Drilling Night - 1. Distinguished Lecturer Program with L.W. Ledgerwood III and 2. Tomax, Nils Reimers

An Extra 45 Minutes Can Provide a World of Knowledge

SPE Bergen Section would like to invite you to the TechNight with SPE Distinguished Lecturer at Nøsteboden! This is a great chance for you to keep yourself updated on latest technologies in the market and to meet your industry colleagues during the dinner after the presentations.

1. Distinguished Lecture L.W. (Roy) Ledgerwood III (BHGE) : Solving the Mystery of Low Rate of Penetration in Deep Wells

Rocks deep in the earth have unique and enigmatic material properties due to the confining pressures in the earth. Confining pressure increases rock strength and changes rock from a brittle to a ductile material. Humans tend to think of rock as brittle, since all of our direct experience with rock is at atmospheric pressure. But as wells were drilled deeper into the earth, it became apparent that the rock drilled in oilfield wells yiel…