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At H&P we dedicate the month of April to actively promoting vehicle safety in all forms. Our goal is to increase awareness of key topics like distracted driving, fatigue...

With directional drilling in today's market, well placement is of ever-increasing importance in the process of successfully drilling a well. Well placement by Measuremen...

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...

As spring approaches in the United States, many of us drilling in Oklahoma and Texas welcome the nicer temperatures but must also remain weather-aware with an expectatio...

REMOVE UNCERTAINTY WITH DATA AS YOU DRILL Drilling practices alone are not enough to accurately deliver a high quality wellbore, as success is equally dependent on the a...

WHAT COULD 2-4 ADDITIONAL WELLS PER YEAR MEAN TO YOUR BOTTOM LINE? Contact us for more information on how our FlexRig® Fleet can help you achieve better drilling outcome...

We know that energy exposures provide a significant amount of threat to a worker on a drilling rig. We also know it is important to have strong processes in place to hel...

Watch the full video to know more about this technology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai9boL8hLAA A CONTROL SYSTEM THAT KNOWS WHAT'S IMPORTANT, WHEN IT MATTERS MOST A...

When we talk about Actively C.A.R.E.™ (controlling and removing exposures), that can often be interpreted as only focusing on exposures that can harm people on the job...

The Coaching Guide originated in 2018 as part of a campaign to equip our Drilling Superintendents and HSE staff with additional tools and skills for coaching employees i...

Friday night lights... tailgating Saturdays... and of course, armchair quarterbacking Sundays. It's the most wonderful time of the year! Now, imagine if your favorite fo...

PROACTIVE STICK SLIP MITIGATION Fluctuations in rotary speed and damaging lateral vibrations can result in stick slip, whirl, and overall downhole tool failure. H&P's Fl...

BY AUTOMATING SPEED, QUALITY, AND SAFETY H&P HELPS REDUCE TIME TO TARGET AND HUMAN VARIABILITY You plan your well to be safe, but when deviations from plan inevitably oc...

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

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

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...

After two years of testing the recovery control system internally, there were no undetected stalls, no false detections, and no unplanned trips due to motor stall, displ...

The oil and gas industry is witnessing a significant transformation with the advent of drilling rig automation. Traditional drilling operations are being upgraded with a...

This paper describes some of the challenges to understanding and ultimately automating drilling processes using models. Examples of models used to solve industry problem...

Thunderstorms are electronically monitored on the platform for lightning strikes, because offshore drilling rig masts and crane booms are normally the tallest structure...