Drilling vibrations continue to have drastic negative effects on operational success and project costs.  In all instances, and as a requirement to facilitate development of appropriate solutions, sources of vibrations must always be identified.  Vibrations mode identification, while important, has less significance in comparison to vibrations source identification.  Source identification improves efficiency of remediation strategies.    …

  The SPE Deepwater Drilling and Completions Conference (DDC) brings together experts from around the world to explain how operators and service companies develop and utilize new technologies to meet current challenges in deepwater basins. Attendees will experience a comprehensive technical program that includes technical papers on field case studies and recent discoveries from around the …

REGISTER NOW:  http://www.spe.org/training/courses/HFG.php   This course covers the fundamental principles concerning how hydraulic fracturing treatments can be used to stimulate oil and gas wells. It includes discussions on how to select wells for stimulation, what controls fracture propagation, fracture width, etc., how to develop data sets, and how to calculate fracture dimensions. The course also …