A compression test conducted on a 7 5/8-in., 39-lb/ft P-110 casing joint buckled the pipe body rather than the connection. The test, conducted by Grant Prideco for Shell Offshore Inc.'s Brutus oil and ...

Once a well has been drilled, if it is to become a production well, the well must undergo completion. While drilling a well cuts through the rock formations and allows drilling engineers to reach the ...

Conductor casing Conductor casing is the first string set below the structural casing (i.e., drive pipe or marine conductor run to protect loose near-surface formations and to enable circulation of ...

New analysis shows pipelines using shorted casings are more susceptible to corrosion than pipelines using nonshorted casings. The preferential location of anomalies on carrier pipe inside casings is 2 ...