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DRILLBITS -March 2015

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IADC Co-Hosts Workshop Focused on Workforce Attraction and Development in Brazil

On 4-5 March, IADC and Firjan co-hosted a workshop on workforce development in Brazil.

The Firjan system is a network of private nonprofit organizations, who promote business competitiveness, education and quality of life of the industrial workers and society in the state of Rio de Janeiro.

Those who attended the workshop heard presentations on IADC projects, including the Workforce Attraction and Development Initiative, the Knowledge, Skills and Abilities competencies and the Competency Assurance program, before breaking into smaller workgroups to discuss how to develop competency programs and the best strategies to bring people into the industry.

“The strong attendance and interest in these important topics is indicative of a commitment to competence and development in the region. There was a lot of energy from those in attendance and we anticipate that this effort will continue well into the future,” said Mark Denkowski, IADC Executive Vice President, Operational Integrity. “We look forward to continuing to work with our colleagues in Brazil and we encourage them to keep going on this path that they have set.”

 


IADC Labels New US Federal Rules on Hydraulic Fracturing as Burdensome and Unnecessary

In a press release issued on 26 March, IADC’s President and CEO Stephen Colville stated that the final rule regulating hydraulic fracturing on federal and Indian lands will only result in increased costs and regulatory redundancy, ultimately impacting America’s long term energy security.

The final rule, issued by the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in 26 March Federal Register, includes requirements that replicate controls already in place. These existing requirements themselves enshrine the good oilfield standards that the industry has routinely practiced for many years and continuously improves. BLM estimates that the rule will impose additional annual costs of $32 million. However, other estimates place these expenses much higher.

“IADC strongly disagrees with the necessity of the BLM rule, which creates more bureaucracy at the cost of positive economic impact for states with hydraulic fracturing operations,” said Mr. Colville. “While we are focused on continuous improvement in all facets of drilling and production operations, we believe that the implementation of duplicative rules with regard to hydraulic fracturing are burdensome and pointless and therefore without merit.”

Numerous respected scientific studies have confirmed there is no harmful environmental impact from today’s hydraulic fracturing operations. These operations have been central to America becoming virtually energy self-sufficient, driving energy costs to one-half of those in Europe, and one third of China’s.

Further, the combination of hydraulic fracturing with technologies developed by drilling contractors has been instrumental in employing more than half a million Americans, both directly and indirectly.

“It is noteworthy that hydraulic fracturing has been conducted safely and responsibly in the US for more than 60 years and states have successfully regulated these activities for decades. It appears that BLM has published the final rule without definitive consultation with the states affected by it, and without properly weighing the economic impact against the benefits expected. IADC will never object to regulation that is necessary and beneficial, however, this new rule adds an unnecessary and duplicative layer of regulations. As an added layer of compliance, the rule creates unnecessary costs to an industry that plays a major part in this country’s economy in terms of low energy costs and high employment. It is disheartening that this rule will impact future industry growth.”


API Publishes Specification 16C, Choke and Kill Equipment

API Specification 16C, Choke and Kill Equipment, second edition, was recently published. The publication establishes the minimum requirements for the design and manufacture of several types of new equipment. These include:

  • Articulated choke and kill lines;
  • Choke and kill manifold buffer chamber;
  • Choke and kill manifold assembly;
  • Drilling choke actuators;
  • Drilling choke controls;
  • Drilling chokes;
  • Flexible choke and kill lines;
  • Union connections used in choke and kill assemblies;
  • Rigid choke and kill lines
  • Swivel unions used in choke and kill equipment

To order the new publication, visit the API Publications Store.

 


IADC, Lone Star College, Patterson-UTI Receive 2015 Faraday Award

The Faraday Award, presented by Electric Power and Prequalified Ready Employees for Power International (PReP Int) recognizes and honors employers, programs and partnerships focused on transitioning veterans into careers in the energy industry.

IADC, Lone Star College – Office for Workforce Education and Patterson-UTI will be recognized for a program that screens, prepares, trains and on boards returning veterans for careers in the oil and gas drilling industry. The effort provides meaningful careers to veterans, and since March 2014, it has enjoyed a 92% placement rate for more than 150 participants.

