Try as so many private and government organizations might, switching everywhere on Earth over to clean, renewable energy — including some strange sources being explored — is still a long way away. Thus, oil remains one of the hottest commodities on the ...

I.1 Purpose: Mud engineering during drilling designs, builds, monitors, and continuously optimizes the drilling fluid to enable safe, efficient hole-making, wellbore stability, pressure control, cuttings transport, bit/BHA cooling, and formation protection.

President Trump posted two things on his social media platform this morning: One calling for “everyone” to “keep oil prices down” and another calling on the Department of Energy to “drill, baby, drill.” With the caveat that that’s not how any ...

When you think about offshore oil rigs, what comes to mind is what you may have seen in movies — skeletal towers in the middle of a vast sea, some flares cutting through the darkness, and a crew that goes months without a sight of land. Such images do ...

Mud logging is the real-time surface monitoring and interpretation of cuttings, drilling parameters, and mud gas to support safe, efficient drilling and formation evaluation during well construction. Define mud logging scope: hole sections, deliverables ...