Previously, only American companies manufactured the plugs used for solving numerous deepwell problems like lost-circulation, sidetracking or directional drilling, according to RIPI. "The technology ...

Used for a number of different reasons, cementing protects and seals the wellbore. Most commonly, cementing is used to permanently shut off water penetration into the well. Part of the completion ...

One year after a deadly oil-rig explosion set off the worst offshore spill in U.S. history, the environmental minefield of abandoned wells in the Gulf of Mexico is worse than first thought, with no ...

While the chain of failures on Deepwater Horizon is under investigation, rig owner Transocean has singled out cement work as one likely fundamental cause of the blowout. Even before Transocean pointed ...

Matador Operating Corp. combated lost-circulation problems in Monument field, Hobbs, NM, by combining tubing release procedures with a specialized cement-plug setting technique. Key to the new ...

After removing two cores from this Porites lobata coral colony near Wolf Island in the Galápagos, the University of Arizona-led team of researchers plugged the drill holes. The cement plugs help the ...

The primary goals of wellbore plugging and abandonment are protection of usable water sources, isolation of hydrocarbon-bearing or water injection intervals, and prevention of leakage to the surface ...

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