Young Professionals & Continuing Education: Newpark Drilling Fluids Simulated Performance Tour

 

Event Description:

Join us for an interactive tour of Newpark Technolgy Center, a home to the industry’s one-of-a-kind Downhole Simulation Cell (DSC). 

Newpark Drilling Fluids provides drilling fluid products and technical services globally. Drilling projects involving complex subsurface conditions, such as horizontal, directional, or deepwater drilling require constant monitoring and critical engineering support.

The Newpark Technology Center is home to the industry’s one-of-a-kind Downhole Simulation Cell (DSC). The DSC is a device that returns preserved core samples to in situ temperatures and pressures, and circulates a potential drilling fluid while drilling with a microbit.

The DSC allows its users to observe drilling fluid system performance in simulated real-world conditions. This unique technology used in the development of proprietary products and systems allow for application-specific drilling fluids designed to optimize drilling performance through enhanced wellbore stability in specific geologies. By allowing researchers to observe, measure, and evaluate formations under actual downhole conditions, test results from the DSC provide guidance for fluid optimization.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Meeting Agenda

11:00 -11:30 am: Check-in/Networking

11:30 - 12:30 pm: Presentation/Discussion

12:30 - 2:00 pm: Drilling Fluids Simulated Performance Tour

Registration & Walk-ins 

All attendees are encouraged to register and pay online for this event. Walk-in's will be available for $30 per person.

PLEASE NOTE:  $5 has automatically been added to the registration price as a donation to the SPE-GCS Scholarship Fund.  If you would like to opt out of donating this amount to the SPE-GCS Scholarship Fund, please enter OptOut in the Discount Code field and click Check Discount to apply the code. The code is case sensitive.

Parking

A complimentary visistors parking is in the front of the building. 

Location: Newpark Drilling Fluids
21920 Merchants Way
Katy , TX 77449

Date: March 23, 2018, 11 a.m. - March 23, 2018, 2 p.m.