Drillingrigcontractor Stories

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Staging drilling set points after tagging bottom is often inconsistent and can cause drilling dysfunction. H&P has transformed this common multi-step task into an automa...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

Delivering better outcomes with rig floor automation

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

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...

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...

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...

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

By using the continuous surveys taken by an MWD tool, to account for the actual tortuosity of the well, the potential fatigue becomes even more significant. Read out the...

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...