The July/August issue of Oilfield Technology is now available, featuring expert insight into some of the upstream sector's biggest technical challenges. This edition covers everything from deepwater project protection and subsea lifecycle engineering, to well integrity, idle well revival, drilling optimisation and decommissioning, alongside a global round-up of the latest upstream developments.
This month's front cover is brought to you by The WellBoss Company.
Contents
A practical path to security of supply Andreas Fliss, Norway Country Manager for James Fisher, explores how electrification, digitalisation and asset intelligence in Norway’s upstream sector is supporting both energy security and net zero targets simultaneously.
Safeguarding deepwater projects
Kartik Ramachandran, Upstream Segment Manager at ExxonMobil Proxxima™ systems, shares how advanced technologies can help safeguard deepwater oil and gas projects.
From first oil to late life
James Ferguson, Hunting Subsea Technologies, describes a lifecycle approach to subsea engineering that connects standardised hardware, intervention capability and enhanced reservoir recovery.
Raising the bar for well barriers
Scott Gordon, Director of RBP product line, The WellBoss Company, describes a century of evolution for well control barriers and the growing role of retrievable bridge plugs in modern well integrity strategies.
Reviving idle wells
Oilfield Technology asks Guillaume Borrel, CEO, GOWell, about why well resurrection is gaining momentum, and about the integrity challenges of long-idle assets.
Rigless P&A in practice
Zafar Khan, Wellbore Integrity Solutions (WIS), USA, details a rigless multi-well abandonment offshore Spain.
A portfolio approach to decommissioning
Sandy Hutchison, Managing Director, TAQA UK, offers lessons learned from executing the UK’s largest portfolio decommissioning programme.
Intelligent drilling fluids monitoring
Analysing automated drilling fluid performance maintenance based on online monitoring technology linked with solids control equipment. By Yongkun Nie, Hushan Zhang, Changqing Mou, Chao Ma, Zhitong Liu, Chenchen Lai, Wentao Suo, and Chunliang Huo (CNPC Baoji Oilfield Machinery Co., Ltd,) and Xuming Zhang, and Baiquan He, (Vertechs Group.