If you’ve planned or executed a well in today’s increasingly complex drilling environments, you know success isn’t defined only by reaching total depth. It’s about everything leading up to it—anticipating variables, engineering precision into every phase,...
In drilling operations, it’s often not the big, dramatic failures that cause the most trouble—it’s the steady buildup of small mechanical and hydraulic issues. A little more torque than expected. Drag creeping past design limits. Fluids that don’t clean as well as...