Ten Free Smart Device Apps for Oilfield Workers. There are dozens of mobile phone and smart device apps available for oilfield workers.
Here, Rigzone takes a look at 10 that cost you nothing to download. Today's oilfield workers are busier than ever thanks to a shortage of experienced know-how in the industry. Indeed, as this article from September warns, Generation X oil workers (those aged in their 40s and 50s) are in danger of "burning out" due to their juggling family commitments and an ever-increasing workload. Meanwhile, although Gen Y workers are rapidly becoming the go-to candidates to fill vacant positions in the oil and gas industry, they face a steep learning curve.
Ten Free Smart Device Apps for Oilfield Workers. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool: Well Completion. How Does Cementing Work? Part of the process of preparing a well for further drilling, production or abandonment, cementing a well is the procedure of developing and pumping cement into place in a wellbore.
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. Le gaz de schiste : géologie, exploitation, avantages et inconvénients. Pierre Thomas Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon / ENS Lyon.
Horizontal Oil Shale Drilling Animations. Petroleum: a primer for Kansas. Dr.
Lee C. Gerhard, State Geologist and Director of the Kansas Geological Survey, suggested this project. This book is based on a similar publication of the North Dakota Geological Survey by Erling Brostuen, published when Dr. Gerhard was State Geologist of North Dakota. The North Dakota Geological Survey kindly gave permission to excerpt portions of that book. Petroleum: a primer for Kansas. Petroleum: a primer for Kansas, Page 12 of 15Prev Page--Mineral rights and leasing || Next Page--Production.
Llau13's channel. E-T Energy. Infographic: The What, Where and How of Shale Extraction. The Keystone Delay Won't Stop These Canadian Oil Sands Stocks. "While the Keystone Pipeline continues to twist in the wind, investors shouldn't ignore the Canadian energy sector, especially the Athabasca tar sands.
" I'm not a knee-jerk hater of the Obama administration. But the president's decision to reject the Keystone pipeline was one of his worst. Aside from creating jobs, the pipeline would have decisively swung U.S. energy supplies more toward domestic sources and those of our friendly neighbor Canada. Granted, the pipeline wouldn't create energy independence but it would mean importing less oil from the Middle East. It is the kind of switch that could help save the U.S. large amounts of blood and treasure in the future.
Because in practice, our dependence on Middle Eastern oil forces us to incur huge foreign costs—after all, we just finished paying $800 billion (B) for the Iraq war. Horizontal Shale Oil Drilling. Gasfrac Energy: The Prize Of Waterless Fracturing. Earlier this year I published a number of articles on Gasfrac Energy Services (OTCPK:GSFVF) and their waterless LPG fracturing technology.
In my earlier articles, I have attempted to introduce the company, its technology and demonstrate the superior production and reserves results obtained by oil and gas operators upon utilizing the company's novel fracturing process. Sidetrack Coring. Chimera Energy. Chimera Energy Corp Sets 90-day Schedule for Non-Hydraulic Extraction Deployment in Chicontepic Basin Houston, TX—September 11, 2012 -Chimera Energy Corp (OTCBB: CHMR) announced today that Company management has formulated a 90-day schedule for the first deployment of Non-Hydraulic Shale Oil Extraction in the Chicontepic Basin of Mexico.
This basin is considered Mexico's largest certified hydrocarbon reserve, totaling more than 139 billion barrels of oil (22.1×109 m3). Officials with PEMEX delivered drilling logs to CHMR on Saturday in Poza Rica, Mexico for Company use in dialing in specifications for the use of Non-Hydraulic Extraction there. Chimera Energy Corp has shipped equipment to Mexico while oil & gas engineering firm Weis S.A. has been making arrangements for other system components to be assembled in Mexico City. Non-Hydraulic Extraction has recently emerged to be asserted as a cheaper and more effective extraction method that does not affect groundwater at all.
How Does Artificial Lift Work? Artificial lift is a process used on oil wells to increase pressure within the reservoir and encourage oil to the surface.
When the natural drive energy of the reservoir is not strong enough to push the oil to the surface, artificial lift is employed to recover more production. While some wells contain enough pressure for oil to rise to the surface without stimulation, most don't, requiring artificial lift. In fact, 96% of the oil wells in the US require artificial lift from the very beginning. Even those wells that initially posses natural flow to the surface, that pressure depletes over time, and artificial lift is then required. Therefore, artificial lift is generally performed on all wells at some time during their production life. Although there are several methods to achieve artificial lift, the two main categories of artificial lift include pumping systems and gas lifts. Methods of Artificial Lift Above the surface, the beam pumping system rocks back and forth.