We develop and implement a ring-based parallel 3-D oil-phase homogeneous isotropic reservoir simulator and study its performance in terms of speedup as a function of problem size. The ring-based approach is shown to result in significant improvement in speedup as the problem size increases. This improvement stems from the reduction in communication costs inherent in a ring-based approach. The s...

The rheological regulation of the “three high” (high temperature, high density and high salinity) water-based drilling fluid is a worldwide problem due to the combined influence of temperature, solid content and salinity. This paper investigates the factors and regulation methods about rheological property of “three high” water based drilling fluid, and the effects of clay, salinity and weighti...

During 2003-2013, fatality rates for oil and gas extraction workers decreased for all causes of death except those associated with fall events, which increased 2% annually during 2003-2013 (1). To better understand risk factors for these events, CDC examined fatal fall events in the oil and gas extraction industry during 2005-2014 using data from case investigations conducted by the Occupationa...

Drilling fluid is the most important lifeline of the drilling operation, that main task is facilitate the cuttings removal of the drilling. There are varieties of drilling fluids such as sodium bentonite based-drilling fluid is called “mud” and drilling foam or surfactant based-drilling fluid is called “soap”. The present work aims are study on the modified drilling mud properties by using the ...

The availability of real-time drilling data communication is highly critical to the exploration and production business of any petroleum company. Such critical mission requires oil companies to use the cutting edge technology because doing that can increase the profitability of the company by millions of dollars. Moreover, even short delay in data transfer could results in severe damages, injur...

Efficient and cost-effective drilling of directional wells necessitates the implementation best practices advanced techniques to optimize operations. Failure adequately consider risks can result in inefficient operations non-productive time (NPT). Although may be expensive, they offer promising technical solutions for mitigating risks. This paper aims demonstrate effectiveness improving when co...