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At Balance Schedule of Industry Events
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At Balance Industry Events Calendar At Balance regularly attends industry conferences where they exhibit their latest technology and achievements and jointly present with their customers new applications and benefits of automated pressure drilling services and pressure control technology. |
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AADE - November 28, Houston, Texas At Balance will present "Closed Loop Pressure Drilling with MPD, Wired Pipe, and Real-Time PWD" In their plans to explore a shallow gas prospect in the Andaman Sea a Far East operator had to contend with a number of potentially high risk scenarios that made kick detection speed and pressure control accuracy essential to avoid losing returns. By combining automated pressure control, pressure while drilling, and drill string telemetry the operator created the first closed loop pressure control system. Results will be presented that show the system's ability to maintain a near constant BHP within the specified safety limits. |
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IADC Drilling Gulf of Mexico Conference and Exhibition - December 5-6, Galveston, TX At Balance will present a summary of a deepwater operators experience drilling a depleted field with statically undxerbalanced mud using the Dynamic Annular Pressure Control system. A deepwater Gulf of Mexico operator drilling depleted fields used the Dynamic Annular Pressure Control system in 5 wells. Most recently, the opertaor recieved the first government approval to drill narrow pressure windows with a mud system statically underbalanced relative to pore pressure. The operator successfully drilled wells technically unfeasibility with conventional techniques and in the process improved his drilling efficiency and safetythrough reduced ECD, increased borehole stability, and the elimination of lost circulation. |
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SPE / IADC Managed Pressure Drilling and Underbalanced Operations Conference and Exhibition - January 28-29, Abu Dhabi Visit the At Balance exhibit in booth xxxx. At Balance will present the paper entitled "Managed Pressure Drilling With Significantly Reduced Mud Weight Improves Economics In Depleted Offshore Malaysia Field Through Reduced Drill Time And Cost" In the search for a solution to reduce conventional drilling costs in a South China Sea field an operator chose the automated Dynamic Annular Pressure Control system to manage ECD within a narrow window with mud weight significantly reduced below pore pressure. |
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IADC / SPE Drilling Conference and Exhibition - March 4-6, Orlando, FL Visit the At Balance exhibit in booth xxxx. At Balance will present the paper entitled "Successful Implementation of Closed-loop Multiservice Control System for Automated Pressure Management in a Shallow Gas Well Offshore Myanmar" This application represents an industry-first solution to control pressure while drilling shallow gas in a relatively deep water area. The operator integrated three complementary technologies - automated pressure control, pressure while drilling (PWD), and high speed, drill string telemetry - to provide real-time control of bottomhole pressure in the event of a gas kick. |
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IADC International Deepwater Drilling Conference and Exhibition - March 11-12, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil At Balance will present the paper entitled "Staged Implementation of Automated Managed Pressure Drilling in Redevelopment Program for Depleted Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Fields – Applications and Results" In their search for a drilling solution to redevelop technically unfeasible deepwater depleted fields in the Gulf of Mexico an operator chose to implement in stages automated dynamic annular pressure control to manage ECD within narrow pressure windows with statically underbalanced mud. They proved they could redefine drilling feasibility and in the process improve drilling efficiency, safety, and reliability through reduced ECD, increased borehole stability, and the elimination of lost circulation. |
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AADE Fluids Technical Conference and Exhibition - April 8-9, Houston, TX At Balance will present the paper entitled "Managed Pressure Drilling Enables Operator to Reduce Mud Weight Below Pore Pressure And Improve Hydraulics And Hole Cleaning In Far East Depleted Offshore Field" While facing the need for high mud weight to control stability and high solids to control coal seam losses a Far East operator now faces the conflicting need due to depletion to reduce annular loading to avoid fracture losses. Conventional efforts have proved expensive because they imposed slow drill rates, reduced flow rates, and mnonproductive rig time to back ream before every connection. And, though workable, they proved ineffective at preventing high ECD and lost circulation. By comparison drilling with the DAPC system allowed the operator to lower the mud weight by over 1 ppg, reduce the static mud weight below pore pressure, eliminate lost circulation solids, increase the flow rate by 27%, reduce the ECD, avoid losses, and eliminate the need to control drill. |
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