Paul Pastusek will share the Stabilizer Selection Guidelines that ExxonMobil has developed to improve their drilling operations as a result of stuck pipe and  near miss events.    The drilling objectives are to: Drill a round, ledge free hole, without patterns, with minimum vibration, minimum unplanned dog leg severity, that reaches all directional and geologic …

The presentation considers original end of field life design constraints on crude oil separators and in a logical progression illustrates how hidden capacity in a separator can be identified and used to upgrade the separator, both by maximizing the use of available volume in the separator and also by the use of upgraded process internals. …