading technology, to optim...

Drilling practices alone are not enough to accurately deliver a high quality wellbore, as success is equally dependent on the accuracy of the wellbore survey. H&P's Surv...

An advanced Archimedes method with all fluid circulation effect has been developed. By tackling the problem of circulating fluid in the drill string using two different...

During well planning, specifying the separation that must be maintained from offset wellbores is critical to ensuring safe operations. Recent efforts on API RP 78, an up...

Namely, the effect of the drillstring-wellbore contact distribution is showed to have a substantial impact on the SOT performance. Consequently, it was proved that optim...

Efficient drilling through heterogenous geology requires careful matching of drilling parameters to the rock being drilled. Failure to do so can lead to increased bit da...

Today, drillers are responsible for changing and executing roadmap parameters at the right time or they face a number of risks - one being damage to BHA tools. Digital R...

The use of time-domain modeling to jointly characterize the behavior of downhole axial and surface oscillation tools introduced in this work allows a better understandin...

Leveraging a unique combination of computing algorithms and capable, autonomous controls, our geosteering solutions recognize and avoid risks, both before and while dril...

Drillstring vibrations habitually cause downhole BHA failures. While the drillstring will always be subject to these vibrations, H&P has developed a physics-based module...

For over 100 years, Helmerich & Payne has been a leader in rig performance and more recently, in rig technology and innovation. H&P is the largest onshore driller in the...

Performance contracts are increasingly common in the drilling industry, especially in recent years. This incentivized contract structure, established as a partnership be...

Delivering better outcomes with rig floor automation

Through sequenced collaboration between H&P drilling technologies, H&P can help reduce human variability and provide game changing drilling performance solutions with an...