Case Study

EC-Drill® helps BP to successfully drill on the notorious Shah Deniz field

EC-Drill® helps BP to successfully drill on the notorious Shah Deniz field

CHALLENGING CONDITIONS Drilling top-hole sections on the Caspian’s Shah Deniz field comes with significant challenges: there are a number of pressure- regime-related risks and difficulties associated with the region’s high pressure, unconsolidated sands. The soils in the Caspian are highly reactive and deformable, meaning inhibited mud has to be used. THE SCENARIO BP needed to drill a 26in top-hole section from a fixed platform to 1,191 m

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