A new API recommended practice (RP) intends to provide a guide for managing annular casing pressure in offshore wells. An August workshop in Houston reviewed the draft proposal and solicited input ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Leading provider of energy services, Expro (NYSE: XPRO), has successfully deployed its Octopoda TM annulus intervention system to restore annulus pressure integrity and ...

In completion of oil and gas wells, cement isolates the wellbore, prevents casing failure, and keeps wellbore fluids from contaminating freshwater aquifers. The basic factors engineers and operators ...

This story profiles one of the Offshore Technology Conference's Spotlight on New Technology Award winners. Cement has been used for decades in the oil and gas industry to secure the area between the ...

Progress on the relief well at the Deepwater Horizon well has now reached the point that BP have started the procedures for the top static kill of the well. There was a little delay in the ...

Annular pressure management is a critical safety and operational concern in deepwater gas wells. This field focuses on controlling the pressure buildup within the annular space—the gap between the ...

Purpose: Cementing places engineered cement slurry in the casing–formation annulus (and inside casing for plugs) to achieve durable zonal isolation, structural support, and long-term well integrity.

Halliburton’s cementing manager for the Gulf of Mexico Richard Vargo registered his disagreement with the flow through the shoe track and up the casing. From the “few pieces of data we have”, he said ...

For all the attention over undersea oil plumes and seafood toxicity and depressed Gulf residents, it’s easy to forget that this well technically still hasn’t been killed. And now it looks like the ...