The award will be presented on 21 April during the Electric Power Conference in Chicago.

For more information on the origins of the award, please visit the Electric Power Conference website.

 


IADC Houston Chapter Receives Donation

From left: Bob Warren, IADC; Jeff Kesler, IADC Houston Chapter Chairman; Ben Bloys, Chevron

From left: Bob Warren, IADC; Jeff Kessler, IADC Houston Chapter Chairman; Ben Bloys, Chevron

At the 17 March IADC Houston Chapter meeting, Ben Bloys, Chevron, presents chapter chairman Jeff Kessler, Blake International Rigs, a donation check to the chapter’s scholarship fund in the amount of $10,732 on behalf of the former Drilling Engineers Association (DEA). DEA disbanded in 2014 as a separate organization, transforming to the IADC Drilling Engineers Committee. The  donation represented disbursal of DEA’s remaining funds to scholarships, as required by DEA’s charter


Elman Mikayilov Wins Free Copy of IADC Deepwater Well Control Guidelines

On 10 March, Elman Mikayilov, drilling engineer with BP Angola Wells, was awarded a free copy of the new IADC Deepwater Well Control Guidelines after correctly answering the question: According to an article coauthored by Rana S. Roy, et al, published in the November/December 2007 issue of Drilling Contractor, of the two widely used constant bottomhole circulating methods, which offers more advantage for well control?”.

The question was posed via IADC’s social media networks and through email.

To stay updated on IADC activities and participate in future contests, follow IADC on Facebook and LinkedIn and follow Drilling Contractor magazine on Twitter.

The Deepwater Well Control Guidelines include new content on operational risk management, sometimes called process safety, with additional new and refreshed content on well integrity, well planning, rig operations, equipment, procedures, training and drills, and emergency response. The year-long project was led by Louis Romo, BP, Chairman of the Deepwater Well Control Guidelines Task Force, and Moe Plaisance, Diamond Offshore Drilling (Retired), Executive Advisor, with support from nearly 100 top-level experts.

The Guidelines aim to facilitate safe and efficient deepwater drilling operations. It provides guidance for maintaining primary well control, applying secondary well control methods and responding to an emergency in the event of a blowout. Each chapter is intended to facilitate the rig team’s primary task of maintaining and optimizing control of the well.

Electronic and print copies of the book can be purchased through the IADC Bookstore.

 


IADC Chairman’s Anniversary Award Program Now Accepting Submissions

IADC believes in the importance of continually improving performance for the drilling industry. The Chairman’s Anniversary Award was developed to recognize field-based individuals who have made a direct impact on improved performance for their company, either through a project or personal effort. The Award will be given every five years as part of IADC’s anniversary celebrations.

Award winners will demonstrate how their innovative project directly improved performance in the field in one of the following ways:

  • Eliminating injuries
  • Enhancing process safety
  • Reducing NPT
  • Improving equipment reliability
  • Increasing efficiency

Submissions will be accepted beginning 1 March through 21 May and will be judged based on the above criteria by a selected group of IADC staff and industry veterans. The winner will be contacted in August and the award will be presented by IADC Chairman Ed Jacob during the IADC Annual General Meeting on 5 November in San Antonio.

For more information, please visit www.iadc.org/chairmans-anniversary-award

 


New eChapters of the IADC Drilling Manual Now Available

Three additional stand-alone chapters of the 12th edition of the IADC Drilling Manual have been issued in electronic form and are available for purchase via the IADC Bookstore.

More than 100 technical experts contributed to the first major rewrite of the manual in 22 years.

The new chapters include:

Rotating and Pipehandling Equipment

Covers the full range of equipment, including operations and maintenance. Topics include top drives, hoisting and running in, pipehandling, make up/break out, racking, auto-handling, tubulars, drawworks, elevators, casing running tools, power catwalk, manual and power tongs, instrumentation, maintenance and inspection, and more.

IADC Glossary: acronyms, abbreviations and definitions

the IADC Glossary is an appendix to the IADC Drilling Manual, 12th edition. The 12th edition glossary provides guidance about common and not-so-common acronyms, abbreviations and terms.

* Complimentary as a companion to purchasers of any other eBook chapter of the IADC Drilling Manual, 12th edition.

