WASHINGTON – WASHINGTON (AP) — The CEO of the company that owned the oil drilling rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico says the accident was caused by a failure of its cementing, casing or perhaps ...

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 ...

Summary: Ideal conditions for geothermal power can create some of the biggest cementing challenges for wells. Where traditional cementing methods fail, tailored cement formulations and processes can ...

In completion of oil and gas wells, cement isolates the wellbore, prevents casing failure, and keeps wellbore fluids from contaminating freshwater aquifers. The basic factors engineers and operators ...

Erle P. Halliburton in 1921 patented an advanced technology for cementing wells that brought greater production and environmental safety to America’s oilfields. With his “Method and Means for ...

The other day, I received an email from a representative of an international oil company, which is wholly owned by the government and reports to the Department of Energy. The email contained this ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Expro (NYSE: XPRO), a leading provider of energy services, achieved a world record by deploying the heaviest casing string to date, using its advanced Blackhawk® Gen III ...

Natural gas may be one of the cleaner sources of energy, but the petroleum industry's challenge in the well-construction process is to drill and complete wells to produce it safely and economically.

Flaws in a cement encasement intended to seal BP’s well were most likely the root of last month’s deadly explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, according to interviews, government officials, ...

Cement is a mixture of several different types of rocks, crushed and heated to very high temperatures, and then ground to a superfine dust to use in the production of concrete. Typically, cement ...