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 ...

Shell UK Exploration & Production, an operating unit of Royal Dutch/Shell Group, used an electromagnetic measurement-while-drilling (EM-MWD) tool to transmit downhole-measured data during drilling ...

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, ...