measurement while drilling

Weatherford International plc and Nabors Industries Ltd. announced today they have signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to form an alliance focused on delivering enhanced drilling solutions to the oil and gas land market in the lower 48 states of the United States. The MOU states that Weatherford will …

TeleScope ICE MWD service and PowerDrive ICE RSS improve well placement and drilling performance in extreme downhole environments Schlumberger announced today the launch of TeleScope ICE* ultrahigh-temperature measurements-while-drilling service and PowerDrive ICE* ultrahigh-temperature rotary steerable system (RSS). These new technologies enable standard drilling operations in reservoirs with extreme temperatures, expanding …

Horizontal drilling increased by 80% in both KMAD and East Siberia between 2007-2012. The contribution to incremental drilling was roughly the same in both regions. As a result, horizontal drilling is rising at a steady pace in Russia due to both the development of new fields in greenfield oil producing …

  How does a MWD system improving drilling efficiencies and formation understanding? Baker Hughes: First of all, let’s go back to industry adopted classification of telemetry systems – MWD (measuring while drilling) and LWD (logging while drilling) systems: MWD systems provide directional survey data (well path), bottom hole temperature, pressure, …

DigiScope service transmits high-quality data for real-time decision-making in land, extended-reach and deepwater wells Schlumberger today introduced the DigiScope* slimhole measurement-while-drilling (MWD) service. The robust signal of the DigiScope slimhole MWD technology transmits high-quality data to surface for real-time reservoir description and geosteering in land, extended-reach and deepwater wells. “The …