Well Control Equipment and Procedures

Covers the gamut of well-control equipment and practice, from equipment to maintenance to procedures for land, bottom-supported rigs and subsea operations. Updated with the latest information, this stand-alone chapter covers blowout preventer stack equipment and arrangements, BOP design, BOP testing, inside BOPs, chokes, diverters, control systems and more. The chapter’s section on well control procedures explains calculations and more for well killing. As an added bonus, the chapter includes the latest IADC Killsheets for Driller’s Method, Wait and Weight (surface and subsea) and Bullheading Method. Each killsheet conveniently provided in US, metric and SI units.

There are in addition to the chapters previously released in electronic format. The eBooks are compatible with most eReaders, including DL Reader (mobile devices), BlueFire, Adobe Digitial Editions and more.

Hard copies of the 12th Edition of the Drilling Manual are expected to be released soon.

To purchase any of the available eBooks, please visit the IADC Bookstore.

 


Accreditation Updates

RigPASS

  • CanRig Drilling (Full), USA;

  • Express Energy Services (Full), USA;
  • Capacitacion Asertiva Del Sureste (Conditional), Mexico;
  • Bufete Corporative de Capacitacion (Conditional), Mexico;
  • Safety Concepts International (Full), USA

WellCAP

  • Capacitacion Industrial y Servicios de Veracruz (Intro), Mexico


Safety Alerts

For the latest safety alerts, visit www.iadc.org/safety-alerts

Alert 14-29: Personnel basket failure serious near hit


Rigs Receive ISP Certificates

For certificates received since last LTI (in years):

  • Atlantica: Alpha (4);
  • Energy Drilling Company: Rig 1 (1), Rig 2 (2), Rig 6 (8), Rig 7 (2), Rig 10 (5), Rig 11 (2), Rig 12 (5), Rig 14 (2), Rig 15 (3);
  • Ensco: Ensco 8500 (5), Ensco 8505 (3), Ensco DS-3 (5);
  • Norton Energy Drilling LLC: Rig 1 (2);
  • Oman KCA Deutag: T78 (5);
  • Xtreme Drilling & Coil Services: 2 (5), 3 (3), 4 (4), 5 (7), 6 (2), 7 (3), 8 (7), 10 (1), 11 (6), 12 (4), 14 (2), 15 (6), 16 (6), 17 (3), 18 (3), 19 (1), 20 (2), 21 (2), 22 (2), 23 (2), 24 (2), 25 (2), Unit 112 (2), Unit 116 (2);
For certificates received since last recordable incident (in years):
  • Greatship (India) Limited:  Greatdrill Chaaya (2), Greatdrill Chitra (2);
  • Gulf Drlg Int’l Ltd. (Q.S.C.): Al Jassra (1), Al Khor (1), GDI-2 (1), GDI-3 (1), GDI-4 (2), GDI-6 (1), Les-Hat (1), Zikreet (2);
  • KCA Deutag Drlg GMBH The Netherlands: T-700 (3);
  • Mermaid Drilling Limited: MTR-2 (1);
  • Parker Drilling: 165 (3);
  • Xtreme Drilling & Coiling Services: 2 (1), 5 (5), 8 (1), 11 (1), 12 (1), 14 (1), 16 (6), 18 (1), 24 (2), 25 (2), Unit 112 (1).

New IADC Members

IADC welcomes 45 new members:

