A new API recommended practice (RP) intends to provide a guide for managing annular casing pressure in offshore wells. An August workshop in Houston reviewed the draft proposal and solicited input ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Leading provider of energy services, Expro (NYSE: XPRO), has successfully deployed its Octopoda TM annulus intervention system to restore annulus pressure integrity and ...

This story profiles one of the Offshore Technology Conference's Spotlight on New Technology Award winners. Cement has been used for decades in the oil and gas industry to secure the area between the ...

Use of nitrogen-foamed spacers is a proven mitigation technique for wells with potential problems with annular pressure buildup (APB). In late 1999, BP PLC experienced a well failure in the Marlin ...

Progress on the relief well at the Deepwater Horizon well has now reached the point that BP have started the procedures for the top static kill of the well. There was a little delay in the ...

With Labor Day weekend, and the recovery of the blowout preventer from the Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico, the remaining parts of the operation are going to be increasingly directed at ...

Purpose: Cementing places engineered cement slurry in the casing–formation annulus (and inside casing for plugs) to achieve durable zonal isolation, structural support, and long-term well integrity.

Cementing operations in eccentric annuli form a critical component of well construction, ensuring zonal isolation and long‐term well integrity. The process involves the displacement of drilling fluids ...