Drilling Engineering Today Designing, monitoring, analyzing performance and coordinating onshore and offshore drilling teams. These are just some of the tasks required of your drilling engineers to ensure that a well is executed safely. To bridge the gap between the rig and the office; Geoscientists, the drilling teams, and service contractors, must all work together.…
Building up a picture of the subsurface is a massive undertaking, one which takes thousands of hours and a diverse team. Everyone from drilling engineers, geologists and petrophysicists are involved. Unfortunately, on many projects, insights from planning in the office are not transferred to the well site. It is a long-standing issue and without closing…
My first 100 days at Petrolink The Petrolink People series has charted the course of some of the longer-serving members of our team. For this interview we thought we would mix it up and hear from Pavlina Houdkova, Marketing Coordinator on her first 100 days with the company. “I believe that bringing a fresh pair of eyes can bring value,…
Stats: 12 years at Petrolink As we reach the end of the year it is an ideal time to reflect on the challenges we have seen and look ahead to the opportunities that lie ahead in 2021. Petrolink People aims to get inside the heads of some of the brightest minds at the company. In…
September 1, 2020 – Petrolink announced today that they have completed the move to its new offices at 11451 Katy Freeway, Suite 320, Houston, Texas 77079. The move signifies Petrolink’s alignment with the “new” teleworking normal and its willingness to embrace changes that are a positive support to its employees and customers. Petrolink’s new space…
Data comes in all shapes and sizes, and one of today’s main challenges is having it ready for immediate consumption. With us now amid the 4th Industry Revolution (4IR) we are all looking into using the latest and greatest techniques, but are we getting ahead of ourselves? Let us take a moment to think about…
The Covid-19 pandemic crisis has evolved rapidly and globally, with some areas seeing their infection rates decrease, while other regions approach the peak of the pandemic. Petrolink continues to focus on the welfare and safety of its employees, customers and business partners. Petrolink’s global real-time support teams continue to function as normal even though our…
The Petrolink People Series is your chance to get inside the heads of some of the brightest minds in data management. On this occasion, we are interviewing Andrew Chacko – Product Manager at Petrolink. Join us for an exciting and informative discussion on various topics, including data acquisition, building the energy platforms of the future,…
Throughout the process of drilling a well, issues can arise that can slow down, or even halt operations. Monitoring the various workflow activities at each pod is key to maintaining operations. However, as personnel are only physically able to monitor a few wells with different workflows at the same time, monitoring each pod is extremely…
Achieved excellent gas quality range for carrying out gas analysis by replacing gas extraction equipment The Challenges During a trial with a National Oil Company it was observed that the gas data (chromatography and total gas) received from the surface logging contractor was of questionable quality for performing gas quality analysis which in turn was…