  • 741 SOLUTIONS LLC, HOUSTON, TEXAS, USA; 
  • ACADEMY OF SAFETY AND RESCUE TRAINING PTE LTD, SINGAPORE;
  • ASESORIA Y CONSULTORIA EN SEGURIDAD INDUSTRIAL Y MARITIMA S.A. DE C.V., CIUDAD DEL CARMEN, CAMPECHE, MEXICO;
  • ASM LOGISTIC S.A. DE C.V., CIUDAD DEL CARMEN, CAMPECHE, MEXICO;
  • ASSET INTEGRITY SOLUTIONS, MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS, USA;
  • AVALZ PROVEEDORA S.A. DE C.V., VILLAHERMOSA, TABASCO, MEXICO;
  • AXIOM NDT LD (T/A AXIOM OFFSHORE SERVICES), GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, UNITED KINGDOM;
  • BC SERVICE, INC, MIAMI, FLORIDA, USA;
  • CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS UNIVERSITARIOS DEL NORTE DE VERACRUZ A.C., CERRO AZUL, VERACRUZ, MEXICO;
  • CHICKASHA MUD PUMP REPAIR CO., CHICKASHA, OKLAHOMA, USA;
  • CINTAS, HUMBLE, TEXAS, USA;
  • COATS, ROSE, YALE, RYMAN & LEE, P.C., HOUSTON, TEXAS, USA;
  • CORAL ENERGY SERVICES LTD, HAIFA, ISRAEL;
  • DEEPWATER SUBSEA, KATY, TEXAS, USA;
  • D-OCEAN TEASTING & INSPECTION PTE LTD, SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE;
  • DRILL FORCE NEW ZEALAND LTD, PAPAKURA, NEW ZEALAND;
  • DURMAT, INC. (DBA DURAM USA), SPRING, TEXAS, USA;
  • FLETCHER TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE, SCHRIEVER, LOUISIANA, USA;
  • FREIH BIN OWAIDHA AL-QAHTANI SONS CO LTD, AL-KHOBAR, EASTERN PROVINCE, SAUDI ARABIA;
  • GRAVITECH INSPECTION SERVICES, KOCHI, ERNAKULAM, KERALA, INDIA;
  • IVANO-FRANKIVSK NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF OIL AND GAS, IVANO-FRANKIVSK, UKRAINE;
  • KOLT OILFIELD SERVICES PVT LTD, MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA;
  • KUWAIT GREEN ENERGY COMPANY, MINA ABDULLA, KUWAIT;
  • MARITIME SAFETY INSTITUTE, ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT;
  • MEDGATE, TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA;
  • MULTINACIONAL DE SEGURIDAD INDUSTRIAL SA DE CV, MONTERREY, NUEVO LEON, MEXICO;
  • NORSAFE AS, FAERVIK, NORWAY;
  • OIL & GAS INTL TRAINING ACADEMY (A DIVISION OF REDCAR AND CLEVELAND COLLEGE), REDCAR, UNITED KINGDOM;
  • PALMERON DRILLING SOLUTIONS, PARK VIEW, LAGOS STATE, NIGERIA;
  • PERKINS DRILLING TOOLS INC, HOUSTON, TEXAS, USA;
  • PETROLEUM TRAINING SCHOOL, SANTA CRUZ, ARGENTINA;
  • PT HARMON DRILLING SERVICES, JAKARTA, DKI JAKARTA, INDONESIA;
  • PROSERV EGYPT, MAADI, CAIRO, EGYPT;
  • PROSERV WESTHILL FACILITY, ABERDEENSHIRE, SCOTLAND, UNITED KINGDOM;
  • SAFETY CONCEPTS INTERNATIONAL, HOUSTON, TEXAS, USA;
  • SERVICIO Y CONSULTORIA ESPECIALIZADOS DEL CARMEN SA DE CV, CIUDAD DEL CARMEN, CAMPECHE, MEXICO;
  • SHENGLI OILFIELD AOKAILONG PETROLEUM ENGINEERING CO, LTD, DONGYING CITY, SHANDONG PROVINCE, CHINA;
  • STELLAR WELL CONTROL & RISK SERVICES, LLC, HOUSTON, TEXAS, USA;
  • STIRLING GROUP, DUBAI INTERNET CITY, DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;
  • TOTAL MARINE SOLUTIONS, INC, FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA, USA;
  • TURNER COATINGS LLC, SPRING, TEXAS, USA;
  • UNIVERSIDAD DEL NORESTE, TAMPICO, TAMAULIPAS, MEXICO;
  • XINJIANG ZHENGTONG INDUSTRIAL CO, LTD, KARAMAY CITY, XINJIANG, CHINA;
  • YOKE INDUSTRIAL GROUP, TAICHUNG, TAIWAN;
  • ZADOK TECHNOLOGIES INC, HOUSTON, TEXAS, USA.

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Ed Jacob, Chairman • Stephen Colville, President and CEO • Amy Rose, Editor

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