Mud pulse telemetry is a pivotal technology in modern drilling operations, enabling the transmission of downhole measurements to the surface via modulated pressure pulses in the circulating drilling ...

The company is still trying to determine what its ultimate bandwidth capacity will be, but Chell estimates it will be thousands of times faster. Based on initial tests, Cold Bore’s technology could ...

The drilling industry employs mud-pulse telemetry worldwide to transmit drilling and formation evaluation data from the bottomhole. Current models consider the drilling mud to be a single phase ...

A closed-loop drilling system, to be effective, requires reliable two-way communication between the downhole module and surface. 1 2 Today's drilling industry uses mud-pressure pulse telemetry as one ...

We take easy communications for granted these days. It’s no bother to turn on a lightbulb remotely via a radio link or sense the water level in your petunias, but how does a drilling rig sense data ...

Join Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi for a review of the best stories to grace the front page of Hackaday this week. Things kick off with the news about Raspberry Pi going public, and ...

Halliburton Company (NYSE: HAL) today introduced PulseStar™, a service that provides operators with consistent, high-speed streaming of downhole data. The service transfers high-resolution, real-time ...

LWD acquires formation evaluation and wellbore data in real time while the bit is cutting rock. Sensors housed in drill collars measure gamma ray, resistivity, density, neutron porosity, sonic, NMR, ...

The Intelliserv network represents the largest research and development project under way within the company with a tab in excess of $50 million to date. The crux of the technology revolves around ...

19 October 2006 Houston-based services outfit Weatherford International has successfully run the world's first electromagnetic logging while drilling (EM-LWD) triple combo operation with extended ...