Drillingrigcontractor Stories

Safety performance in the drilling industry is typically measured based on Occupational Safety and Health Administration ("OSHA") recordable injuries and the a...

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...

Staging drilling setpoints after tagging bottom is often inconsistent and can cause drilling dysfunction. H&P transformed this common multi-step task into an automated a...

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...

Fatigue prediction is usually based on the cumulative fatigue damage model from Hansford and Lubinski as defined in API RP7G. This model, based on S-N curves, a failure...

SKILLED ENGINEERS ENHANCE THE WELL DELIVERY PROCESS, WHILE MEETING SAFETY AND REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS Helmerich & Payne's Advanced Well Engineering team offers a compreh...

This study demonstrates that the procedure reduces the horizontal wellbore position uncertainty by 46% for the study area and more generally from 15 to 50 percent when c...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

The drilling and completion of oil and gas wells is a collaborative business, involving employees from many contractors working together. Well construction generates man...

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...

We hear the term quite often within the drilling industry. But what does it really mean? Is it even possible to achieve in an industry that operates daily with elevated...

In the current drilling climate, efficiency is king: do more with less. This motivation drives disruptive technological innovations in automation of the drilling process...

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...

H&P aims to treat every customer relationship as a true partnership, which is why our Directional Team approached the operator with a bold plan to pause AutoSlide techno...

Lateral spacing in unconventional plays can have a significant impact in the economics of field development (Bharali et al., 2014; Lalehrokh & Bouma, 2014). This spacing...