Recent enhancements in relief well technology enable operators to drill into prolific reservoirs while maintaining a single relief well contingency plan. Blowout contingency planning is required by ...

Pre-emergency planning is a requirement for every organization. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have several regulations that ...

Bit walk is the natural tendency of the drill bit to drift in a lateral direction during drilling and occurs in every operation. Operators planning and designing wellbore trajectories, therefore, must ...